And also hopefully have our better players back.

Steve Coppell was a guest on a podcast a few days ago and is of the opinion that to have any chance of succeeding in football management as a minimum there are two prerequisites,
- Successful recruitment policy
- A method of playing that suits the available players (as opposed to shoehorning the players into a preferred but unsuitable system).
That set me thinking of Dyche and Howe as possible candidates.
Dyche is good at what he does.
An uncomplicated 442 with two hard working central midfielders and two physical strikers. Lots of passes into the channels and crosses with a view to testing the resolve of the opposition.
I don't think this would suit our existing players, in particular Eze and Zaha.
Howe has used more varied tactics with more possession in midfield and utilisation of ball players which may suit the likes of Eze and Zaha.
Arguably Howe would be a better fit for our current squad, but a lot will depend on recruitment plans for the summer.
I'm sure there will be other managerial candidates as well but the central point about recruitment and most appropriate playing system for the squad remains applicable.

Unsubstantiated bollocks.

This is the problem, they might seem to reflect Hodgsons approach,
But is that because we couldn’t finance any other approach without going the same way as most clubs that have tried, even having spent a good amount more than Palace, have?
Bargain basement is whats been signed. Reasonably reliable old bangers, have seen better days types. Still know how to shut a door types , though even that has now worn dangerously thin.
Howe had a wealthy Russian bankrolling , what did Howe get him ? Relegation.. Why would Steve , try to outdo the wealthy Russian.?
My feeling is even if the club can come up with some money , they need to look beyond Howe,.

It would seem to me everybody at the club knows it’s financial limitations, and what that means. It means we can only make sure we stay in the division, as relegation could be a disaster.
I don’t think Hodgson, gets much more than , will this guy suit the system you have devised , He probably says yes , but So and So would be better. Answer sorry can’t do. It will not fit the budget.
After all no manager , will turn down expensive top quality ,if it was to be had. The record shows it isn’t to be had in any amount that would alter our abilities as a team dramatically.

I've seen interviews with Coppell and Redknapp faily recently saying recruitment is 90% of what a manger has to do.

Coppell said he and Noades used to drive around the country every night of the week to try and find the right players to fit in the team.

Hodgson seems to be pretty passive on the whole situation. Regardless of what the situation is, Hodgson doesn't seem particularly interested in the transfer side of things.

I was another talk by Clive Woodward a few years ago. He said players where experts in their positions, you have to listen to them as well as instruct them and put them in positions where they know exactly what to do, instinctively, under any scenario. Hodgson simply tries to shoe horn players into 4-4-2. Take PVA on the left wing against Leeds. The guy isn't a left winger, no amount of watching games can make you sharp enough to start playing in a role you aren't used to, hence why he looked like a deer in headlights chasing the game.

That's exactly what you want to here from Cooper. Then again FdB said all the right things and did something completely different.