Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish reportedly held a secret assembly with incoming supervisor Oliver Glasner in a London resort… however was noticed by gamers from an EFL membership.
Glasner is predicted to be named new Palace supervisor, however the scenario has been difficult by Roy Hodgson collapsing in coaching on Thursday.
The 76-year-old was rushed to hospital and the newest replace from the membership stated he was in a ‘secure situation’.
Parish is known to have travelled with Hodgson from Palace’s coaching base in Beckenham to hospital.
The Palace chairman is reported to have held a gathering with former Frankfurt boss Glasner within the Hilton Resort in Greenwich on Friday night time, in line with The Solar.
The pair have been reportedly noticed by gamers from the Sheffield Wednesday squad, who have been staying on the identical resort forward of their assembly with Millwall on Saturday at The Den.
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Glasner was then seen watching Tottenham tackle Wolves on the weekend, with Palace taking part in Spurs in two week’s time.
talkSPORT understands that it’s now a ready sport for Hodgson to announce that he can be stepping again from his duties.
The membership face Everton at Goodison Park on Monday in a crunch relegation conflict.
talkSPORT’s chief soccer correspondent Alex Criminal stated: “The expectation is now that Roy Hodgson will announce, in some unspecified time in the future, that he’s stepping again from his duties as Crystal Palace supervisor.
“That has partly been compelled upon him with the actual fact Palace have lined-up his successor in Oliver Glasner. It was not significantly delicate as he was within the crowd at Tottenham yesterday.
“There’s a query over the timing. Does Roy try this earlier than the sport in opposition to Everton on Monday night time? Or do his teaching workers, Paddy McCarthy and Ray Lewington, take that sport after which Glasner is available in.
“It’s a troublesome scenario for Palace from a PR perspective. There have been very worrying scenes when Roy was taken ailing at coaching in entrance of his gamers and training workers. Steve Parish accompanied Roy to hospital.
“The final replace we had from Palace was that he was in a secure situation. It’s not a very good search for a soccer membership to announce a brand new supervisor when the present incumbent is in his hospital mattress.
“They may do with out this case forward of such an enormous sport, as a result of in the event that they lose it then they’re solely two factors above the relegation zone.”