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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 11, 2017 17:10:58 GMT
Crystal Palace were already considering replacing manager Frank de Boer two weeks before he was eventually sacked.
De Boer, 47, met with Palace chairman Steve Parish and sporting director Dougie Freedman on Monday, 28 August.
Parish and Freedman left that meeting very underwhelmed and with no confidence that the Dutchman was the right man to turn Palace's fortunes around.
They made contact with [former England manager] Roy Hodgson - the favourite to take over at Selhurst Park - and other potential replacements about their availability that week - but the club's focus turned to player recruitment at the end of the transfer window.
De Boer was expected to be sacked before Sunday's trip to Burnley and although that did not materialise and there were signs of encouragement despite Palace's 1-0 defeat, it was largely irrelevant.
The hierarchy - Parish, his American co-owners and Freedman, were in the director's box at Turf Moor and the decision had been all-but made.
Palace sacked the Dutchman on Monday after just 77 days in charge.
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Post by dorf on Sept 12, 2017 11:33:44 GMT
Madness in my opinion, we would have done well to give him another 3 games. Our first season in the PL we lost 9 of the first 10 and still finished 11th. lots of speculation that he wasn't getting on with the players etc, but the rate in which managers are sacked/walk out on Palace it may be to do with personality issues with Steve Parish. Who are we to question though, us poor football supporters just prop the whole thing up with our Sky subscriptions and season tickets! Should have been given to the end of October at the very least. If absolutely no improvement by then at least there's plenty of games to rectify things and finish in the top half of the league.
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