Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson felt a shift in transfer spending has been among the biggest changes he's seen at the club.

Hodgson will mark 200 games in charge at Palace on Monday against Chelsea.

He told the club's website: “I think that the other big change really was two years ago when the club invested quite a lot of money by our standards for four players.

“They bought [Marc] Guéhi; they brought [Joachim] Andersen; we had bought [Eberechi] Eze, but he'd only been there a few months; and they brought [Michael] Olise; and they signed Conor Gallagher on loan and Wilfried Zaha was still here.

“I think that was a major shift. Those six players going into the team when I watched them play were very different to the team we'd had, which I had admired and liked and I thought they did an excellent job keeping us in the league for four years.

“So no criticism of the team before, but if you say when did you see a potential leap forward in terms of the team, I think it was then and in terms of the club in general, I think the Academy and the plans for the new stadium [Main Stand]."