Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson is reluctant to consider his plans next season.

The veteran manager says it's too soon to consider his options.

He said: “You've got to be careful suggesting you're going to make a decision on the basis of one particular day when you feel that way. I don't know whether I want to [continue] or not, but I certainly don't have it as a goal to make certain I can keep going and keep going and keep going.

“I know that the day will come when it's no longer possible for me to work, so I won't have the offer if you like to work at the level I want to work at. So I know that day is going to come.

“I thought it was coming at the end of last season, but it was prolonged by the club asking me to stay on for this season. That's what I'm doing. I don't have any plans or any thoughts beyond that. I want to do well this season.

“I want to help the club have a good season and then that will be me finished with Crystal Palace Football Club and whether or not I should want to continue somewhere else, I don't know.

“I don't want to say because I had all that, well was it two or three getting on for two and a half years ago now? I had all that for about four or five months: 'You're going to be retire, you're going to carry on?'

“And then of course don't retire. Not that I actually said I was going to, but I got sort of retired because people were reading as they thought between the lines in what I was saying. So I got retired then that retirement, lasted four or five months before I went back to Watford, and then another five or six months happened before I came back to Crystal Palace.

“I determined not to make any bold statements that this is my last season, but I can say that I'm not actively seeking at the moment or planning what I'm going to do at the end of this season. I'm planning and hoping that I'll have a good season here and then move away and then I'll see what happens."