Efforts to justify surprise Nottingham Forest exit for player continue – Newspaper joins endorsements from national icon

It perhaps wasn’t one of the more eye-catching bits of business Nottingham Forest did at the end of January, but Brandon Aguilera’s move to Bristol Rovers on loan was certainly eyebrow raising.

It’s not very often that a Premier League player makes the switch to League One, albeit on loan, and it’s certainly caused a few waves back in the midfielder’s homeland.

They’re less than impressed by the switch for one of their hopes for the future and there’s been a distinct effort to paint it in a positive light ever since, with La Nacion joining that today.

Over the weekend, national icon Paulo Wanchope was busy praising the move and pointing out the positives and the newspaper continue that today.

They say that it’s actually a case of a glass half full for the Nottingham Forest man, despite a move to England’s third tear appearing to ‘reflect a setback’ at first.

They argue that, looked at in a certain way, League One can be perceived as the ‘great exception’ when it comes to third divisions around the world.

Their belief is actually that League One ranks higher than some of the leagues that would be considered ‘superior’ in Europe and provide the reasoning for that argument to boot.

First there is the footballers in it, most of whom have played in the Championship in the past, a league the newspaper says is ‘one of the best in the world’.

Then there’s the teams who make up the league, some of whom, like Wigan, were playing in the Premier League not long ago. This shows ‘competitiveness is very high’ and so are the salary conditions, another plus point.

They also point out that a significant number of Premier League clubs have youngsters training in the league, something which ‘guarantees a competition with high technical conditions’. Indeed, they, and many other player in the league are being closely watched by those above them, another indicator of League One’s strength according to La Nacion.

Last but not least, they argue that it simply makes sense for Aguilera to be somewhere he is getting regular football and maintaining his rhythm.

They admit it would have been better if he could have stayed at Nottingham Forest and done that, but it wasn’t to be so Bristol Rovers it is, a move which everyone is insisting is a ‘glass half full’ scenario and not the opposite.