Tony Mowbray has spoken about the various ways he is trying to help Jewison Bennette adapt to English football, and where he sees the Costa Rican playing in the future.
DRIBBLING QUALITY
"He's so fast and direct, he picks it up and drives with it, his feet are so fast. He shifts it from left to right and there's no change, he shifts his shoulders and he's past people."
PHYSICAL
"He doesn't know much about the Championship yet and that's why I'm taking him to matches, he has to watch it, see the physicality of the game and the demands on the players to run back as well as forward. In modern football you defend with everyone and attack with everyone. So these young players need time and then opportunities, which they'll get."
LEFT WINGER
"Jewison is someone who looks to me as if he's going to play off the left side. Now at the moment we didn't have a winger in our system, yet Jack Clarke has shown what a wonderful job he can do in a wing-back role."
FLEXIBLE
"We'll have to see how the team unfolds and we'll have to show flexibility. At some point we'll have to go to a back four. For four or five years at Blackburn Rovers I played with a 4-3-3 in different ways, sometimes without a nine. You need defenders who can play in a back four [to do that] as well."
NEW SIGNINGS
"I've watched these lads for an hour in a bounce game, which isn't enough for me yet. To put it into context, I wasn't part of the process that brought them in, that process was done, I had only been in one day and then they were getting presented on the pitch."
A WEEK OR TWO AWAY
"But I can see why they're in the building, they're talented and mobile. It's just so they understand, rather than they come in one day and within a week they are thrust into the first team. They need opportunities at some stage, and they will be given opportunities when the time is right. They are a week or two away from coming in and lighting everything up, really."
INTERGRATION
"You see little flashes in training of how fast and direct they are. In the longer-term, they have to be attacking players for us. We have to integrate them into the team and at some stage we will."
