- A Premier League club placed an £86m compensation fee on their boss’s head
- Bayern Munich were unwilling to pay so much and saw a £15.5m offer rejected
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A Premier League club reportedly slapped an £86million compensation fee on their manager – four times the record ever paid – to swat away interest from Bayern Munich.
Bayern were willing to pay roughly £15.5m but this was snubbed by the club’s owner, despite the manager being keen on jetting off.
The Bundesliga giants are seeking a replacement for Thomas Tuchel, who is due to depart at the end of the season, as announced in February.
Their pursuit of a new manager has seen a deluge of rejection, seeing them snubbed by Xabi Alonso, Julian Nagelsmann, and Ralf Rangnick.
Hansi Flick and Roberto De Zerbi have emerged as the new frontrunners for the gig, with the objective of recovering the Bundesliga title after missing out for the first time since 2012-13.
A Premier League club reportedly demanded £86million in managerial compensation from Bayern Munich, who need to replace Thomas Tuchel
Palace slapped the ridiculous fee on Oliver Glasner, who has been at Selhurst Park for 12 games
Owner and chairman Steve Parish turned down Bayern’s offer of £15.5million
However, it is a different boss who they made they tried to get, only to be turned off by the staggering £86m fee, according to German newspaper BILD.
That man is Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner, who has been in South London for all of 12 games.
If you’re thinking £86m is a lot for a dugout general, you’d be right. The highest amount ever paid in managerial compensation was £21.5m, when Chelsea prised Graham Potter from Brighton.
Bayern are no strangers to forking out ridiculous compensation sums – they paid £21.4m for Nagelsmann from RB Leipzig in 2021 – but Palace’s demand is unlike anything ever seen.
After Rangnick turned down Bayern on May 1, Bayern chiefs Max Eberl and Christoph Freund contacted Glasner that evening.
He has a good reputation after winning the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022 and has started strongly at Crystal Palace, winning six of his first 12 games.
They have won five of their last six games and recorded a 4-0 win over Manchester United last week, playing them off the park.
Glasner was eager to make the move because one of his ambitions is to win the Champions League. That sort of achievement is more realistic at the Allianz Arena than Selhurst Park.
Glasner is greatly admired for leading Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory in 2022
Bayern are also keen on Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi, who led the Seagulls to a debut Europa League season
Bayern’s leadership fought for him, but Parish named the prohibitive fee to ward them off.
He insisted to Glasner that he must see through his contract until 2026 – unless things go wrong, of course – and the Austrian has accepted that.
