Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish is confident he can keep his FA Cup winning manager Oliver Glasner out of the clutches of big clubs this summer.
With London rivals such as Tottenham likely to be looking for a new coach over the coming weeks, Glasner’s stock continues to rise.
But after watching the Austrian guide Palace to a 1-0 win over Manchester City at Wembley on Saturday, Parish was bullish about the future.
‘Look, he will stay here for some period of time,’ said the Palace chairman.
‘He’ll be here next year and then we’ll take it from there.
‘Of course I want him to stay longer but things happen in football and clubs evolve and move on.
‘I’d love him to stay but the club’s got to develop behind him, and the club has to show the ambition in terms of what we want to do to move it forward, for people to feel part of something.’
Glasner joined Palace last season and has a contract until the summer of 2026.
Asked if he planned to offer the 50-year-old a new deal, Parish added: ‘We’ve been talking about it.
‘For Oliver, it’s not about the things that maybe people think it’s about.
‘Oliver wants to be part of something that’s going in a direction, same with all of us.
‘I think that’s what we’ll talk about. I think obviously before finals it’s not a time for all of that. After finals is probably not a time for that.
‘But somewhere down the track we’ll have a conversation and see what we all feel.
‘Oliver will be here next year. Everybody knows length of his contract. Beyond that we’ll have to talk. It needs to be right for everybody.’
Palace won the Cup thanks to a goal from Eberechi Eze and a penalty save from Dean Henderson.
England goalkeeper Henderson said: ‘He's phenomenal. He's fantastic. This guy is a different class.
‘When we were struggling at the start of the season, he was quite easy on us.
‘The better we actually do, the harder he is on us.
‘He was hard on us this week, demanding of us because we've been in good form.
‘He knows how to treat his lads and you know what, he's phenomenal.
‘When I signed the chairman spoke to me about a team that he wanted to put another stand on beside the stadium. He needs the players to build that stand and we've now got the manager to build that stand.’