While the ballyhoo of the transfer window won’t properly kick in until the end of the month, what Wrexham will do in terms of recruitment is a question which everybody seems to be raising at the moment. It’s a question with a simple answer: the people in decision-making positions at the club have already told us.

Michael Williamson, the club’s CEO, has already said that we will have more of a predatory, opportunistic approach to the January window.

That makes perfect sense. We built a new squad in the Summer, and having now bedded in our thirteen new players, ripping up and starting again would be something of an admission of failure.

Let’s be straight, our Summer recruitment and subsequent performances has been anything but a failure.

That doesn’t mean we’ll be inactive this month. Freshening a squad up with a couple of new faces is a tested and true approach in January, and we’ve done so effectively under Parkinson.

The likes of Ryan Barnett, Ollie Palmer, Tom O’Connor, Sam Smith, Ryan Longman, Eoghan O’Connell and Andy Cannon came to us mid-season, and made terrific impacts in both the short and long terms. They’re certainly not the only ones.

As Williamson told us, we’ll look to be opportunistic. If a player becomes available who can improve us, we’re in a position to pounce. Standing, as we are, on the cusp of the play-off places to the Premier League, we’d be daft not to.

However, there’s no necessity to jump into the market, and despite what some outlets suggest, we won’t be tempted away from the overall strategy by the proximity of the promised land.

Taking transfer gambles isn’t what has got us this far – our transfer success rate under Parkinson is astonishingly good – and we won’t be changing something that works.

That’s not what this ownership is about: they don’t cast around hopefully for solutions, throwing money at problems and hoping some of it sticks; they developed a plan and have stuck to it.

This might not be what a particular kind of modern fan wants to hear. The cult of the transfer window, led by its high priest Jim White, who presides over Sky Sports’ addictive deadline day coverage in his iconic yellow tie, has many loyal worshippers.

They seem to enjoy the drama, clickbait and speculation more than the football, and that’s fine. It’s not how football really works though: the January transfer window is the domain of the savvy and the desperate. If you aren’t aiming to do what we’re planning this month, things have gone wrong.

The other reason we know there won’t be too much change this month is what Phil Parkinson told us recently. Tellingly, while certainly not ruling out additions to his squad, he suggested there is plenty still to come from the players already here.

I completely agree. A squad can receive a mid-season boost if current players get a chance to fully show what they can do.

An obvious place to start is at wing-back. For me, Issa Kabore and Liberato Cacace were remarkable signings last Summer. They have quality in abundance, and we’ve seen that clearly already.

However, they haven’t been able to influence the first half as much as they would have liked through a combination of injury and AFCON.

Neither player has a history of injuries, so there’s every reason to hope they will be available for the remainder of the season. Considering the excellent results we’ve strung together in their absence, adding them to our side is an exciting prospect.

We’ve already seen the impact Ollie Rathbone is having after returning from injury, and there’s clearly more to come from him: remember, he’s only started two league games so far this season.

We could have similar impacts from the likes of Andy Cannon, Elliot Lee and Jay Rodriguez. I want to focus on Rodriguez, because he have a very interesting part to play in the remainder of the season.

Many don’t fully appreciate the role he played in our promotion campaign last season. Allow me to blow your mind with the difference in our performance last season when he was playing.

Rodriguez was excellent at dropping from his second striker role and plugging gaps when we lost the ball. The extra support the defensive unit enjoyed when he was on the pitch is clear: we conceded a goal every 147 minutes when he was there, and every 105 when he wasn’t!

That’s virtually one goal fewer every two games. What an incredible impact, and that’s in a team which was already defensively excellent. If you extrapolate that out over the whole season, we’d have conceded 26 goals less.

I know you can’t put all that down to one man, but it was obvious he was offering extra solidity off the ball at the time. The stats clearly bear that out.

Is your mind blown yet? If not, I’ve got nothing left!

Parkinson is right. Players like the ones I’ve mentioned have more to give, and could all enjoy better second halves to the season than what they’ve managed already.

The same could also be said of Ryan Hardie, if he can shake off his injury and get the opportunity. He’s a proven scorer at Championship level, and his goal at Preston showed what he can do when given the chance.

Even Nathan Broadhead and Josh Windass, who have both been hampered by injuries, haven’t been able to fully produce what they’re capable of. Accommodating them both in a box midfield has offered a tantalising glimpse of how we can step things up further with the players we already have.

I’ll enjoy seeing new recruits coming in as much as anyone, but this squad has already shown what it can do. Parky did try to tell you!