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Owen Coyle: Brough Ream and Sordell in J
Bolton boss Owen Coyle feels the club have made sound use of the funds that came from Gary Cahill's sale to Chelsea.
Since Cahill left for a reported £7million, Coyle has brought in another centre-half in Tim Ream, 24, from the New York Red Bulls, and 20-year-old striker Marvin Sordell from Watford.
Ream is a full United States international and Sordell has six caps and two goals to his name for England Under-21s.
And given their respective ages, Coyle believes their acquisition also represents good business off the pitch.
"I think we all accepted that Gary was going to go and once it was decided on the football side that it would happen, what we had to do on the business side was look to try to maximise the situation that we were in," Coyle said.
"In doing that, we have then reinvested that money. We have not gone and spent the money on 32 or 33-year-olds where there is very little or no resale value.
"We have tried to invest it in young players who will become assets for the football club and whose value will appreciate.
"That is opposed to a quick fix, somebody who will do you a turn for a year and then all of a sudden you are back to square one. We are not in a situation where we feel we need to be doing that.
"I always look to try to put in place a plan where you invest in youth and bring them on year by year."
Sordell's move was finally confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and the player revealed he knew nothing about it until the last minute.
Sordell said: "I heard about it on Tuesday (deadline day). I was originally set to go to Cardiff and I got a call later on asking if I wanted to go to Bolton.
"Obviously I said yes, it was a no-brainer really. Straight away I said 'let's get it done'.
"I didn't expect it at all. I was ready to stay at Watford the rest of the season. Now I just want to do as well as I can here.
"The manager has brought me here because he believes in me and I want to repay that faith by going out and scoring lots of goals."
Coyle has no doubts that Sordell - who has scored 10 goals for Watford this season and 27 in total for the npower Championship outfit since making his senior debut in 2009 - is ready to make the step up to the Barclays Premier League.
The former Burnley manager believes the standard of English football's second tier should not be underestimated - with the success enjoyed by Saturday's opponents Norwich a prime example.
"I don't think it was a conscious decision in terms of looking in the lower leagues," Coyle added.
"I wouldn't class it as a lower league really because I think the Championship is one of the best leagues in Europe and absolutely there are good players out there," Coyle said.
"Sometimes there is a snobbery because everyone looks at the Premier League, but there are good players in good teams in other divisions.
"You look at the teams that have been promoted. Last year people would have looked and thought that most of their lads were just Championship players, but far from it.
"They have come into the Premier League and evolved and showed their quality. You only have to look at Norwich for that. They have been outstanding individually and collectively and they make for very dangerous opponents."
Bolton take on the 11th-placed Canaries at Carrow Road looking to sustain the recent momentum which has seen them move out of the relegation zone and up to 17th.
Midfielder Ryo Miyaichi, who also joined on deadline day on loan from Arsenal for the rest of the season, and Sordell could both be set for their Wanderers debuts, but Ream is flying in from the United States too late to be considered for selection.
Fellow defender Gretar Steinsson is a major doubt having picked up a knock in Wednesday's 0-0 draw with the Gunners.
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