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Palace Must Follow the Pathway to Avoid Being One-Hit Wonders, Glasner Says 

Crystal Palace players celebrate with the trophy after winning the English FA Cup final soccer match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP)
Crystal Palace players celebrate with the trophy after winning the English FA Cup final soccer match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP)
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Palace Must Follow the Pathway to Avoid Being One-Hit Wonders, Glasner Says 

Crystal Palace players celebrate with the trophy after winning the English FA Cup final soccer match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP)
Crystal Palace players celebrate with the trophy after winning the English FA Cup final soccer match between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Wembley stadium in London, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP)

Qualifying for the Europa League will help Crystal Palace attract a higher caliber of player, but the Premier League club must aim for steady growth rather than risk everything on a crazy spending spree, manager Oliver Glasner said.

Palace's shock 1-0 victory over Manchester City in last week's FA Cup final earned them a first major trophy as well as a spot in Europe's second-tier club competition next season.

Club chairman Steve Parish said the squad would be strengthened to cope with the demands of European football, but Glasner warned against getting carried away.

"This club got promoted in 2013. Since then, this club always progressed," the Austrian told reporters ahead of Tuesday's game against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League, where Palace are 12th.

"You can be a one-hit wonder, but then you are gone, so it just makes no sense.

"And that's why we said, our planning shouldn't be, 'now we play in Europe, so we do crazy things, and then everything collapses'. No, how is the pathway? We follow the pathway.

"We get a special reward – we can play in Europe – but we don't leave our pathway ...

"Now it's going really step-by-step, but maybe winning this trophy, playing internationally, also getting this experience, maybe getting a player we couldn't get if we don't play international football, this can help us making the next step."

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Chelsea Boss Maresca Hails 'Great Triumph' in Winning Club World Cup

Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca lifts the trophy after his team beat Paris Saint-Germain in Sunday's Club World Cup final. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca lifts the trophy after his team beat Paris Saint-Germain in Sunday's Club World Cup final. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
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Chelsea Boss Maresca Hails 'Great Triumph' in Winning Club World Cup

Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca lifts the trophy after his team beat Paris Saint-Germain in Sunday's Club World Cup final. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca lifts the trophy after his team beat Paris Saint-Germain in Sunday's Club World Cup final. ANGELA WEISS / AFP

Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca insisted winning the Club World Cup meant as much as winning the Champions League after his side beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in the final of the first edition of FIFA's new competition on Sunday.

"I have the feeling that this competition is going to be as important, if not more important than, the Champions League," said Maresca after adding the trophy to the UEFA Conference League title his team won in May.

Maresca only took over at Chelsea a year ago but was previously on the coaching staff under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City when they won the Champions League in 2023, AFP said.

"I was lucky to be on the coaching staff of a team that won the Champions League a few years ago, but this competition features the best teams in the world and I think we can value it on the same level," said the Italian.

"It is a great triumph for us and it will allow the Chelsea fans to have that on our shirt for the next four years, so it is a source of pride."

Maresca said he instructed his players to go out and take the game to PSG from the off -- they went on to net all three goals in the first half with Cole Palmer netting a brace before Joao Pedro added his name to the scoresheet.

"The message was to let them understand that we were here to win the game and I think in the first 10 minutes we showed them that," Maresca said.

"That set the tone of the game, and then the quality of the players was also important."

England international Palmer was named player of the match after bagging a brace and setting up Joao Pedro's goal.

The 23-year-old therefore lived up to his superstar billing -- his face has appeared on billboards around New York advertising the tournament, alongside the likes of Real Madrid duo Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior.

"To score the goals was a great feeling, as was the way the team showed fire out there -- the gaffer's game plan was spot on," he said.

"I just try to do my job every time I go onto the pitch and hopefully I will continue.

"I have seen the billboards in Times Square and outside Madison Square Garden and it is obviously a nice feeling to be alongside those players," he added.