Regan Slater promises to help Hull City rival adjust to Walterball

The Tigers signed 15 new players in the transfer window, 12 after pre-season. Deadline-day signing Kasey Palmer will challenge Slater for his shirt.

The 24-year-old who has started all five games so far this season has promised to help where he can but Hull's complex style of football needs hours at their Cottingham training base to perfect.

Palmer will miss that initially as he is in Jamaica’s squad for coach Steve McClaren’s first games, Concacaf Nations League fixtures against Cuba and Honduras.

"It mainly needs to be done on the training ground but I can tell him what I'm experiencing in games, where I've been getting success and what's not been working and that can happen all around the pitch," said Slater. “It's a good group, we all want the same things – to win games of football – so we'll try and do everything we can to make sure we speed up the process.

"A lot of it is working off everyone else so you've got to be watching everyone and you have to understand quite a lot, to be fair, of what's going on.

"Everyone is trying but it's not just going to happen in a day.”

Palmer is well used to the league having made his debut in it as a goalscoring loanee at Huddersfield Town in 2016, but Tim Walter’s football is another thing altogether.

"When the gaffer first came in, it was foreign – something no one's ever done before,” admitted Slater. “But I think we (the players, like Slater, who were in for pre-season) have got a good understanding now and we can only improve and get better the more we keep doing it.

"It (the international break) gives everyone a bit of time to get used to a completely different style. We've had a bit more time than the lads who have come in during the season, of course, so it will be a nice foundation for them to just see what we're about as a team."

Hull's next game is at home to Slater’s first club Sheffield United a week on Friday.

Palmer is joined in the squad by Sheffield Wednesday’s Di’Shon Bernard and Barnsley’s Jon Russell.