West Brom: Romaine Sawyers rinsed Albion

West Bromwich Albion have been answerable for the occasional switch blunder over current years, lots of which stood as massive dangers to both guarantee their survival or security, relying on which division they had been in on the time.

While some have been dearer than others, Romaine Sawyers is one which stands out as fairly a major misstep regardless of the full expenditure solely being £3.6m.

Have been you dissatisfied with Romaine Sawyers at West Brom?

Signed in 2019 for £3m from Championship rivals Brentford, there have been excessive hopes for the attacking midfielder who had simply registered seven assists the season prior.

Nonetheless, 153 weeks and 64 appearances later, the 30-year-old would register simply one objective and one help throughout his profession on the Hawthorns.

What makes this even worse is that each of those contributions got here throughout the 2019/20 season.

The £12.5k-per-week dud has since hung out on mortgage at Stoke Metropolis earlier than becoming a member of Cardiff Metropolis this yr, the place he registered five objective contributions for the Potters in a single season and already has two targets this time period for the Bluebirds.

It appeared like they’d carried out an actual coup with this deal initially, however because it has became one thing of a nightmare for the Baggies.

Though Steve Madeley tried to reward Sawyers for a formidable 45 minutes in November of 2020, he nonetheless admitted that “he’s had some poor games”. Together with his statistics to point out, that looks as if one thing of a gross understatement.

In his debut season on the Hawthorns, he featured in all 42 Championship video games and but created simply three massive probabilities.

The truth that he additionally missed zero massive probabilities is much more damning than had he missed lots. At the least then that may counsel he had been unfortunate, however was in the correct areas.

The one promising facets of his recreation that yr had been his 68% dribble success charge, and 90% go accuracy, nonetheless, this paints the image of a protected and unspectacular participant. West Brom wanted way more than that from their attacking midfielder.

Though the monetary outlay has not bankrupted the Midlands membership, it nonetheless represents treasured cash wasted that they clearly couldn’t afford this season, as they spent simply £1.21m this summer season.

Sawyers was a disappointment and a sure waste of cash.