Crystal Palace are not giving up on appointing Andoni Iraola as their new manager – although they currently expect him to join a bigger club this summer.

Palace want him to succeed Oliver Glasner. He is still understood to remain the preferred candidate despite interest from other clubs in the soon-to-be out of contract Bournemouth boss. 

One of those is Chelsea but he is not the only person on the list. Iraola was believed to be a candidate for Athletic Bilbao in his native Basque reason of Spain – but that job has been handed to Edin Terzic this week. 

Palace are understood to be working on other targets but still hold out hope that Iraola’s other options run out and the chance to appoint him moves back onto the horizon.