Glasner Reaches Breaking Point at Palace: "I Don't Care" If He's Sacked After Guehi Sale

Oliver Glasner has had enough. The Crystal Palace manager made no attempt to hide his fury when addressing the press following his side's 2-1 reversal at Sunderland, a result that capped off a truly dreadful week at Selhurst Park.

Between an embarrassing FA Cup exit to Macclesfield and the bombshell announcement that captain Marc Guehi is joining Manchester City for £20m, Glasner served notice that he believes his employers have fundamentally let him and his players down.

The Austrian's exasperation was palpable. Asked whether he could envisage himself still at Palace come summer, Glasner's response was telling: "Crystal Palace are fine to end the season like this — with Oliver Glasner, with another manager, I don't know, I don't care."

The timing of Guehi's departure proved the final straw. Learning at 10:30am that his captain was being sold, mere hours before the trip to the Stadium of Light, left Glasner genuinely baffled at the club's decision-making.

"The players gave everything they could – look at the bench, just kids," he said. "We feel we're being abandoned, selling our captain one day before a game. No understanding of this. Yesterday I got told at 10.30am he's being sold, why not next week? It makes me really upset."

This is the second major loss in six months for Palace supporters to stomach. Eberechi Eze, the hero of last season's FA Cup final run, departed for Arsenal in the summer, also with minimal notice before a fixture. The pattern has left Glasner genuinely bewildered.

"If your heart gets torn out twice a year, with Eze one day before a game in the summer. Now your captain one day before a game. I have no understanding," Glasner continued. "I've been in football almost 30 years, I've never experienced this once and now it happens twice in six or seven months."

The 51-year-old was adamant that no other club operates in such a manner. "No [other] team would do this," he insisted. "I've seen other teams, players play and then the next day they're leaving. But we're selling the day before?"

With Palace already struggling for form and short on available personnel, the loss of their skipper represents yet another blow to their season. Glasner's resignation to his fate suggests that patience with the club's hierarchy has finally run dry.