Gerrad move looks like being a permanent one.

"We'd love to, when the time comes. But I'm not going to say anything more than that as, at the moment, we quite honestly couldn't afford him. I'm not going to say anything daft like we're hoping to sign him." Said Royal.

"He's here for an initial month and then we'll go from there. The next month and then hopefully two more are a long time. As it stands, he's on an instant recall to Everton if they have a goalkeeping problem. But David Moyes is a great friend of mine and Bill Kenwright's very close to our chairman as well as myself."