Asked in the second part of his pre-match press conference to draw a comparison between the various ‘sizes’ of club within the Premier League, Glasner said: “In most countries [in Europe], there are three or four big clubs.
“There’s Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético in Spain and a few others. It’s Bayern Munich and Dortmund in Germany; it’s PSG and Lyon in France. It’s Inter, AC Milan, Juventus, Napoli in Italy.
“And in England, there are not just three or four, usually there are five, six, seven ‘big’ teams. I think in the last 30 years, 28 titles have been split between these teams, because this is how it works.
“They have the biggest stadiums, most of the money, the best players, the best managers, whatever. So this is just how the world is working and how the football world is working.
“But I don’t say that something is better or not, because Selhurst Park has such a fantastic atmosphere. With all their revenues, it’s a different size of a club, but that doesn’t mean that we are not able to compete with them [Tottenham] – and especially this year, I think we showed it in the league.”
Spurs have the largest stadium in London, which is also the second-newest in the Premier League behind Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium, and the third-largest in the country behind Old Trafford and Wembley.
Yet Palace are currently seven points clear of Manchester United and eight clear of Sunday’s opponents Spurs, and with just three games remaining this season, that lead is unlikely to be overturned.
Indeed, the last time Palace finished ahead of both Manchester United and Spurs in the same campaign was in the 1990/91 First Division.
“When you look over the last 10 years, how often have Palace been ahead of Manchester United?” Glasner added. “This year it could happen.
“For me, the motivation for coming to the Premier League is competing with the best. This is my personal motivation.
“Competing with the best clubs, with the best managers, with the best players and working with a great group of players and seeing and finding out where our ceiling is – this is my personal motivation. Everything else is not important.”
For Glasner, there is no limit to how high the club can go: “I don’t see a ceiling, you know, because as soon as I see a ceiling I say: ‘okay, let’s build one more floor!’
“And I was asked this week, ‘where’s the limit?’ I don’t know. If you set your personal limit, you never can reach a higher limit.
“If we had spoken 10 years ago, I was managing in the Austrian Second League. And if you had asked me, ‘do you think 10 years later you will have won the Europa League, and you’re now facing an FA Cup final with the Premier League side?’ [I would say] ‘please visit the doctor!’
“[There are] no limits, no ceiling. It’s just the ones we set. But we don’t want to set them, because we want to achieve the best we can.”
Asked in the second part of his pre-match press conference to draw a comparison between the various ‘sizes’ of club within the Premier League, Glasner said: “In most countries [in Europe], there are three or four big clubs.
“There’s Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético in Spain and a few others. It’s Bayern Munich and Dortmund in Germany; it’s PSG and Lyon in France. It’s Inter, AC Milan, Juventus, Napoli in Italy.
“And in England, there are not just three or four, usually there are five, six, seven ‘big’ teams. I think in the last 30 years, 28 titles have been split between these teams, because this is how it works.
“They have the biggest stadiums, most of the money, the best players, the best managers, whatever. So this is just how the world is working and how the football world is working.
“But I don’t say that something is better or not, because Selhurst Park has such a fantastic atmosphere. With all their revenues, it’s a different size of a club, but that doesn’t mean that we are not able to compete with them [Tottenham] – and especially this year, I think we showed it in the league.”
Spurs have the largest stadium in London, which is also the second-newest in the Premier League behind Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium, and the third-largest in the country behind Old Trafford and Wembley.
Yet Palace are currently seven points clear of Manchester United and eight clear of Sunday’s opponents Spurs, and with just three games remaining this season, that lead is unlikely to be overturned.
Indeed, the last time Palace finished ahead of both Manchester United and Spurs in the same campaign was in the 1990/91 First Division.
“When you look over the last 10 years, how often have Palace been ahead of Manchester United?” Glasner added. “This year it could happen.
“For me, the motivation for coming to the Premier League is competing with the best. This is my personal motivation.
“Competing with the best clubs, with the best managers, with the best players and working with a great group of players and seeing and finding out where our ceiling is – this is my personal motivation. Everything else is not important.”
For Glasner, there is no limit to how high the club can go: “I don’t see a ceiling, you know, because as soon as I see a ceiling I say: ‘okay, let’s build one more floor!’
“And I was asked this week, ‘where’s the limit?’ I don’t know. If you set your personal limit, you never can reach a higher limit.
“If we had spoken 10 years ago, I was managing in the Austrian Second League. And if you had asked me, ‘do you think 10 years later you will have won the Europa League, and you’re now facing an FA Cup final with the Premier League side?’ [I would say] ‘please visit the doctor!’
“[There are] no limits, no ceiling. It’s just the ones we set. But we don’t want to set them, because we want to achieve the best we can.”
