CHRIS Evans is sure that Wanderers’ patient approach will pay-off in the transfer stakes.

Some supporters are looking on anxiously at the club’s lack of activity in the first week of the window, compared to some of their Premier League rivals.

Newly-promoted Wolves, for instance, completed their sixth signing of the summer at the weekend with the capture of Ronald Zubar, while the only new face in the camp when Wanderers come back to training tomorrow afternoon will be Sean Davis, signed on a free transfer from Portsmouth.

It would appear that Gary Megson has plenty of work to do this summer to build his squad to an acceptable size. He used just 24 different players last term, including three loanees — Ariza Makukula, Ebi Smolarek and Sebastien Puygrenier — and Kevin Nolan, who left the club in January for Newcastle United.

Barring an unexpected offer, Blerim Dzemaili’s transfer to Torino is likely to be the only out-bound activity at the Reebok this summer, leaving the manager needing at least four signings to break even.

But Megson has found completing transfers tough going so far — with protracted deals for Paul Robinson and Ferrie Bodde held up by a mixture of circumstance and personality.

Both Jeremy Peace and Huw Jenkins, chairmen of the respective clubs Wanderers are trying to do business with, are keen to show their own supporters that they are driving a hard bargain.

In the case of the former, Peace’s past history with Megson from his time at the Hawthorns as manager would also appear to be delaying matters.

And Jenkins has taken the rather unusual approach of denying publicly that negotiations are on-going — contrary to much of the information currently flowing from the Liberty Stadium and the Dutchman’s camp.

Several other tentative enquiries have been made, although the majority of the Whites’ effort thus far has gone into hammering out their existing offers.

It is a calculated policy, claims Evans, who, perhaps eluding to Sammy Lee’s exhaustive shopping spree two years earlier, says the club will avoid rushing into the transfer market. “Nothing that happens overnight can be sustainable,” he said. “We are being deliberately methodical in our approach because we realise the importance of this transfer window in what we are trying to do at the club.

“We have seen an incredible number of players leave this football club, and it is well documented that only a few of them are now playing Premier League football.”