Steve Parish wants next Crystal Palace manager to build the club up like Steve Coppell with Sean Dyche under consideration

Great ambitions: Parish wants a long-term successor for Sam Allardyce
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Giuseppe Muro1 June 2017

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says he wants to appoint a manager who will stay at Selhurst Park long enough to build the club, as Steve Coppell did.

Palace have drawn up a long list of candidates to replace Sam Allardyce, and Parish is seeking someone with a long-term vision.

Mauricio Pellegrino, who resigned from Alaves on Monday, is the latest name being linked with the position and Burnley boss Sean Dyche is also under consideration.

Palace will take their time to properly assess their options but Parish does not want someone who considers the club a stepping stone to a bigger job.

He has also said Palace are still weighing up the direction they want to go in in terms of their playing style - which will have a major bearing on who they go for.

“We really want somebody who feels they can come in and help us improve the footballing side of the club over a long period of time,” Parish told American radio station SiriusXM FC.

“That is what we are looking for. In the past we have had managers like Steve Coppell who have been at the club a long time and helped build the club. If we could get one of those relationships again that would be preferable.

Steve Coppell instructs his Palace players in the 1990 FA Cup Final
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“At the moment we have a long list and are honing that down. It is about what direction we want to go in from a playing style. We have got a personnel and a way of playing. It has served us well. Do we try and change that again as we did with Alan [Pardew]? Or do we stick with what we have and try and be what we are, which is pretty effective?

“That is the first question we have to ask ourselves. That will inform probably where we go on the list of managers. After that you are just looking for somebody who has got a long-term view for the club. We do not really want someone who sees it as a stepping stone.”

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