Oliver Glasner’s price tag at Crystal Palace is likely to prevent RB Leipzig from trying to hire him this summer.
That’s according to BILD, who report that the 50-year-old ‘remains a close candidate’ for the German club but unlikely to be someone they target.
The newspaper reports that the manager search is very much underway for Leipzig after they sacked Marco Rose on Sunday.
Sports director Marcel Schäfer is leading the hunt and coordinating closely with Jurgen Klopp, who is head of Global Soccer at Red Bull, and technical director Mario Gomez.
They already have a shortlist of various coaches they are working through, and Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner is on it.
BILD, though, report that he is ‘very happy’ in England and this moment in time and not considering leaving at this moment in time. Reports that the German club met him at a secret meeting are also wide of the mark. Indeed, Schäfer outright denied those claims this week.
The big block for Glasner is his asking price, with Bayern already seeing an €18m approach rejected last year. Crystal Palace quoted them €80m for the Austrian coach.
Reports over the last week have insisted that Glasner now has a release clause in his contract at Selhurst Park, but there’s been no figure put on that.
It is unlikely to be €80m but regardless, it may be too much for Leipzig, who’d also have to convince him to leave the Premier League.
That should come as good news for Crystal Palace fans, who are surely worried at this point as the reports about Leipzig continue to mount and threaten the good thing, they’ve got going under Glasner.
