Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson sees their future built around the club's academy.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka is the first Palace academy product to establish himself in the senior side since Wilfried Zaha.

Hodgson told Sky Sports: "It is an area which has got the potential to produce the players, that's something we're very conscious of here at the club.

"We're trying to improve our academy, improve our facilities, attract more players and make certain that when those players come, we work hard with them to make sure that they go the same way as Wilf Zaha and Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

"We would be very happy if our academy could produce more players like Aaron and Wilf because players like that are very, very difficult to find in the transfer market. And if you are fortunate enough to find them, you will have to have an awful lot of money to spend to buy them.

"Obviously we need investment in the first team, but we also need the academy. We need to make certain that by developing our status as a bona fide Premier League club in the south-east, we'll be the club people want to send their children to and the good young players will want to come to.

"Part of that is making sure they know they will have chances. It won't just be a question of, 'Well, I'll be their best young player for two or three years, but when a vacancy comes up in the squad they will go and spend 50 or 60 million on the best player in France, Spain, Germany, Italy or wherever it happens to be.'

"I think we have an advantage in that sense because we aren't that type of club."