“This transfer window was really the first time the gaffer kind of put his own stamp on what he wanted to do,” he says. “He got rid of who he no longer wanted and brought in who he wanted. It’s exciting. We know his philosophy and what he wants and we need to keep working towards that and keep improving. Because we are young, we are probably one of the youngest teams in the Premier League, and we are not the finished article, so we are not getting ahead of ourselves. But the building blocks, the direction, are there.”