{"id":669909,"date":"2026-05-28T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669909\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:29:08","slug":"crystal-palace-wait-on-andoni-iraola-with-frank-lampard-among-plan-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669909\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace wait on Andoni Iraola with Frank Lampard among plan Bs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As BBC Sport revealed earlier this month<\/a>, Iraola is the man Palace want to replace the outgoing Oliver Glasner, who insisted after the triumph in Germany he has no plans to reverse his decision.<\/p>\n

They have made the Spaniard a proposal and are awaiting his answer, within that are assurances he will be permitted significant influence over the recruitment operation.<\/p>\n

It is understood Palace want an answer by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n

The move is ambitious. Iraola has emerged as one of the brightest managers in European football – Bournemouth<\/a>‘s qualification for next season’s Europa League illustrative of his impressive body of work.<\/p>\n

“We have got a taste for it now, we want to keep it going,” said owner Steve Parish following the win over Rayo Vallecano.<\/p>\n

“We have gone up a level and we have got to try and stay there. We will have a week to celebrate and then work hard in the summer.”<\/p>\n

Palace believe they have done all they can to convince Iraola they can provide the platform for him to continue building his reputation.<\/p>\n

All that is left is Iraola’s approval.<\/p>\n

If the 43-year-old declines then Palace will move on to plan B.<\/p>\n

Among the alternatives is understood to be Frank Lampard, who has key admirers in the Palace boardroom.<\/p>\n

Releasing Lampard from his contract with Coventry provides an obvious stumbling block should Palace pivot to the former Chelsea<\/a> midfielder.<\/p>\n

But there is some optimism at Palace that Lampard, who is aware of the Eagles’ interest in him, would be open to joining before next season.<\/p>\n

Kieran McKenna, Pierre Sage, Sean Dyche and Thomas Frank have also been discussed as options.<\/p>\n

Luring Iraola to Selhurst Park would represent a coup, but the fact he has taken so long to decide has led to a degree of scepticism inside Palace over whether the now-departed Bournemouth<\/a> head coach is prepared to accept.<\/p>\n

Much will become clearer in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As BBC Sport revealed earlier this month, Iraola is the man Palace want to replace the outgoing Oliver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-669909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}