New Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has detailed his backroom staff appointments.
Glasner has kept on Paddy McCarthy and Dean Kiely, but has brought in several new staff. Michael Angerschmid, Ronald Brunmayr and Emanuel Pogatetz arrive, as does fitness coach Michael Berktold.
He told the club's website: First, it's very important for all of us that Paddy stayed in the team because he knows the players better than we all do. He has also great experience here with Crystal Palace. He's worked before in the Academy and he's a great guy. It's important that he is in our team.
The guys who came from Austria Emmanuel Pogatetz, I was looking for an assistant who has experience with the Premier League. He played here for six or seven years.
Also the player's thinking is important, because you have the players in Austria with a different mentality than the players in Germany and then the players here in England. I already saw some specific topics, but he also has this experience. He's a coach and he's also a very great and direct guy.
And the other three, we have one fitness coach [Michael Berktold]. I worked with him for almost six years in Linz [LASK] and then in Wolfsburg. He left Wolfsburg because of his family situation it was covid at that time and he asked me 'I would like to go back to my family in this difficult situation'. Then he left us, but we were always in touch.
He said it's also important when we want to increase the intensity of playing, that we increase the intensity of training. But we have to monitor it, because we cannot afford more injuries than we have. So I wanted to have a guy who is experienced with the way of training I'm used to doing.
Michael and Ronald, they were with me in Frankfurt also. They're responsible for set pieces, set plays.
Ronald was a former striker. He won the Golden Boot once in Austria, so he will work with our strikers on how they can move in the box, how they can improve their finishing.
And there's also Dean, the goalkeeper coach who is here. He's also good for us. He tells us a lot of what's happened until now.
We all were convinced that we needed the experience of the guys who were already here, and we needed the experience of the guys who've worked with me together, and that we have the best situation to connect this.
We don't have the time to say: 'oh, we have six weeks' pre-season, let's see how it works.' Now, it's started."