Oliver Glasner on talks with Crystal Palace owner, duo’s return and Mateta’s future

Oliver Glasner revealed he has held clear their air talks with Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish after his comments following the defeat to Sunderland last week.

Glasner, who has already confirmed he will be leaving Palace at the end of the season, said he felt “abandoned completely” following the decision to sell Marc Guehi before the game.

But the Austrian says he is committed to seeing out the remainder of the campaign with the Eagles.

“I had a very long dinner with Steve [Parish] this week, and we talked about this situation, not to sell Marc, it’s the timing and the possible replacement, and this was the situation I wanted to explain, and it was a very good talk for both of us,” Glasner said.

“But nothing changed, what I told at the press conference before the Sunderland game, when I said I will give my best to play a great season, and Steve and me we are 100 per cent committed still, that we will do our best to have a great rest of the season, a great four months together. This is what we all want, and I know the club is now very hardworking to do the right things.

“It’s not so easy in January, finding the right centre-back…but in this particular moment it felt like we could have done better for the success of the team, for the success of Crystal Palace.

“This is everybody who is in a relationship, and this is how I feel it. It was a thunderstorm, but always after a thunderstorm the sun is shining, and it started to shine on Wednesday when we started to train again.”

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Asked if he regrets the comments, Glasner said: “No, I don’t regret. Do I think it was the best way? No, I don’t think so, but that’s Oliver Glasner.

“I think it’s maybe also a part of what we achieved together, that emotion, this helps to create a spirit, a togetherness, a belief. But sometimes maybe it’s not the best possible way, but that’s me. I don’t say I’m perfect – I would like to be, but on the other side, I never attacked anyone personally, I just explained my feelings about this situation.

“I had the feeling in this particular game, we all together could have done better. And then, maybe, I can’t prove it, maybe we wouldn’t have lost. And this was my feeling after the game. And I always expect from myself, I expect from the players, I expect from the club, that we give 100 per cent for the success of Palace.

“And in this moment, I think, again, we could have done better, and this is what I wanted to express.

“I don’t regret it, because I know how I am and who I am. But on the other side, I know that it was not maybe the perfect and right moment. I was asked, do you think this could happen again? I said yes, because that’s how I am.”

Palace are set to be boosted by the returns of Daniel Munoz from injury and Ismaila Sarr from the Africa Cup of Nations this weekend.

Jean-Philippe Mateta will also play despite uncertainty around his future.

“He didn’t hand a transfer request and we have received no bid right now,” Glasner said.

“Every player there is a price where a club says, okay, evaluating the whole situation – age, contract duration – and a price where the club agrees to a deal. But again there’s no bid come in and he hasn’t handed in a transfer request, so he will play on Sunday.”