Sage, hired in the summer as the replacement for Oliver Glasner, lost his job barely an hour after Michael Carrick was fired by Manchester United. Crystal Palace fired coach Pierre Sage on Thursday after his troubled five-month tenure left the club sitting last in the Premier League and struggling to balance the demands of domestic and European soccer after selling some more of its key players. They are the first two Premier League managers to be sacked this season.
Palace has just two wins from 10 games in England’s top flight, with a 2-1 loss to Liverpool on Sunday – its fourth straight defeat in the league – leaving the team in last place on seven points.
Palace has won just one of its four matches in the Europa League. Sage arrived from Lens in June and had the daunting task of succeeding Oliver Glasner, who established himself as a club great after leading Palace to three trophies in two years: The FA Cup, the Community Shield and the Conference League. Because he deployed the same 3-4-3 formation as Glasner, but the club hasn’t backed the Frenchman with a deep enough squad to handle a tough schedule that mostly demands a game every three or four days because of Europa League commitments, sage was partly hired.
