Even if Tottenham win the Europa League on Wednesday night in Bilbao against fellow Premier League strugglers Manchester United, there's more than a good chance that current manager Ange Postecoglou finds himself on the unemployment line after two seasons in North London.
Postecoglou currently has Spurs in 17th in the Premier League, and they suffered yet another 2-0 loss in league play this past weekend to Aston Villa. Their 2024/25 season is the worst Premier League campaign in the club's storied history, so it is difficult to envision a road back for Postecoglou when his biggest sample size competition has been so abysmal.
Fulham coach Marco Silva has largely been discussed as the favorite to replace Postecoglou as Tottenham manager, but there are a handful of options in the English top flight at clubs outperforming Spurs who are mentioned as potential candidates.
Tottenham could hire a coach with two major titles under his belt
One of those is Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner, a former Europa League winner with Eintracht Frankfurt. Glasner is actually the betting favorite to become the next Spurs manager, and he only increased his stock on Saturday afternoon with a 1-0 upset of Manchester City in the FA Cup Final to win yet another important piece of silverware for an underdog club - silverware that, also, Tottenham have yet to win at the time of this writing.
If Glasner was already the odds-on favorite to coach Tottenham, then securing the FA Cup for Crystal Palace surely makes him an even hotter candidate, not just for Tottenham but for other clubs interested in hiring a manager who can take a club higher.
Aside from a failed spell at Wolfsburg, which is one of the most dysfuctional clubs in European football despite not getting much "credit" for their mismanagement, Glasner has overperformed everywhere he's been. At one point, he was even getting shouts as a potential Real Madrid coaching candidate, which is close to the highest praise a manager can get.
Tottenham need to do their homework on Glasner and compare him to both Postecoglou and the other top managerial candidates, such as Brentford's Thomas Frank or Fulham's Silva. But Glasner now has a second compelling reason and an edge above the others, and after this FA Cup triumph over Pep Guardiola and Manchester City, Glasner has slayed yet another European giant in a big game and put himself squarely on everyone's radar. In conjunction with his overperformance at Palace in the second half of the Premier League season, this FA Cup win is a very big deal.