Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson says the priority is to keep their best players ahead of making new signings.

Hodgson and Palace are currently in Sweden for their preseason.

He said, "Our scouting team are looking at everything really, they are very good.

"We have a very organised and expansive scouting network really, they work very hard, and we know the players that are playing over here and anyone that is good and deserves to be recognised, we will know about them.

"But the fact is we aren't actively scouting anywhere at the moment and our major concern is to keep hold of the players that we have, and hopefully sign some others.

"We aren't in that situation that many other Premier League clubs are where they have a pot of gold that they can throw around and buy players; we are not in that situation.

"Anyone we bring in will be carefully chosen and will fit within our budgetary restrictions, which we most definitely have.

"Because although the club has spent a lot of money in transfers [in recent years] we are still paying for a lot of those transfers going into the next season, and unfortunately it has taken a large chunk that would have been available for us."