After what was quite frankly, a disastrous return to the Premier League, Scott Parker has had the summer to assess the direction he needs to take Fulham in to secure an immediate return to the top flight. 

Last season Fulham splurged an astonishing £104.85 million on player transfers, with a majority of the imports not possessing adequate Premier League experience.

However, despite this they still managed to snare German international Andre Schurrle on loan from Borussia Dortmund, who for the first few weeks of the season at least seemed to be an astute bit of business by the Cottagers.

Alas, as we all know, these incomings were not enough to maintain their Premier League status as a whole host of poor defensive displays confounded them to another season back in the Championship. Which now poses the question, where do they go from here?

Firstly, it is important to assess the transfer business that Parker has conducted in the summer window which has just gone by, he has overseen something of a gradual transformation of the squad, with several players including the likes of Ryan Sessegnon to Spurs for £24.30 million and Jean Michel Seri on a season-long loan to Galatasaray, departing the club for pastures new.

In their place, the Fulham boss has sprinkled the squad with a large amount of proven Championship players, such as the mercurial talents of wingers Ivan Cavaleiro, on loan from Wolves and Anthony Knockaert, also on a season-long loan from Brighton.

Whilst strengthening his forward options, Parker has also looked to sure up his midfield options with the loan signings of Harry Arter of Bournemouth and Harrison Reed from Southampton, both of which seem to be smart additions as they have both performed well at this level in the past at Bournemouth (Arter) and on loan at Blackburn (Reed).

However, Fulham's best piece of business this summer was most definitely holding onto striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, with his value to the Whites being underlined by his early season from as the Serbian international has found the back of the net on five occasions in Fulham's first six league games this term.

Mitrovic's goal scoring ability as well as being able to hold onto the ball and bring others into play will certainly work well with Cavaleiro and Knockaert playing either side of him in Parker's preferred 4-3-3 formation.

And this has so far proved to be the case with Cavaleiro contributing three goals and two assists so far, in addition to Frenchman Knockaert also chipping in with a solitary strike.

The experienced additions which have been brought in by Parker will stand the Whites in good stead this season as they compliment what is an already talented squad consisting of the likes of Tom Cairney and Alfie Mawson, and it is for this reason that many are tipping them for an instant return to the top flight come the end of the season.