The South African moved from Porto to Blackburn this season on a 2.5 million-pound (C$5.3 million) transfer.

``It's early days for Benni,'' Hughes said. ``I feel the expectations are a little too high. He has come into a different league, we are only four games in and yet people are expecting him to have a huge impact.

``He'll have an impact at this level and very quickly get stronger as a Premier League player, that's for sure.''