“You do not talk about eggs before the chicken is put.”
Football managers forever find innovative ways to transform questions and manage expectations – Oliver Glasner, President of Crystal Palace, presented this extraordinary answer when asked about the possibility of winning the first big cup of the club.
The 50 -year -old Austrian, facing the Manchester City team in the FA Cup final on Saturday (16:30 GMT) led his team to the edge of history.
Palace will qualify for Europe if they win Wembley, and they need only one point of their last match to set the best outcome of the club's Premier League.
It is easy to forget that they did not win the league match until October 27 – their ninth match for this season – where pressure was built around the club.
But Palace has scored since his victory over Tottenham Hotspur on that day is the sixth better in the section, behind Liverpool, Newcastle only, Arsenal, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest.
This is their great shape that Boss Glasner has been linked to the moves to RB Leipzig and Spurs, who were beaten twice from the palace this season.
The Austrian team turned the team of South London into a force to which its account has been calculated since it was replaced by Roy Hodgson in February 2024-and it is proud of the highest score for each game (1.49) from any palace president in the English Premier League era.
When Glasner arrived, energy and enthusiasm had a great influence on SELHURST Park, providing a big boost to the players.
Palace ended last season with six wins from seven wins, but the momentum was lost during the crowded summer, as the star Michael Oliz's player joined Bayern Munich, seven players reached the main championship finals and four new signatures on the day of transportation at the end of August.
This means that the essence of the Glasner team did not have the pre -season – out of idealism given that the eagles leader demands the levels of fitness from his team to implement the high energy tactics he loves.
Now that they settled and sharpened, the palace is a completely different proposal.
“I am very happy,” Glasner told BBC Sport. “Not only with improvements, but I think with the environment that we created here on training land as well as in the club.
“We are very ambitious, everyone is working hard to progress, which is the main reason why we are now at the end of the season.
“We really settled in the middle of the table and look at the difference in front of us more than looking at the teams behind us.
“We are also playing the FA Cup final and we are inspired by what happened in the last 15-16 months.”
