Source: SKY_Sports
Mowbray tracking targets
Tony Mowbray has already begun his preparations for next season by indentifying potential new recruits.[LNB] West Brom are still battling for their Premier League lives but their manager knows it is vital he puts plans in place regarding summer transfer activity.[LNB]The Baggies boss has therefore taken a look at two players he feels could strengthen his squad for the 2009/10 campaign.[LNB]Firstly, Mowbray has run the rule over Swindon's promising young forward Simon Cox.[LNB]He said: "The day I went to watch him they got beat 1-0 by Leyton Orient and he didn't influence the game much.[LNB]"You are assuming he is the player I went to see. I didn't walk around with a big sticker on my forehead saying 'I am watching Simon Cox'[LNB]"I understand the boy Cox has scored lots of goals. I wasn't impressed on the one day I saw him and yet the game before, when a member of my stafff watched Swindon play at Northampton, he scored a hat-trick.[LNB]Job"It is my job to watch players when I can.[LNB]"When you go to lower leagues games, with your mug on the TV so much, everyone knows you are there so it gets dripped out. 'Who is he watching, it's a done deal, we are buying him' and stuff like that."[LNB]While remaining coy on his possible interest in Cox, Mowbray did invite Livingston's 18-year-old striker Leigh Griffiths for a trial this week, and was impressed by what he saw.[LNB]"I think Leigh is a young boy with potential," he told the club's official website.[LNB]"He has scored a few goals (17 in 25 starts for Livingston this season).[LNB]"We had a look at him in training and he has gone back now because he's got a game on Saturday.[LNB]"After discussions we'll see if we take it any further.[LNB]"He's a young boy who wouldn't be coming to go into our first team squad. If we decide to do anything further he would be a lad to come and compete with our other young players."[LNB]Injury newsMeanwhile, Mowbray has also experienced mixed news on the injury front ahead of a weekend clash with fellow strugglers Sunderland.[LNB]"Roman (Bednar) and Shelton (Martis) are training and they'll be in the squad," he said.[LNB]"(James) Morrison's got a heel injury, though, that will keep him out at the weekend.[LNB]"He's had it for a few months and he's been soldiering on but it's got too sore. We'll have to wait for it to settle down.[LNB]"Will it require surgery? I don't know. We have got to wait and see."[LNB]
