Swansea City manager Brendan Rodgers believes Neil Taylor's decision to choose the club over Newcastle United has now been vindicated.
The Welsh left-back was targeted by the Magpies in the summer with the club making a £1million bid but he decided to sign a four-year deal with the Swans.
Rodgers feels that Taylor, who has started 14 Premier League matches so far this season, made the right choice in staying at the Liberty Stadium rather than heading to Newcastle where the Welsh club travel on Saturday.
"If you are going to be sat on the bench, you might as well sit there 10 times richer.
"But it wasn't really about salary with Neil and us. Of course he needed to be brought into line in terms of wages, but the most important thing to him in all our conversations was where I saw him in my plans.
"I said I felt if he played regular football with us he could go on and be one of the top left-backs in the Premier League, and I think he has shown he can do that.
"The great thing is that he is only going to get better.""When Newcastle came in, I had to confirm to him how I saw his development - as a player you need that," Rodgers said in the South Wales Evening Post.
