Kenny Jackett has the final say at Wolves
Boss Kenny Jackett has underlined his role in signing players for Wolves by insisting 'they wouldn't sign a player I didn't want.'
Wolves moved to a more modern style three years ago with Kevin Thelwell heading up a recruitment team while Jackett is, of course, head coach.
The coming weeks will be a crucial time for the club, with strikers and defenders needed to boost the ranks, especially in the wake of Benik Afobe's £10million move to Bournemouth.
And the Wolves boss confirmed that no signing is made without his say-so, explaining: "I'm part of the team-head of the team.
"Certainly centre forwards are a breed on their own, they're certainly more expensive as well. Our recruitment team have a good knowledge of the market that is out there.
"They wouldn't sign a player I didn't want. But the idea is that they can be a lot more thorough than perhaps I could be. For myself, while you're playing your fixtures, that's when the games are.
"It's very difficult to see that player, so it does somewhere along the line go on to somebody else's judgement, but it has to be their judgement with your vision.
"It's your vision of where that person fits in, thus becoming a more thorough process. That's the idea these days and that's the way it works here. I'm comfortable with it."
Transfer fees in the Championship have rocketed this season and Jackett, who claims he has never signed a player he hasn't watched live, believes the quality of the division will continue to increase.
Would he ever sign a player he's never watched live? He said: "Ideally no, I haven't done, but then watching them once sometimes isn't enough either.
"You can watch DVDs, or almost any game certainly in Europe, it seems on a system called Wyscout, but it's still not the same as watching them live and having a feel for it.
"Players see the Championship then as a gateway to the Premier League, but so should all of us.
"It's a good thing and the finances of the Championship, the level of player, is going up.
"Then more players come from around the world and, obviously, the standard will continue to rise, and open up.
"It makes the league more attractive to some of the top players around the world, if they can't get into the Premier League."
