Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner is delighted with the enthusiasm of the players he's inherited.

Glasner is still only weeks into his new job.

He told the club's website: “It's always difficult to start during the season: you have some games left, the situation is how it is, you have not that much influence. Maybe that happens somewhere in pre-season over five, six, seven weeks, [where] there are changes in the team.

“But as I mentioned, the players are great characters. They are open-minded, they are listening, they also want to have some changes in the way of play and now it's up to us that we get into them as fast as possible.

“I'm really looking forward to that and the whole team here in Crystal Palace, not just the players, the whole team, the whole club gives us this trust that we can work on it.

“I could feel and the first two weeks I am here, so everything goes into this direction that we want to improve, the players want to improve, the organisation wants to improve, wants to develop, the club wants to develop.

“We all have to work together because the Premier League is a really tough place to improve, but I can feel at the moment that we are all working very hard that we make it real.

“It's our job that we get out 100 percent of any player and I'm just content and happy when we can reach it with any player. I also have to say that I've never reached it before, that we had 100 per cent of every single player in the squad, but that's our job.

“[It's our job] to work with the players, to talk with the players, to give them solutions. Sometimes it's to kick them in the head, sometimes it's to hug them!

“This is our job and this is why I like being a football coach, because you have to deal with human people, you have to deal with young boys, you have to deal with experienced players, but all great characters.

“Then we try to create this spirit in our team, that the players know we are all here to support them, but also we demand a lot of them."