Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart expects the Premier League club to buy British this summer.
Hart and his England teammates have begun their preparations for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia on Thursday, but the focus of the prematch news conferences at the team hotel shifted to club matters following the publication of an interview with Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
The City chairman confirmed he intends to bring in "high-quality individuals'' this summer after losing the Premier League title race to Chelsea last term.
City have been linked with moves for Juventus star Paul Pogba and Wolfsburg playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, but Hart thinks home-grown additions are important.
Following the departures of James Milner and Frank Lampard, he is the only senior English player in the City squad -- other than third-choice goalkeeper Richard Wright.
For that reason, he hopes the club will also make some English additions in the close season.
"I am not in the discussions of transfers, but after losing Frank and James, I imagine with home-grown [rules], it will be top of their list to bring in English players or to promote some of the [young] lads,'' the City and England goalkeeper said.
One of Hart's England teammates Raheem Sterling has been linked with a move to Etihad Stadium in recent weeks as his contract dispute with Liverpool intensifies.
Whoever the club signs, Hart is sure City will bounce back from last season's disappointment and challenge on all fronts next term.
"I am very confident in Man City, which is why I committed my future to the club,'' said the goalkeeper, who signed a new four-year contract in December last year.
"What [the owners] are doing is fantastic. He is a great chairman. They have done amazing things since coming.
"On a personal note, I am very sad to see [Milner] go as he is personal friend. But football is football. We have been in the game a long time and it is business.''
City may have had a poor season by their high standards, but individually, Hart was superb.
Hart missed just two league matches after cutting out the errors that caused Manuel Pellegrini to drop him two years ago.
Lionel Messi described Hart as a "phenomenon'' after he prevented Barcelona from racking up a huge aggregate win over City in the Champions League, and he also pulled off one of the saves of the season to deny Swansea's Federico Fernandez in the penultimate game of the campaign.
The England keeper won the Premier League Golden Glove, for the fourth time in five years, after keeping 14 clean sheets and, for his country, he has only been beaten twice since the World Cup -- by Jordan Henderson's own goal against Slovenia, and Graziano Pelle in the 1-1 draw with Italy three months ago.
In truth, he did not have to work hard to keep his sixth England clean sheet of the season last week against the Republic of Ireland.
England played out a dull goalless draw in Dublin. The match was so poor that Paul Scholes described it as a "waste of space," but Hart dismissed the negativity surrounding the performance.
Hart added: "We all want to play well, have 45 passes and then someone chips the keeper and someone do a bicycle kick but that is not realistic.
"We are playing against opposition who have the same responsibilities to their country. The ideal performance would be perfect and for everyone to love it but we have to do a job. It is not an easy job, but we love it and we want to win games.''