West Bromwich Albion are already preparing their transfer plans for next summer, according to the club’s technical director Dan Ashworth.
The Baggies enjoyed a successful summer window in which they secured the likes of Claudio Yacob and Romelu Lukakau who have both looked promising in the Premier League so far.
Ashworth, who will leave the club later this season to become the FA’s director of elite development, has said that the club are already working towards summer 2013:
“For the first time there probably wasn’t any criticism (of Albion’s summer signings),” he told the Birmingham Mail.
“Short of any injuries, or any fantastic offers for any of our players, I can’t see us doing much in January.
“When the window closed on August 31, an email went the next day with our summer targets.
“We are now looking towards summer 2013 and we will spend the coming months doing that.
“If any are available in January, either on pre-contract which we can do from abroad or people running into the final six months of their contracts, then maybe but we know the positions we want to strengthen next season.
“The board meetings we have all take into account where we might need to strengthen, who is getting older, who might want to move on.”
