I'm not refusing to acknowledge at all. Sometimes injuries, the quality of the squad etc force Hughton's hand - thus the 5 starters v Man City as you point out.
Sometimes he eases them in (Scheletto, Izquierdo although he started pretty early on) or not (Locadia).
And sometimes he doesn't. Its...
No worries. There's no real pattern with how Hughton introduces new signings. Scheletto, Locadia, and Izquierdo (to a certain extent) weren't played in the first 11 straight away last season and fit into the idea that he *always* eases in new signings and he might do this with Alireza etc...