Tony Mowbray travelled to Europe again after the Norwich City defeat in a bid to find players who can add more creativity to the Rovers side.

Rovers were beaten 2-1 at Norwich who secured their promotion to the Premier League with a team built around players recruited from across the European leagues.

Mowbray has spent time, with his recruitment department, identifying players who he feels can take the club forward.

The boss believes the European market offers high quality, and good value, and is keen to supplement his squad which currently sits 14th in the table heading in to the final weekend.

While Mowbray believes his side has plenty of character and desire, it’s a touch of quality on the ball that he’s looking to add.

“I’m sure they will improve the squad,” Mowbray said of his targets.

“No football team can stand-still, you have to keep progressing.

“I was reading before the (Norwich) game, how they found some players that no-one had heard of before from Germany, some South Americans, and they are very technical footballers.

“As I’ve said before Brentford have players who are matchwinners.

“We have to go and look hard and see if we can find the creativity that can go with our spirit and our camaraderie which is as good as anyone.

“We just need to help the team if we can.”

Rovers were 2-0 down inside the opening quarter at Norwich, trailing to long-range strikes from Marco Stiepermann and Mario Vrancic.

They improved thereafter, helped by Lewis Travis’ first senior goal which brought them back in to the game on the 24th minute.

Mowbray introduced Ben Brereton, Craig Conway and Harry Chapman in the second half in a bid to find an equaliser, though Rovers were grateful to some good Jayson Leutwiler saves, and the woodwork, to restrict Norwich to two goals.

But Mowbray said his team may well have crumbled when 2-0 down six weeks ago when going through their difficult run of form.

He added: “We got better as the game went on.

“I felt a bit of anxiety which is what we were looking to do.

“They had chances, but we made positive changes and looked to push on.

“We asked questions of them for spells, but ultimately it wasn’t enough.”