Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has held talks with Bundesliga giants RB Leipzig over a potential switch back to the Bundesliga this summer.The 50-year-old has a busy end to the season in south London as he prepares for the FA Cup final with the Eagles but has been touted as a candidate for RB Leipzig in recent weeks. The German outfit sacked head coach Marco Rose at the end of March with the team sixth in the table.Zsolt Low was appointed as interim boss but the club is still to make an announcement on the permanent replacement for Rose. Leipzig’s managing director for sport Marcel Schafer said: “We have believed in our co-operation with Marco and his team for a very long time and, up to now, tried everything to turn things around together.”Given the development and the continued lack of results, we’re all firmly convinced that we need new impetus for the remainder of the campaign in order to achieve our aims for the season.”RB Leipzig have held their position as sixth in the Bundesliga table and were involved in a dramatic 3-3 draw with Bayern Munich last weekend, which saw Harry Kane and co. having to wait a little longer to be confirmed as league champions. Leipzig are chasing Champions League qualification having featured in the tournament for the last three seasons. The club has been involved in European football every year since 2017.Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg has now provided an update on the team’s search for a new manager with Glasner still very much in the running. The Crystal Palace manager has emerged as a frontrunner alongside Arsenal legend Cesc FabregasTaking to social media platform X, Plettenberg wrote: “Oliver Glasner and Cesc Fabregas remain the two preferred candidates for RB Leipzig at this stage. Talks have taken place — there are no agreements yet, but also no rejections. In case both decline, there is a “Mister X” as a backup option.”Crystal Palace in contract talks with Glasner
Glasner is set to enter the last 12 months of his Crystal Palace contract this summer, having arrived at the club in February 2024. The BBC reported in March that the London outfit had opened talks over a new deal with Glasner.
The manager previously worked at Vfl Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany. He won the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022 and was a runner up in the DFB-Pokal in 2023.
Speaking after the FA Cup win over Aston Villa, Glasner told Laola: “I’m traveling to Austria now, then I’ll come back and prepare my team for the league match against Forest. We want to pick up a few more points in the Premier League and top off the season with a cup win.“I expect my players to keep quiet about it now. So that applies even more to me as a coach. I’m in constant communication with the club, including about my future. But that’s not really an issue right now.”
