Ally Robertson: Too many 'if onlys' for West Brom – now Carlos Corberan must study market

We’ve got to make sure we get everything done for next season now, over these weeks and months.

For me, you look at the picture earlier in the season when we were down near the bottom, and then bottom after Carlos Corberan came in, and for us to get back up to a position where we could have got into the play-offs on the final day, we’ve got to say it’s been a good effort.

But if we’d have started right – again another “if only” – we would have been in the top four and pushing for automatic positions.

The team gave itself too much to do. We played how many great games but how many not so good games?

I always go back to being a defender, if you don’t give goals away then you will win games. How many silly goals did we give away? Too many.

Looking at the summer – will Carlos get money to spend?

I don’t think he will and now both us and the rest of the Championship will be looking into which players we can get in on loan. By the looks of it the head coach isn’t going to have any major funds to spend on anybody.

Marc Albrighton was the only loan signing this season, and he arrived in January. When you’re a club in the position we are, successful loans are what you need.

Albion have got to be smart in their transfer work this summer – but that is what we’ve always had to do. We’ve never been in a position to have however many millions to spend, maybe to a point in the Premier League era, but certainly not in more recent years.

We’ve got to make the best of what we’ve got.

Look back over the years, we’ve always had a player or two we could sell for quite a bit of money – who have we got at this moment who would fetch us in a bit of money?

It’s difficult for everybody at this moment in time at the club. We can just hope to get something going.

It is not always easy to move players on even if you want to do so to look after the books.

If we would have had a strong end to the season, a great run where we were playing really well, then more people would be looking at the players.

When you’ve had an up and down finish like we have, the bigger teams will look at it and think ‘well, they didn’t do it every week’.

Whatever players come in to the club – where they are from, as long they are good enough for the job – that to me is more important than where they have come in from.

Whether it’s Portugal, Egypt, Spain, wherever, if they are good enough for the job then fair enough. We’ve seen players arrive abroad to the Championship and do ever so well.

I’m confident Carlos can get them going and we can have a positive season next time.