Ex-Arsenal star BANISHED from Premier League club and deletes them from social media
Rob Holding has removed almost every reference to Crystal Palace from his Instagram account after being frozen out of the club.
Holding joined Palace from Arsenal last year, but made just one appearance for the club in their 3-0 Carabao Cup third round defeat to Manchester United. The 28-year-old did make the bench last month for Palace’s 2-0 loss to West Ham, but was left out of the squad for the trip to Chelsea the following week.
And Palace boss Oliver Glasner confirmed that Holding was not out injured and instead training on his own, but declined to go into detail. “Rob is training individually at the moment,” Glasner revealed.
“We will talk together – he knows the reason. But it is something that stays between Rob and me. Nothing public.”
Holding has fallen further down the pecking order at Palace this summer following the additions of Chadi Riad, Maxence Lacroix and Trevoh Chalobah and the former Gunners defender has now unfollowed the club on Instagram and deleted all but one post involving referencing them.
Palace have yet to pick up a win this season, but Glasner is feeling positive after his side picked up their first point with a draw against Chelsea ahead of the international break. “An absolutely positive point with all the circumstances, coming here after two defeats in the Premier League,” he said.
“Just 14 players from our squad were available because of injuries or new players who couldn’t play today, and there were four from the Under-21s. Coming here, being one goal down at half-time was deserved, to be honest.
“But then coming back after one or two adaptions at half-time, with the spirit, with the belief, with the togetherness, I’m really delighted with the performance today. The first-half, we didn’t find the opportunities where they are.
“In the second-half, we did it much better. We were in very good shape so they didn’t find space. We knew they won’t always want to play in our pocket, it was once or twice. Then we struggled a little bit, but overall we did a really great job.”
