Oliver Glasner has opened up on his impending departure from Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt as Tottenham Hotspur look to bring an Antonio Conte replacement to the Premier League.
According to BILD, Spurs held talks with the 48-year-old back in March.
Now, with Oliver Glasner confirmed to be leaving his current employers, the extent of Tottenham Hotspur’s interest should become clear.
Frankfurt, via The Athletic, announced his departure earlier in the week. This comes only a month or so after reports emerged suggesting that the Europa League holders were desperate to tie Glasner down to a new contract, and also highlights just how rapidly things have unravelled for the former Wolfsburg boss at the Commerzbank Arena.
Tottenham manager target Oliver Glasner leaving Frankfurt
“Oliver Glasner will remain Oliver Glasner. He has his strengths and weaknesses,” the man himself said on Thursday, via BuliNews; the once softly-spoken head coach departing in a blaze of noise and a hurricane of headlines.
“I cannot and will not bend. My two years here have made me emotional. I arrived as a bore and I’m leaving as a highly emotional guy. That’s how this experience has shaped me.”
Frankfurt have won just three of their last 16 games in all competitions; Die Adler blaming the ‘development and overall performance in the second half of the campaign’ for Glasner’s premature departure.
It remains to be seen if a disappointing end to an otherwise impressive spell at Frankfurt puts pay to Glasner’s hopes of securing one of the top jobs in European football. In addition to Tottenham, he was reportedly a target for Chelsea and Real Madrid not so long ago.
Now, links with all three clubs have gone a little quiet.
“I think it’s the right decision. If you can’t get along anymore, then you have to be open about it and just separate,” former Frankfurt board member Heribert Bruchhagen tells Sky, news of Glasner’s exit coming less than 12 months after he defeated Rangers in a tense Europa League final in Sevilla.
“That is what happened here. Eintracht will get a new coach.”
Julian Nagelsmann, Vincent Kompany and Luis Enrique reportedly remain on Daniel Levy’s radar. Xabi Alonso, however, is committing his immediate future to Bayer Leverkusen.
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