O'Bika only becomes surplus to requirements once Hosky and/or CMS are fully available. You sometimes need the "last kid to be picked" to make up the numbers.
Spanish Rodney has been signed on a short term contract until the end of the season , Tracey O'Bika is only here on a 93 day loan. I think O'Bika is only hanging on in there because CMS is out for a few more weeks.
He didn't just turn up last minute too. Flew down yesterday , had a medical at The Amex and the obligatory photo holding up the shirt in the evening and was training this morning with the rest of the squad.
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