Crystal Palace hero Mark Bright is delighted to see the progress of Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

Bright, who oversees all of Palace's loan players, nearly sent the defender out to gain experience as Wan-Bissaka was keen to get some game time under his belt.

He told The Sun: “Amazingly on transfer deadline day (January 2018) he asked me if he could go out on loan.

“I asked the manager and he refused, but as I was telling him the manager came down and told him 'if you stay here you will be training with Yohan Cabaye, Wilf [Zaha] and Andros Townsend'.

“'You might even get a chance here', that was the last thing he said to him.

“Five days later he made his first-team debut.

“I would have sent him out on loan as there were two clubs who wanted him and we would have never known.

“He, without knowing it, gives all those below and in his age group hope that at this football club, if you work hard enough and develop, you will get in the team."