If January is a month for restraint and cutting back, football begins each year dutifully following the memo. Another transfer window might have opened across Europe but, in stark contrast to the lavishness of summer, spending will be mostly reluctant and circumspect.

The winter transfer window is open, and shutting later than usual this year, at 11pm on February 3. Many of Yorkshire clubs have already dipped their toes into the market with ingoings and outgoings.