{"id":474552,"date":"2026-06-13T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474552\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:13:08","slug":"pierre-sage-crystal-palace-close-in-on-appointment-of-frenchman-as-new-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474552\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Sage: Crystal Palace close in on appointment of Frenchman as new boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace<\/a> are close to finalising a deal for Lens manager Pierre Sage to become their new head coach.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport previously reported that Palace were in talks<\/a> with the 47-year-old Frenchman as they look to replace Oliver Glasner, who left the Premier League club at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

Palace are now putting the finishing touches on a financial package that will accelerate his departure from the French club to take the reins in south London.<\/p>\n

Sage joined Lens 12 months ago and led them to a second-place finish in Ligue 1 and the club’s first Coupe de France triumph in their 120-year history.<\/p>\n

Palace had been keen on a move for former Bournemouth<\/a> boss Andoni Iraola but he signed a two-year deal with Liverpool<\/a> earlier this month. <\/p>\n

The Eagles also discussed Coventry manager Frank Lampard, former Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna and ex-Burnley<\/a>, Nottingham Forest<\/a> and Everton<\/a> head coach Sean Dyche as alternative options.<\/p>\n

However, Sage’s style of football is likely to appeal to supporters and the Frenchman’s English is also understood to be at a good level which will not hinder him once he arrives at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n

Palace’s Uefa Conference League triump means they will play Europa League football next season, but they face a tricky summer ahead.<\/p>\n

The future of France forward Jean-Philippe Mateta yet to be resolved as he enters the final year of his contract and England midfielder Adam Wharton has linked with several other Premier League clubs.<\/p>\n

Palace have also offered a new deal to midfielder Daichi Kamada with the Japan international’s deal expiring at the end of the last campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace are close to finalising a deal for Lens manager Pierre Sage to become their new head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-474552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}