Glasner on his future, not being 'good enough' and 'reality'
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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Premier League game against Wolves at Selhurst Park (kick-off 14:00 GMT).
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Here are the key lines from his news conference:
- The Austrian was asked if he will remain in charge until the end of the season and said: "I always said, and this wasn't the first press conference where I could just repeat myself. As I said, eventually you always depend on your players, and they will get all the support like always, and then we will see."
- On whether he wants to stay at Selhurst Park until the summer, Glasner said: "Let's see what the future brings, you never know."
- On if he has the drive to lead the club: "Yes, I think so, yes."
- Glasner offered more on his position, stating: "In football, it's easy. As a manager, you will stay or be allowed to stay when the results are OK. Football is all about this and the last months, the results were not good. The performances were not consistently good and that's it."
- On Palace's current form: "I'm always realistic, and we're not in the best moment right now. And to be honest, I understand, and I take responsibility for everything because I'm responsible for the whole team."
- He added: "And right now, I'm just not good enough to replace the players we sold. I'm just not good enough to integrate the new players in a way to play the same way like we did, and I'm not good enough that we can cope with the schedule we had."
- On what his team accomplished last year: "On the other side, I was good enough to play the best season ever, win two trophies and also to look back 32 points after 26 games - I look back because I like to look back sometimes - Crystal Palace has been better twice. Once was our season last year, and once in 2021. Never before it was more or less between 25 and 29 points all the time."
- He also believes that even now when everybody is "completely angry, disappointed, frustrated", his Palace side is "playing a better Premier League season than eight of the last 10 seasons". Glasner added: "We play European football, and that is the reality."
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