"Oliver Glasner's 10-Minute Rant: A Fiery Critique of the Board Following Sunderland Defeat"

OLIVER GLASNER launched a scathing attack on Steve Parish and the Crystal Palace board – accusing them of “abandoning” him and his squad.

The Austrian used Friday’s press conference to drop the

Oliver Glasner launched a scathing attack on the Crystal Palace boardCredit: Getty Palace lost 2-1 to Sunderland on SaturdayCredit: Reuters

And after the , making it ten games without a win, he unleashed a ten-minute rant at Palace chiefs.

Here’s the 51-year-old’s full explosive post-game press conference in full…

Reporter: Hello. Another disappointing defeat, 10 games without a win now. What did you make of the performance?

Oliver Glasner: “I’ve done already a few interviews, so… I think the players did for 50-60 minutes well. They played well, it was quite even.

“Then we were 15-20 minutes under pressure, they took the lead and then we tried everything to get back into the game, but we couldn’t support them from the bench and that’s how it feels now.

“I think the players left their heart on the pitch, and on the other side, if your heart gets torn out twice in a season, one day before a game, once with Eze in summer, with Guehi now, it’s tough to survive and that’s how it feels right now.

“We feel that we are being abandoned, no support. We’re playing with 12, 13 players for weeks now and the bench just kids, you know, they’ve never played in a stadium, in an atmosphere like this and then I see the players, everybody is disappointed.

“Why I’m saying this is not to protect myself, I don’t care about me, but they need to be protected because they’re leaving their heart and we made no substitution because it would have been unfair and that’s why we are where we are.

“We have a few players who played their 35th game now, so you would need support, this group of players would need support and that’s how it feels today.”

Reporter: You mentioned that you made no substitutions in the game today.

2-1 down, maybe typically you’d expect an attacking substitution from the bench, even though they were younger players on the bench.

Would it not have been better to have brought one of the attacking talents on for a defender and just gone for the game?

Oliver Glasner: “No. No. I see them in training. So I think George Thomas wouldn’t be the right one, and I think Uche had his chances a few times. I felt these players can do it in a better way now, so it didn’t work.

“And this again, it’s just a situation where we are in, you know this for weeks, for months now, and what are we doing?

“We’re selling our captain one day before a game. One day before a game, the first time I heard about it was 10:30 yesterday.

“All the set plays, everything, was prepared. We had to change everything. Nobody told us, but then I have to stand in front of the group and telling them why our captain doesn’t play tomorrow.

“So then lifting the mood again, I think they did it well for all the circumstances and when I see them how hard they are working, that’s why I’m so direct today because I feel I have to protect them.

“I see them every single day and that makes it so disappointing because it’s not so easy to play here, many teams have experienced and therefore, I think for 50-60 minutes the performance was really, really well, but at the end, of course, it’s frustrating.”

Marc Guehi is set to join Man City in a £20m dealCredit: Getty Glasner hit out at Palace chairman Steve Parish during his rantCredit: Splash

Reporter: You’re being direct publicly and we appreciate your honesty. Is it difficult to be direct internally at the club, going to the…

Oliver Glasner: “No. No. We mention this often, you know? We know the situation where we’re in. We’re talking about things.

“For me, it feels ‘we have enough points and these few points we will get to not get relegated’, it’s all fine.

“That’s how it feels right now, but I know these players, they’re not happy and satisfied with this and that, that makes it tough tonight.”

Reporter: You used the word ‘abandoned’. Is that something that’s come up with the players in the dressing room as well? Have they almost shared that with you?

Oliver Glasner: “I don’t tell you what we’re talking about in the dressing room, but again, I’m the manager, I’m responsible and I feel I can’t blame anybody.

“I can’t see any tactical issue today but I know the things what’s going on here. I know it.

“I know that J-P (Mateta) had a training on Wednesday and he couldn’t train on Thursday because the knee was too swollen and today he has to play 95 minutes against a very physical team here in this stadium.

“This is what I mean, we need support. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it for weeks, for months!”

Glasner has called for more protection after he said Jean-Philippe Mateta played through an injury against SunderlandCredit: PA

Reporter: How do you move forward from here? How do you get this support that you so desperately need?

Oliver Glasner: “I don’t need any support. is fine, to end the season like this, with Oliver Glasner, with another manager, I don’t know, I don’t care, but and they’re fine with this, okay they can do it.

“If they want to play a more successful season, for me it feels we just wait until all the players are back, it will be okay with 42 points at the end, it’s all good, it’s fine, but it’s not how we are acting. It’s just my feeling.”

Reporter: Oliver, how great is your frustration at this moment and is your position, can you stay at the football club when you are this unhappy until the end of the season?

Oliver Glasner: “Yes, because the players deserve it. The players and the fans deserve it 100 percent, so for me, it’s an honour to fight with these players to get the results back again.

“It’s not that we are far away from getting a point or winning, but they deserve Oliver Glasner to be their leader and this is for me and also to protect them.

“Then I have to say it in public because just saying it behind closed doors obviously makes no sense and this is maybe the last try that things get done that have to get done, and not for Oliver Glasner.

“Again, it’s for Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace sold within the last 18 months, since when I arrived and watched the team and you will agree, you know?

“The best four players before I arrived: , Eze, and the two centre-backs with (Joachim) Andersen and the most experienced one, . They have gone now.

“That’s tough for every club in the world. For every club! So and then to think, okay, we sold last year and they got it done, they played the best season and they won the , it’s all good, and we can continue doing like this, you know, you will get the bill. You will get the bill.

“Not Oliver Glasner will get the bill. No, Crystal Palace will get it. If you’re fine with it, continue.”

Palace won the FA Cup under Glasner last seasonCredit: Getty

Reporter: How big a failure of management was it to tell you yesterday morning that Marc, the day before a game, that Marc Guehi was leaving?

Oliver Glasner: “It’s the worst thing you can have, you know?

“The first training week since September, preparing, and again, with our players from the academy, we were, and Jadon Rear after one year back, we were 16 players yesterday in training.

“And we prepared the week before, first training, and then yesterday at 10:30 I get told everything, the set plays, were ready for Marc Guehi.

“We trained set pieces during the week with Marc Guéhi, so I think the negotiations didn’t start at 10! I had to be told at 10:30, and I didn’t want to say anything yesterday, but today I feel because not all, again, I have to protect the players. I have to protect them.”

Reporter: You have difficult games coming up with and and Brighton. Do you have enough points not to be in a relegation fight?

Oliver Glasner: “Again, of course, we need a few more, and again, I think Daniel Muñoz and will come back next week, and will give us a little bit more options.

“Nobody else it looks like, and again, now we’ve lost the captain, so he won’t be available, and even this was not so surprising, you know, and then it felt in summer, no I stopped it, no I didn’t stop it, I can’t stop any transfer.

“Just can give my opinion and my advice and this is what I’m doing and the club takes the decision.”

Reporter: Sorry, last one. Do you expect a reaction from those in charge of the club at what you’ve just said here to us?

Oliver Glasner: “I don’t know. It’s their club.”

Reporter: Do you regret the decision to tell the players yesterday that you’re going to be leaving in the summer?

Oliver Glasner: “Why should I?”