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Crystal Palace are considering sacking manager Oliver Glasner.

Sky Sports News Palace chairman Steve Parish is understood to have been upset and angered by the Austrian’s comments following Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Sunderland, where Glasner criticized the club’s board, saying “we feel like we’ve been completely abandoned”.

Glasner confirmed on Friday that he will leave Selhurst Park once his contract is up in the summer, but Parish have a choice to let him see out the final four months or sack him now.

Upcoming sales by Marc Guehi for Manchester City it looks like it could be the last straw in the ever-deteriorating relationship between manager and chairman.

“To sell our captain one day before the game – there is no understanding of this,” Glasner said on Saturday.

But Palace felt they had no choice but to sell Guehi rather than risk losing £20m if the defender left on a free at the end of the season. And the club are adamant they will follow Glasner’s wishes in the last transfer window, when they pulled out of a deal to sell him to Liverpool on deadline day.

From Parish’s point of view, every decision he makes is what he believes is right for the long-term stability and future of Crystal Palace. Whether Glasner remains a part of those plans will likely be determined soon.

An angry Glasner speaks in sections

After the loss to Sunderland, Glasner felt his players were “abandoned” without “support”.

A tumultuous week saw the Eagles crash out of the FA Cup to non-league Macclesfield in the third round, with Glasner confirming his departure at the end of the season, and defender Guehi set to leave.

Palace lost 2-1 against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light – their 10th game in a row in all competitions without a win.

Glasner did not replace the game, saying he was trying to protect his players and asked for more support.

He told Sky Sports: “The players gave everything they could. We didn’t change – look at the bench, there are only kids.

“We feel like we have been completely abandoned. To sell our captain one day before the game – there is no understanding of this.

“We are preparing and it was yesterday [Friday]I am told that our captain will be sold, but why not next week? At least he can play this game and next week the other players will come back. It really annoys me.

“If your heart is removed twice a year, with [Eberechi] He came one day before the game in the summer and your captain one day before the game – I have no understanding.

“I’ve been in football for 30 years and I’ve never had to deal with this, not even once. Now it’s happening twice in six or seven months. That’s where we are now.

“We have been playing for weeks now with 12 or 13 players in our team. Some players have played their 35th game now.

“For 50 or 60 minutes we played well here and for 15 or 20 minutes, we were under pressure and conceded a goal. The players tried everything but again I failed to give them support from the bench and it made it very difficult.

“The players left their hearts on the field, they fought. It’s not very easy to play here and in every situation, the team did very well. But again, we don’t feel supported.

“I heard yesterday at 10.30 in the morning that we are selling Marc. I think the negotiations lasted for a few days so no one was going to call at 10 in the morning and at 10.30 everything was agreed.

“Then we have to deal with it. One day before the game, we have to come to Sunderland, where we know that we are not at the top level. We know the situations where there are no players and we sell our captain.

“No team can do this. Other teams, the players play and the next day they leave and we sell the day before?”

When asked if he would see out the season, Glasner replied dismissively: “I don’t know. I’ve always had a lot of respect for this group of players.”

“I trust them completely. Their character is unique and we will fight and evolve. I will not back down because these players deserve Oliver Glasner as their manager and leader and this is what I will do.

“Sometimes it helps if we get a little support.”

Glasner continues to rant in the postgame press conference

Glasner continued his rant in the post-game press conference.

He explained: “For me, it feels like, ‘oh we have enough points so we don’t get relegated and that’s fine’. But these players are not happy and satisfied with this. That makes it difficult tonight.

“If Crystal Palace goes well with finishing the season like this, with Oliver Glasner, with another manager, I don’t know, I don’t care, but if they go well with this, that’s fine, they can do it.

“If they want to have a successful season… to me, it feels like, ‘when all the players are back, we’ll be good, we’ll get 42 points, everything’s good’, but that’s not how we do it. It’s just my feeling.

“In order to protect them, I have to say it in public because just saying it behind closed doors doesn’t make sense.”

Glasner also hinted that his comments are a last ditch effort to try to improve the club’s situation, adding: “Maybe it’s a last ditch effort to make things happen that need to be done. Not Oliver Glasner, from Crystal Palace.

“The top four players before we arrived – [Michael] Olise, [Eberechi] Eze and two defenders, [Joachim] Andersen and [Marc] Guehi – they are gone now. It is difficult for all clubs.

“And then I think, ‘Okay, we sold them last year and they did it, they had their best season ever, they won the FA Cup, it’s all good. We can keep doing it like this’,” he will foot the bill.

“Oliver Glasner won’t foot the bill, Crystal Palace will. If you’re OK with it, go ahead.”

Sherwood: Glasner wants out now

Tim Sherwood to Football Saturday:

“When your manager says you’re leaving, how does that feel in the team? It works both ways. The defense. Now they’re losing games.

“If he takes the Palace job, he knows what he’s going to get. He develops players and sells them. That’s a selling club.

“He wants to leave that club as soon as possible. He wants out of the club and he wants out now.”