Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner is more likely to move to Tottenham Hotspur than return to Germany with RB Leipzig this summer.
That’s according to BILD, who report that while Leipzig have held ‘concrete negotiations’ with Glasner, there is competition from Tottenham.
The newspaper covers several teams in the Bundesliga who are on the hunt for new managers after something of a wave of sackings in Germany.
Leipzig are one of them after sacking Marco Rose five weeks ago. Zsolt Löw, who is the club’s “Head of Development Soccer”, has been placed in charge until the end of the season.
The German club have been working on candidates since sacking Rose and Crystal Palace manager Glasner has been at the top of that list consistently. BILD report that they’ve held ‘concrete negotiations’ with him and Como’s Cesc Fabregas.
Both are still under contract at their clubs and there is competition for them too, with Bayer Leverkusen keen on Fabregas and Tottenham said to be in for Glasner. If both were to fall through, candidates such as Danny Röhl or Roger Schmidt will move up the pecking order.
BILD very much present it as that being the case, with Tottenham seen as a likelier destination for Glasner if they seriously move for him.
Plenty of dominoes have to fall before that happens, of course, but the white flag already appears to be moving up the flagpole in Leipzig on that particular one. Not that that will make Crystal Palace fans any happier.
