It’s plainly obvious Royal is a squad player to replace Garcia. What’s the issue?
The issue I'd have is that I'd prefer to spend money on younger players who can initially compete with, and eventually replace the older bodies.
Rather than spending money on players just to pad out the squad.
We’ve just done that twice and neither came off.
We are doing that in other areas of the squad as well, but I guess he just wants someone he might need to trust, a bit like Lindelöf for the right back role if Cash can’t play.
There’s no way we’re buying competition for every place in the side which Brontë is suggesting. In an ideal world and we had the revenue for this league, then maybe. But we haven’t.
My guess (and it is entirely that) is that we rate Rowe highly so we're looking for someone who can do the role for 18months or so whilst we get him another loan and push to see if he will be able to step up.
I think that might be true in a few positions as well; Mosquera, Cisse, Madjo, JJA, Young, Alysson, Burrowes and Proctor (and maybe a few more) all feel like they're being given the chance to 'earn' a place in the first team squad which is why we're not overly worried about the age of players in their positions.
