Tony Mowbray expects new signings Adil Aouchiche and Nazariy Rusyn to transition from impact subs to starting players soon, yet understands the importance of bedding them in before throwing them in the deep end.
RUSYN
"We're tempted to use him more, yes. The boy needed to train, he hadn't had any football for a month and I had discussions with him about game time and he wasn't quite ready. He wanted to play for the U21s [to get up to speed], he played off the left and showed a really good eye for diving in and making those diagonal runs."
LOOKS SHARP
"He did very, very well and looked sharp. He's still integrating into our group and he has to filter in and earn the respect of the team through the attributes he brings. Bit by bit, he'll get there and I'm pretty hopeful that it won't be too long a period of time before he's forced his way into the team with his talent and his work ethic, and hopefully with goals and assists."
AOUCHICHE
"Adil is a very talented boy, he has played a lot of Ligue 1 football so it's not as if he's a young boy who has never played at a senior level. He is very talented, it's just than in my mind at this moment he's still finding the discipline of the position we want to play him in. He tends to roam around and he wants the ball, he's very tidy and technical but at the moment we're asking the team to play with a bit more discipline positionally. Once Adil grasps that, I will have no fears of putting him in because he is good enough to play in our team, for sure."
TEAM STRUCTURE
"With Adil and Nazariy, I think [impact sub is a better role] because they have to bed into the structure of the team. They team has to repeat the the consistency of how we want to play so that we can dominate the game, and when we're not find that dominance, how we can break away and the spaces that players have to fill. It can be frustrating if a new player who hasn't quite bedded in... and at the moment we're not doing a lot of 11v11 training because we are playing so many games. Of course, we can use video and get the message across that way."
INTERNATIONAL BREAK
"A few more weeks, and I'll be happy that they can play in these positions and I can rotate the team around with the strengths of certain players. A few weeks down the line, maybe after the next international break, I think we'll have a lot more choices as injuries clear and as some of these players begin to step up."
