Breaking news :Glasner on tactical blueprint and palace ambition
Oliver Glasner says his Crystal Palace players have been working hard to implement his ideas as the manager’s reign gets underway with ambitions to take the club forward in his footballing style.
“We explained to them in which direction we want to go,” Glasner revealed of his early messages to the players. “That we want to increase the intensity of our game, we want to increase the speed of our attacking, we want to defend more aggressively in different areas of the pitch.
“This is what we explain to them. Nobody [complained]: ‘Now we have to run more, we have to run faster, we have to sprint so much’. It was: ‘OK, let’s try it, let’s do it’.
“In the first game [against Burnley], for example, the physical parameters were higher than in the games before, it has nothing to do with our training because in three days you don’t improve anything.
Glasner got off to a dream start at Selhurst Park, thrashing Burnley in south London to earn a much-needed three points – although he gave full credit to the players themselves.
“It was the players’ win, and it was the fans’ win, it’s because they were united from the first second,” he said. “Our impact I think is really small, but it was the confidence, the spirit of the team together with our fans.
“I think if you ask who is responsible and in this game, it’s the players and our fans, it’s nothing to do with us as a staff. Of course we support them as good as we can, but it’s the win.”
Glasner explained his footballing philosophy in detail, saying his ambitions were to get the best out of a talented squad at Palace before working further during pre-season.
“It’s always difficult to start during the season: you have some games left, the situation is how it is, you have not that much influence,” he explained. “Maybe that happens somewhere in pre-season over five, six, seven weeks, [where] there are changes in the team.
“But as I mentioned, the players are great characters. They are open-minded, they are listening, they also want to have some changes in the way of play and now it’s up to us that we get into them as fast as possible.
“I’m really looking forward to that and the whole team here in Crystal Palace, not just the players, the whole team, the whole club gives us this trust that we can work on it.
“I could feel and the first two weeks I am here, so everything goes into this direction that we want to improve, the players want to improve, the organisation wants to improve, wants to develop, the club wants to develop.
“We all have to work together because the Premier League is a really tough place to improve, but I can feel at the moment that we are all working very hard that we make it real.
“It’s our job that we get out 100 percent of any player and I’m just content and happy when we can reach it with any player. I also have to say that I’ve never reached it before, that we had 100 per cent of every single player in the squad, but that’s our job.
“[It’s our job] to work with the players, to talk with the players, to give them solutions. Sometimes it’s to kick them in the head, sometimes it’s to hug them!
“This is our job and this is why I like being a football coach, because you have to deal with human people, you have to deal with young boys, you have to deal with experienced players, but all great characters.
“Then we try to create this spirit in our team, that the players know we are all here to support them, but also we demand a lot of them.”
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