Former Crystal Palace boss Ian Holloway admits he changed too much too soon in the summer.
Palace signed enough players for an entire new team over the summer, bringing in the likes of the much-maligned Marouane Chamakh from Arsenal, Reading pair Adrian Mariappa and Jimmy Kebe, Jerome Thomas from West Brom, Jose Campana from Sevilla, Stephen Dobbie from Brighton, Dwight Gayle from Peterborough, Elliot Grandin from Holloway's former club Blackpool and, on loan, Southampton's Jason Puncheon and Stoke's Cameron Jerome
Holloway said: "I didn't value enough the spirit of the group that helped us get to the Premier League.
"I've lost the spirit of that group. I owe it to the lads to admit that.
"I'm not saying my new signings aren't good enough. But they need to buy into this football club the same way my other lads did."
Palace co-owner Steve Parish said Holloway had run himself into the ground doing his own scouting over the summer.
"We came up very much as a Championship club," he said. "The amount of work that went on in the summer was extraordinary, Ian was watching player after player. We should have had more of a scouting infrastructure in place."
