Luke Cundle: Millwall midfielder on signing on Friday and scoring debut winner on Saturday

Cundle made the move from Premier League side Wolves having made seven appearances for his boyhood club and spending much of the last two-and-a-half years on loan in the Championship at Swansea, Plymouth Argyle and Stoke City.

With 72 appearances notched up in the second tier in that time, he was keen to join a club where he could continue his development at that level.

“It was time to move on from my previous club. I’d been there a long time and I wanted to go and play Championship football again,” he said.

Much of the attention had focused on outgoings earlier in the transfer window, and specifically Romain Esse’s drawn out transfer to Crystal Palace.

But once their homegrown star’s future was resolved, with the club banking a fee reported to be as much as £14.5m, incomings were very much on the agenda.

Attacking midfielder Cundle, 22, was the fourth addition to Alex Neil’s squad after Connolly’s move from Wearside, defender Tristan Crama was brought in from Brentford and 18-year-old striker Ajay Matthews joined from Middlesbrough.

Club record signing Camiel Neghli followed Cundle through the door from Sparta Rotterdam on January 31.

Before a manic deadline day saw winger Benicio Baker arrive from Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea’s Zak Sturge brought in on loan, as well as the return of Zak Lovelace – the club’s second youngest ever player – from Rangers.

In total, Neil made eight signings.