Following Manchester United's defeat to Brentford and his Crystal Palace side beating Liverpool, Oliver Glasner has been asked for his opinion on the rumours linking him with Old Trafford. Ruben Amorim has continued to struggle in 2025-26, even after having the benefit of a full pre-season and transfer window to better imprint his ideas on the squad.
Glasner goes 18 games unbeaten
Glasner is hot property right now. The 51-year-old took Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory in 2021-22, before being appointed by Palace in 2024. He then delivered the club's first ever major trophy last season, beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final.
This season, Palace are the only team in the top four divisions of English football yet to lose a game in any competition – thanks to inflicting Liverpool's first loss of 2025-26 on Saturday – and are on an 18-game unbeaten streak that stretches back to last April.
That's even with Palace losing talisman Eberechi Eze to Arsenal and having to deal with the distraction of Marc Guehi's uncertain future and the challenges from that.
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Ahead of facing Brentford, talk was about United aiming to win consecutive Premier League games for the first time since Amorim took charge 11 months ago. Instead, his team found themselves 2-0 down inside the opening 20 minutes and fell to a fourth defeat (including the penalty shootout against Grimsby Town) from seven games across all competitions this season.
The goodwill that Amorim was able to fall back on during his first campaign in the job – due to implementing a brand new style and having to work with solely inherited players – is fast running out. His rigid loyalty to a 3-4-2-1 system that the United squad are clearly struggling to get to grips with is bringing increased scrutiny and criticism of his overall managerial ability.
It has been reported that co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who has final say on sporting decisions, is "refusing to panic", but it's difficult to envisage Amorim having limitless leeway if results continue as they have been.
Glasner not ruling anything out
Glasner has taken questions from the Austrian edition of Kicker, during which the subject of Manchester United 'in the short-term' was brought up.
The Palace boss stayed diplomatic and didn't rule anything out, suggesting that he knows what is being said and reported, but that rumours is all anything is for the time being.
"I follow all the rumours – and that's all there is – neutrally and completely relaxed. Focusing on the daily work with my players and coaches, and trying to enjoy it as much as possible," he said.
Could Crystal Palace qualify for the Champions League?
Glasner has already taken Palace into Europe for the first time in their history – controversially the Conference League rather than the Europa League – and given their form in the early months of 2025-26 there is already talk of going one better.
Palace sit third in the Premier League table as it stands, mirroring Nottingham Forest for much of last season until falling away in the final stretch and missing out on the Champions League.
Asked if Palace could be competing in next season's Champions League, Glasner replied: "We're not worried about the final standings at the moment. I'm very down-to-earth and don't forget that last season we had the worst Premier League start in Palace's history, which ended with a record points haul."
