Tony Mowbray’s clarifies transfer stance after West Brom decision.
Tony Mowbray did not want prospect Caleb Taylor to feel the “odd one out” and struggle for game time back to Albion.
The 22-year-old central defender was granted a return to loan club Wycombe this week having been back at The Hawthorns this month with the expectation he was going to play.
But Taylor’s only action since his recall at the beginning of January was a start in the heavily rotated FA Cup at Bournemouth and Mowbray admitted, with other defenders returning to fitness, chances could be few and far between.
“His impression was that he was brought back to play and that wasn’t the case, or it hasn’t played out like that,” admitted Mowbray.
Uroš Račić returns to Sassuolo.
Albion can confirm midfielder Uroš Račić has returned to parent club Sassuolo, subject to international clearance.
The 26-year-old made 22 appearances while on loan with the Baggies.
The club wishes Uroš all the very best for his future career.
“Big Kyle has now been training the last three days and so has big Semi, even though I think he’s 10 days or a fortnight away. Kyle will be travelling with the squad (to Plymouth) and be involved at the weekend.
“I didn’t want the kid to be the odd one out. You don’t need to put centre-backs on the bench, you’d rather put a young striker or winger from the under-21s on the bench rather than two or three central defenders.
“I could see a scenario when he could be behind Bartley or Ajayi, my opinion was he should probably go to play some football between now and the summer and come back in pre-season. I don’t know at this moment what is going to happen contractually with some senior players, but he can come back, play in pre-season, let me get some confidence and belief.”
Mowbray is not ready to potentially put the club’s play-off tilt at risk by experimenting heavily with his starting XI as he tries to assess the squad he inherited from Carlos Corberan.
