There were few Cardiff City summer signings which piqued this writer's interest more than Romaine Sawyers.
Every time the midfielder played against the Bluebirds, he always impressed. When Neil Warnock's Cardiff side were dismantled 4-2 at The Hawthorns back in 2019, Sawyers was terrific; he bossed the game.
It was strange, then, to see him fall out of favour after Slaven Bilic's departure from the Midlands club. Having seen him operate both in a playmaker role and in a deeper-lying, quarter-back style role, he appeared to be a jigsaw piece Cardiff had been missing since their own drop back down from the Premier League.
