WANDERERS managed to sign SIX players in the January transfer window but still bring down costs.

After a frantic transfer deadline day, which saw Manchester United’s Saidy Janko, Celtic’s Filip Twardzik, Crystal Palace’s Barry Bannan and Sporting Lisbon’s Simeon Slavchev added to the squad, Lennon declared himself pleased with the business done.

Big earners such as Chung-Yong Lee and Keith Andrews signed for Crystal Palace and MK Dons respectively, while another, Jay Spearing, joined Blackburn Rovers last week.

Adding loanees Adam Le Fondre and Rochinha to the mix, Lennon said the overall wage bill had been slashed, meaning costs were now well in line with Financial Fair Play guidelines.

“My own opinion is that we were paying players too much in the first place,” he said.

“I’ve come from Celtic, where you learn to be frugal. Whether it works or not remains to be seen but we’ve got players in who are not on great money but hungry to play.

“It was important to get things tidied up in terms of the wage bill because we had the spectre of FFP hanging over us as well. I don’t think we’ll have that going forward.”

Lennon has lined up deals for Northern Irish youngster Daniel Hughes and Dutch defender Nick Kuipers, which could be completed at the end of the season and is understood to have had a late bid rejected for a another foreign-based full-back.

But the manager believes there is now a brighter financial outlook at the club.

“When you have the Premier League on your doorstep it’s easy to peer in at the neighbours and think ‘ooh I fancy a bit of that,’ and buy someone,” he said.

“It’s the same at Celtic even though they are a huge club. They had to be sensible and creative with who they brought in.

“We’ve got players from lots of parts of the world. I think we’ve got a great player in Barry Bannan for the Chungy deal – he’s a good player at this level, and a Scotland international.

“You have to think about going forward in the summer too and spending a bit of money then if we can’t do it now.

“But all in all I’d have to say I am very pleased with the business we got done.”