West Brom midfielder Quevin Castro is now in last chance saloon after loan move
Quevin Castro did not last long on his previous loan away from West Brom but he will be hoping for better this time around.
The 21-year-old was sent out to League One strugglers Burton Albion under Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink before the 2022-23 season began but he quickly has his loan terminated after just one game in the third tier.
Hasselbaink was later sacked after a slow start for the Brewers but Castro was left searching for a new opportunity on loan but knew that it couldn’t come in the Football League with the transfer window closed.
Luckily for the six-foot-four midfielder, Notts County have come to his rescue and he is now set for a period on loan in the National League where he will hope to propel one of the country’s oldest clubs to promotion back to League Two.
And for his career at West Brom to continue beyond the end of this season, he had better find a way to do just that because Steve Bruce won’t entertain playing someone who could not dominate the fifth tier in the highly-competitive Championship.
Theoretically, he could return to The Hawthorns in January and play for Bruce’s side in the second half of the season but the FA rules state that a player can’t play for more than two teams in one season.
That would mean that as soon as he features for County, he would be ineligible to play for West Brom until next season which would make his return to The Hawthorns pointless in January.
For the good of himself and Albion, he needs to perform well enough to have his loan extended for the season so he can keep playing games or be so good that the Brewers want to take him back to League One.
But it feels very much like last chance saloon for Castro now after one failed loan collapsed so soon after it began and a drop in division to compound his misery.
In other West Brom news, after the signing of Tom Rogic on Monday (12 September) this journalist has suggested that the Baggies are not done yet.