Tony Mowbray outlines West Brom's recruitment plan after his appointment

The Baggies boss was unveiled to the media on Monday, and he faced a barrage of questions about his health, the players he has in the building and what the team could look like come the end of the month. 

Albion currently have sporting director Andrew Nestor and head of football operations Ian Pearce, who are tasked with bringing players to The Hawthorns. 

The winter transfer window is set to close on February 3, and Albion have yet to add to their ranks this month. 

Albion are finalising a deal worth £2.5 million for Standard Liege midfielder Isaac Price and it is understood they are interested in signing forward Ali Al-Hamadi on loan from Ipswich. 

And Mowbray revealed he has not come back to the Black Country to make demands on transfers, saying he will have some input, but it is going to be a team effort to bring players in. 

"It's already been done for me, to be honest," he said when asked about incomings. "The gentleman next to me (Andrew Nestor) is very astute at what he does, very clever, and I'm listening and watching. I'm not going in saying 'I think we should sign him, I think he could be available, I've worked with him before, what a good player' I'm not doing that.

"You heard them in their manager search. There's lots of data out there that points to players, now they'll all point to Harry Kane if you want goals, but you ain't going to spend £100 million on Harry Kane, you know what I mean?

"You have to be clever, that's what I think. What leagues are you looking at? What divisions are you looking at? What teams are you thinking about trying to buy from? And that's how you have to do it.

"I'm not coming in here and saying 'I'm really disappointed. Why don't you sign him?' 

"I'm happy to work with the group, and as we learn more about each other, I'm sure I'll be offered an opinion of what do you think.

"I can have opinions, but I'm not going to be stamping my feet if I don't get the ones I want. It's not the way modern-day football works." 

And Mowbray says in the short time he has been back at Albion he has already offered his opinion on some transfer business for the future. 

He said: "I'm very relaxed. I have had a little input into some potential recruitment down the line.

"In fact, I did speak to a player the other day for the club, and he was saying some players that he's playing with or his best mate was actually enthusing because I'd managed them, and they were saying 'Oh you've got to go, Tony does this and he does that, you'll love it.' 

"That's good, it feels good, it's warm, it tickles your belly a little bit, there's people who you've managed actually talking really highly of you.

"The only ingredient I would try and input really would be as long as they're good human beings, as long as they are going to be part of the culture that we're trying to create an environment where they want to come into work and everybody gets on."