West Bromwich Albion boss Alan Irvine admits he knows little about record signing Brown Ideye.
Technical director Terry Burton gave the go-ahead after the 25-year-old was watched extensively by scouts.
Irvine said: "It would be fantastic if he could have the same impact as Peter Odemwingie did.
I don't know much about Brown Ideye - I've not seen him live, but people we trust have done.
"It's not necessarily something that is detrimental to me not to have seen him live, though ideally I would like to because that's how I like to do my work.
"But we've done our research on him and what we have done is found decent players in the past in this way."
