{"id":246592,"date":"2026-06-03T19:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/report-sage-to-leave-lens-amid-crystal-palace-links-thes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:20:25","slug":"report-sage-to-leave-lens-amid-crystal-palace-links-thes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/report-sage-to-leave-lens-amid-crystal-palace-links-thes\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sage to leave Lens amid Crystal Palace links | theS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Pierre Sage is poised to step down as Lens coach, a source close to the Ligue 1 club told AFP on Wednesday, amid reports he is set to take over at Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Sage led Lens to a second-placed finish this season behind Paris Saint-Germain and the club&#8217;s first French Cup triumph in its 120-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old spent just one season at Lens, with his only other top-level coaching stint at Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>According to French media, he could move to the Premier League to replace Oliver Glasner at Palace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/fran\/news\/3549634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Sage is poised to step down as Lens coach, a source close to the Ligue 1 club told AFP on Wednesday, amid reports he is set to take over at Crystal Palace. Sage led Lens to a second-placed finish this season behind Paris Saint-Germain and the club&#8217;s first French Cup triumph in its 120-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}