Oliver Glasner has insisted he is not concerned by Crystal Palace’s poor track record of hiring managers from overseas but admitted that taking over from Roy Hodgson during the middle of the season had come as a surprise.
Glasner’s arrival was confirmed this week after Hodgson stepped aside, with the Austrian becoming the fourth foreign manager in Palace’s history after Attilio Lombardo, Frank de Boer and Patrick Vieira. Vieira lasted almost two years before being replaced by Hodgson last March, but Palace were relegated during Lombardo’s spell as caretaker player-manager in 1998 and De Boer was sacked and replaced by Hodgson in 2017 after losing his first four league games.
