Huddersfield Town's best and worst signings from each of the last ten transfer windows

Huddersfield Town are working their way through the summer transfer window in hopes of maintaining the form that took them to the brink of promotion last season, and they have plenty of positive and negative experiences to draw from over the past few years.

The last ten transfer windows have featured some very notable successes, some really poor business, and a fair few mixed bags in between. To help us recap, we have picked out the best and worst signings from each window over the past five years, starting with the January just gone and working our way backwards.

For these purposes, we’re generally not considering permanent signings that came at the end of loan spells (hence no Aaron Mooy, for instance) – but we have made one notable exception to that…

Well this is an awkward way to start. We swear we have proper picks for every other window, but it’s very difficult to either single out any of Town’s most recent round of January signings for particular praise or criticism.

Tino Anjorin, Jamal Blackman and Carel Eiting played very limited minutes for various reasons, with the Chelsea loanee struggling to recover from injury, the goalkeeper acting as back-up to Lee Nicholls, and the Dutchman finding himself behind the emerging Jon Russell in the pecking order.

With all three announced to be leaving this summer, there is no real lasting legacy from the more recent window – not that that’s a criticism. They did alright regardless in the end, didn’t they?

There are plenty of contenders for this one, but we have to go with the landslide player of the year, don’t we? The goalkeeper’s signing from the bench at League One Milton Keynes Dons was quite simply a brilliant bit of scouting.

A move that Leigh Bromby described as