Pierre Sage: New Crystal Palace manager out to achieve the same as Oliver Glasner after appointment is confirmed

Crystal Palace person confirmed the assignment of Pierre Sage arsenic their caller manager.

The 47-year-old has enactment pen to insubstantial connected a three-year declaration astatine Selhurst Park, pending confirmation of his visa, and volition win Oliver Glasner who departed astatine the extremity of the 2025-26 campaign.

Glasner steered Palace to FA Cup glory and the Community Shield successful 2025 earlier guiding the nine to their archetypal ever European trophy past month, winning the Conference League last 1-0 against Rayo Vallecano.

Sage besides celebrated silverware past season, arsenic helium helped Lens to their archetypal Coupe de France triumph successful their 120-year history.

Last season’s Ligue 1 Manager of the Year besides led Lens to an awesome second-placed decorativeness successful the French top- light, securing Champions League shot for the club, but helium is present acceptable to instrumentality connected a caller situation successful the Premier League with Crystal Palace.

Sage: ‘I person to bash the aforesaid arsenic Glasner’

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“It’s astonishing to beryllium present astatine Crystal Palace,” Sage told the club’s authoritative website. “I americium excited by the past of the club, and by caller seasons. Oliver Glasner achieved immoderate astonishing things, and present I person to bash the same. That’s wherefore we travel present with a batch of ambition.

“The dynamic present is truly positive, and we are successful this mindset too. We won past twelvemonth – and we privation to proceed successful this way, successful a caller club, a caller project, but with a batch of winning habits.

“We privation to springiness our champion each time for the team, for the club, for the people, and particularly for the fans, due to the fact that erstwhile you emotion a nine successful England, it’s for each your life.

“We privation to springiness the fans what they want. We privation to marque the fans smile, to beryllium arrogant of the team, and to beryllium arrogant of the nine – truthful we volition springiness our champion for you, and we are together.”

Chairman Steve Parish added: “I americium tremendously excited to invited Pierre, who joins america disconnected the backmost of a trophy-winning play astatine Lens arsenic good arsenic a fabulous second-place decorativeness successful Ligue 1.

“As we determination into different European run disconnected the backmost of our occurrence successful Leipzig, I cognize helium volition springiness everything to people much occurrence for our fantastic Football Club.”

When could Sage marque Crystal Palace managerial debut?

Sage has departed Lens with a respectable 67.5% triumph complaint aft conscionable 1 play successful charge, gathering connected his erstwhile tenure astatine Lyon wherever helium secured 32 victories from 56 games implicit 2 years.

Several Crystal Palace fans volition beryllium encouraged by that grounds and the information that Sage has past playing a three-at-the-back strategy that Glasner utilized passim his tenure successful South London.

Wing-backs Daniel Munoz and Tyrick Mitchell are among those who person thrived successful this formation, and sticking with the aforesaid strategy volition forestall the request for drastic changes successful unit to beryllium made this summer.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Sage volition beryllium capable to transportation the likes of Adam Wharton and Jean-Philippe Mateta to enactment astatine Selhurst Park, though, with the second successful peculiar still apt to question pastures new aft wanting to permission successful January.

Born successful Lons-le-Saunier, Sage could marque his managerial debut for Crystal Palace successful a pre-season affable against Bromley astatine Hayes Lane connected July 25, unless different fixtures are scheduled earlier that date.