Alan Pardew keen to extend Crystal Palace contract

Alan Pardew wants to extend his contract at Crystal Palace as he believes the club shares his ambitions.

The former Newcastle and West Ham boss arrived at Selhurst Park a year ago with the club marooned in the bottom three, but he steered them to a 10th-place finish and now has them sitting fifth at the halfway stage of the Premier League season.

The 54-year-old is now in talks over a new deal to reward his progress and he is keen to take Palace to the next level.

"The reason I am talking to them about a new contract here is because I feel we could go forward," he said ahead of their Super Sunday clash with struggling Chelsea.

"There is no point in me staying if I don't have the ambition

"At this time of my career, I need to win trophies - that is probably the thing that you can hold against me as a manager, so I want to win trophies.

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"When I came here the most important thing was to go from the concept of a manager who was trying to stay in the division - which I think Neil Warnock's mentality was - to a manager who wanted to finish higher than that," the Eagles boss said.

"If you set your sights for the stars, you are going to fall a little bit less.

"The biggest difference I made here was changing the mentality of the players to make them think they could go and win.

"It's quite an important role for a manger, to give belief. I take that as massive for this football club at the time. I think there was a lack of belief.

"I changed the dynamic of the players and the attitude of approaching games. To go and win games and not a 'see how we go' kind of attitude to try and stay in the game."

Pardew said his decision to leave Newcastle for south London was based on the clubs' contrasting transfer policies.

"Of course I questioned my sanity at times because Newcastle is a big, big club," he said.

"But the timing was right for me and Newcastle to say 'OK, you go down a different road now and let me go down a different road'.

"And [Palace chairman] Steve Parish's assurances on the transfer situation were key to me coming here. He said I would have full control over transfers.

"The way transfers were done at Newcastle I didn't entirely agree with and I didn't want that here. That was one of the big reasons I came."