The no investment in the squad is a bit of a red herring. We have made 2 big money signings recently and not really got any real value from them, Benteke a shadow of the player in his first season and Sakho who seems injured most of the time. They both get big wages and are a drain on our finances.
Since Roy arrived, Guita, Cahill, Kouyate and Ayew have joined and a fixture every week in the first team.
Roy seems to get the best out of players, that fit into his system, not necessarily big money players.
I doubt this summer there will be a pleather of new signings with the fall out of Covid 19. A few from cash strapped Championship clubs seems more likely.

I would say that Sam did some of the best transfer business of any recent Palace manager. Those three have all been important for us long after he left. (I'd argue that perhaps Neil Warnock did one of the best bits of business in signing the original Jimmy Mac, but that's besides the point!)

Hodgson has done a sterling job of getting the most out of the players he inherited. Questions will be asked about some players, like why Schlupp always gets a game, or why Sorloth did so well in Turkey, but no manager is 100% successful all the time with every player. Roy's built a solid, reliable team. No-one looks at us as "easy prey" any more and even if we're not setting the world alight, I need only to remind you of Stoke City, who wanted to be more exciting and adventurous, so they brought in Mark Hughes and sunk like a stone. The grass is not always greener, and in their case, it turned out that is mostly moss and weeds anyway.

The ship was in 'Pitchy seas' when he arrived with 4 straight defeats in the opening 4 games and no goals scored.
Portholes were glugging and bilge pumps were working overtime.

As we have seen Money spent on players does not equate to success. I am sure Steve values Roy and Dougie's knowledge but I far happier to hear we are spending money bringing on youth through are own academy.

Or playing some to see if we do need to buy that many!

No time like the present...

One of them must be wrong, but which one?

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers