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Alex Oakhill
Wed 13 August 2025 17:51, UK
Crystal Palace have suffered a crushing blow ahead of the new campaign following a major Oliver Glasner reveal.
The South London side ended their pre-season in the best possible way, beating Liverpool on penalties to win the Community Shield.
However, just a day later, it was confirmed that Palace will not play in the Europa League next season and have instead been demoted to the Conference League.
The Eagles had appealed the decision, which was first made by UEFA back in July, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the ban.
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes that the reason for the demotion concerns current manager Glasner.
Glasner will lead Palace into their Conference League campaign (Credit: Imago)
This article contains exclusive comment from Keith Wyness, former Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen CEO.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, Wyness insists that CAS decided John Textor had decisive influence due to his part in the appointment of Glasner.
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Textor sold his shares in Palace after breaching multi-club ownership rules, but it wasn’t enough to get the Eagles reinstated into the Europa League.
Wyness added that the Glasner appointment has been the root cause of the controversy.
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “Well, we haven’t seen the written reasons yet and I’m going to have to wait until I see those before I can make some sort of definitive pronouncement on it.
“From what I’ve seen so far, it does appear that CAS have decided that Textor did have a decisive influence, and I think that would have been mainly around the appointment of Oliver Glasner.
“That’s going to be the root cause because certainly having input or major input into the appointment of a manager is a pretty decisive influence on a club.
Many would say that’s the most important person you’re going to sign for the club in many ways.
“So certainly, if they could have pinned that together, then I think that’s where it will lie.
Of course, as I say, we’ve got to see the written decisions before we can really comment, but I think that’s where decisive influence will have come from.”
CAS decided Textor had decisive influence (Credit: Imago)
Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are reportedly at risk of facing a mass exodus of their star players in the wake of their recent FA Cup and Community Shield success.
That is according to former Man United and Blackburn chief scout Mick Brown, who claims that both Glasner and Marc Guehi could leave Selhurst Park next summer.
Both the manager and the captain have one year remaining on their contracts, while Eberechi Eze has also been heavily linked with a move away before the window closes.
Brown told Football Insider on 7 August that Palace are prepared to sell Guehi this summer as they are extremely reluctant to lose him on a free when his deal expires.
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