Steve Bruce shares plans for West Brom talks with Stoke City loanee Romaine Sawyers
Romaine Sawyers could be set to play at West Brom next season after manager Steve Bruce revealed he would hold talks with the midfielder in the summer.
The Saint Kitts and Nevis international is currently on loan at Stoke City, ruling him out of the 3-1 defeat at the Hawthorns yesterday (9 April), after having not been part of previous manager Valerien Ismael’s plans, and his contract is set to expire this year.
But new boss Bruce is a fan and looks interested in extending the 30-year-old’s stay with the Baggies, with Express and Star reporting they hold an option on a further year.
Bruce said ahead of the Stoke game, via Express and Star: “He is in my thoughts,”
“I’ve always liked him as a player.
“I’ll sit down with him in the summer.
“He scored for Stoke in the week when he came on against Reading, he made a huge difference.
“The kid is a good footballer.”
Getting the band back together
The former Newcastle manager’s plans for next season are starting to take shape.
He appears to want to gather every available body and then make his own assessment during pre-season.
Having come in midseason, to a team in a mess, and with various long-term injuries, has hasn’t necessarily seen the true extent of what he has at his disposal.
Sawyers has been a central member of the Baggies squad in the Championship before so he could certainly be in line for a reintegration.
20 league appearances with two goals is not a world-beating return for his time with the Potters.
But with the midfield trio of Jake Livermore, Alex Mowatt and Taylor Gardner-Hickman the only one that has really functioned properly for Bruce, he will need more options as cover.
In other West Brom news, reporters were stunned by a “bizarre” incident in the loss to Stoke.
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