FA Cup fourth round tie an opportunity to embed new players

Scott Parker may look to use the FA Cup fourth round tie with Southampton to let his new players get used to the way his side plays.

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00:00I think there's probably a likelihood that we can integrate the new players into this fixture,

00:06give them some minutes, get them up to speed and tread carefully because obviously they've

00:11just come in, it's always difficult January window, players coming in, probably players

00:16coming in have probably lacked a little bit of game time so we need to tread carefully around

00:20that but certainly it'd be an opportunity for us maybe to use that. You spend a six-week pre-season

00:25as a coach coming into a new environment and you set down some principles and some core values and

00:31some expectations of what you expect and they've been ingrained in the team. I think everyone,

00:39the players who have been with us throughout the course of pre-season and even now,

00:42the players who have been here understand that a January window brings in new players

00:48and at that point you have to probably revert back a little bit and give the players coming

00:53in an understanding of what they're coming and what's expected of them. That added to the fact

00:58that players coming in in January sometimes are maybe a little bit short or have not played a lot

01:02of football and that's what a window, a January window brings so the last thing I want to do is

01:08push here or push too hard and we lose players so we need to be careful and tread carefully with

01:14training, game minutes while also trying to get them up to speed as quickly as we can Scott because

01:20that's why these players are in, they're in to come and help us for the remainder part of this year really.