Oliver Glasner needs Hakon Arnar Haraldsson at Crystal Palace. Photograph by Julian Finney/Getty Pictures
Though he isn’t that well-known a reputation on English shores, Hakon Arnar Haraldsson is definitely making waves for Lille in Ligue Un.
The 21-year-old, valued at simply €9m by transfermarkt, is being courted by Crystal Palace in line with Soccer Transfers.
They’d seem like going through stiff competitors to land the midfielder with Tottenham additionally having despatched scouts to observe the teenager, who’s thought-about to be the long-term substitute for Heung-min Son.
Oliver Glasner needs to signal Hakon Arnar Haraldsson
It’s Palace that seem like the entrance runners, nevertheless, and that can increase Oliver Glasner as stress builds on the Austrian after an horrendous run of outcomes.
After seven Premier League video games, the Eagles are third from backside of the English top-flight and and not using a win to their identify.
Their subsequent 5 league matches are towards Nottingham Forest, Tottenham Hotspur, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Fulham and Aston Villa, and if Glasner hasn’t managed to tug them out of their spiral, the subsequent worldwide break may be an opportune time to sever relations with him.
That may give any new man in cost roughly six weeks earlier than the switch window opens in January to evaluate the relative deserves of the squad, and nonetheless maybe herald Haraldsson who earns simply £16,000 per week at Lille (Capology).
Given the profile of some Palace gamers – Guehi, Eze and many others. – it’s a surprise that the Selhurst Park outfit discover themselves of their present predicament.
It mirrors the ultimate weeks of Patrick Vieira and Roy Hodgson’s tenures on the membership and factors the finger squarely on the participant squad.
Whether or not Glasner has the clout to have the ability to go to chairman, Steve Parish, and demand a root and department filter much like that which Chelsea have undertaken just lately is unlikely, but when he falls on his sword as his predecessors have finished, questions must be requested.
