“Planning never stops,” declared Walsh. “From the day the window closes until the day it opens again, you are always looking at your possibilities. We are no different.
“We’ve done a lot of work behind the scenes to get the correct information about the players. I have sat down with Ronald and gone through those. Obviously we discuss it all the time and we want to improve things, build on what we have got. That’s the key message.
“We've got a large team of people working with me and I collate a lot of information from them. My department is very well run, very organised and we make sure we get as much information about the player that we possibly can. If we like the player, I’ve got to try to convince Ronald that he’s the player for us. It could well be that Ronald has seen the player as well, so it’s a collective decision at the end of the day.”