“I always think when you sign players everyone will go ‘oh what a great signing’ and they haven’t even seen him play yet. Time will always be the deciding factor in how good your recruitment has been.
“When you look back historically on some of our signings at this point – I’ll even go back to my Bournemouth days, there were some players that I’d sign and make an instant decision and go ‘he was a poor signing’ but two years later they are seen as a very good signing.
“As I feel now, I think it’s been a good window but really it’s one or two years down the line that you give a true assessment.”