Crystal Palace sack manager Pierre Sage after 16 games

Crystal Palace parted company with manager Pierre Sage on Thursday, 12 November, the Premier League club said. The Frenchman was in charge for just 16 games in all competitions.

Palace are bottom of the table after 10 rounds with seven points and only two wins. Before the international break they lost at home to Liverpool on Sunday, their fourth league defeat in a row. In the Europa League they have won one of their four matches.

Following Glasner

Sage joined in June from the French club Lens, where, according to ESPN, he finished second in Ligue 1 and won the Coupe de France. He had earlier managed Lyon. At Palace he replaced Austrian Oliver Glasner, who won the FA Cup, the Community Shield and the UEFA Conference League with the club in two years.

Three of Sage’s assistants, Jamal Alioui, Damien Della Santa and Sandy Guichard, have also left. In a statement Palace thanked the coaching staff and said an update on the appointment of a new manager would be provided “in due course”.

Who comes next

The club have not yet named a replacement. The Standard, a London newspaper, reported that Palace are in talks with Thomas Frank, the Danish former Brentford and Tottenham Hotspur manager.

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