Victor Orta has stuck to his task and stuck to his promise throughout this transfer window for Leeds United and delivered a series of transfer deals few could have expected.
Rodrigo, the club’s first major addition of the window after the early confirmations of Helder Costa, Illan Meslier and Jack Harrison, arrived on August 29.
In the immediate aftermath of that success, the Whites’ director of football spoke to LUTV and laid out his plan for the window.
"We know our goal, we want to retain our Premier League status, this is our goal." he said.
"We need to be clear, we want to bring quality, not quantity. We need to be honest the goal is still to establish the team in the Premier League, 16 years is a lot of time and this is the reason to have ambition, but with clear growth.
"We need to finish the job now. Our strategy is quality, not quantity.
"I'm really happy with the situation about the under-23s, a lot of good work from the recruitment department behind us.
“I am really happy. It is true it is a strange market. We have sorted a lot of deals with the under-23s, we are building for the future.
"It's quality, not quantity. With Rodrigo we have a strategic signing and now we need to be clever with the additions because the competition is just starting now, but there's a still a loan market until October, but we have a plan and we need to stick to the plan and follow the plan.
"We have a plan, we need to follow it."
Five-and-a-half weeks later and it’s clear Orta has kept his promise to Whites fans.
Robin Koch, Diego Llorente and Raphinha have followed Rodrigo in the weeks after as far as the first team is concerned.
More than £75m spent across those four names to go with the trio returning from loans last season - quality not quantity.
