[tuamigos]

There's a old saying "there's no such thing has bad press has long has they spell your wright" so let's not even write about him on here. He is a spoilt young man who prays to god (thanking him for all the money he thinks he will make out of football) for guidance.
That being the case god guide him the f---k away from us, the quicker the better.
My very last post on numb nuts till he's gone.

who the  **** said that? Quasimodo?

[timdon]

Aaaaaah, 13 days without any discussion about the knobheaded one. Thought it was too good to last. So, overweight eh? Was that not the case back at the start of the summer? Personal fitness trainer at his own expense etc etc? Determined to get back to his previous sharpness etc etc? We had better not end up with this idiot signing a new fabulous contract making him the club's highest player and tying him down to us for the next 100 years etc etc. If this happens, I will be several stages up from apopleptic

[paulosull]

This kid has had bad advice from day one, once Albion turned down transfer interest should have left his football do the talking. The club is to blame for his loss in form and fitness and it beggers belief that a top asset of wbafc has fallen so far.

[WBAinDEVON]

This kid has had bad advice from day one, once Albion turned down transfer interest should have left his football do the talking. The club is to blame for his loss in form and fitness and it beggers belief that a top asset of wbafc has fallen so far.

I do agree with you, its shocking management all round

[Dexy]

This kid has had bad advice from day one, once Albion turned down transfer interest should have left his football do the talking. The club is to blame for his loss in form and fitness and it beggers belief that a top asset of wbafc has fallen so far.

The lads a bad egg , has been even at Brentford and Peterborough before he got near our first team. His talent and star has faded and that's down to him , stopped learning , developing and working. Say what you want about Pulis but he's put himself out time and time again for Saido , I think even he's had enough now.
Only so many times you can lead a horse to water , i expect him to fade away down the divisions with trouble following him.Sad really.

[mulliganstired]

I wonder if some of the reports are right and he might sign a new contract and be given a fresh start under new management?

[Fritzl Palace]

I would hope not, unless that contract is on the same £12,000 per week that he is currently on as he justifies nothing more than that.

[Atomic]

Just get rid of him he's a waste of space.

[adamw1109]

So apparently THE CLUB have put him on this training programme to get him to the correct weight and fit again..... obviously he is in their plans otherwise they wouldn't bother.

Will be interesting to see how it all pans out.

[dont ask me to choose luv]

who the  **** said that? Quasimodo?

Thank you, that made me chuckle for a couple of minutes 

[wba13]

Might not be in there plans they need to get him fit to get any value out of him even if he leaves for free.

[adamw1109]

Might not be in there plans they need to get him fit to get any value out of him even if he leaves for free.

The only way he is going to be worth anything is if he's playing and giving people a reason to want to buy him.

Would you buy something you didn't see working?

Don't be shocked if you see him in a baggies shirt again.

[timdon]

This kid has had bad advice from day one, once Albion turned down transfer interest should have left his football do the talking. The club is to blame for his loss in form and fitness and it beggers belief that a top asset of wbafc has fallen so far.

What beggars belief in my opinion is that there are people still defending Saido. Firstly he is not a "kid" any more, so that is no longer a valid reason for anything. Secondly, what "bad advice" has he received exactly? And "from day 1"? Presumably that means he shouldn't have even signed for us in the first place? And how on earth have you reached the conclusion that the club is to blame  for his loss of form and fitness? To me, you seem to come up with a lot of opinions without any evidence to try to justify lack of professionalism, sulking, and immaturity. Are you a relative perhaps?

[WBArgo]

This kid has had bad advice from day one, once Albion turned down transfer interest should have left his football do the talking. The club is to blame for his loss in form and fitness and it beggers belief that a top asset of wbafc has fallen so far.

Here's a list of his 'antics' over his career:

Age 19 - sent back from Brentford early by Uwe Rosler due to having a bad attitude.
Age 20 - supposedly gets lamped by Morrison after the Cardiff game due to his attitude and not caring about the result, which happened under Mel at the time.
Age 21 - Gets banned from driving for 12 months due to pleading guilty to drink driving. This is a very, very serious offense, which happened under Irvine at the time.
Age 22/23 - Falls out with the chairman and becomes overweight twice, the first time was last season, now it has happened again. This happened under Tony Pulis.

So that's literally one incident per year that we know about, under 4 different managers and two different clubs, as well as two different chairmen and various different coaches, technical directors etc.

How can 'the club' be blamed for his antics? It is quite clear at this stage that it is him who is the problem as all arrows point towards his behaviour. Is the club meant to wipe his backside or is he dependent for everything else?

[Jordie1471]

Also

April 2014 - Reprimanded by club for Inhaling laughing gas in his car
Aug 2016 - Allegedly sending multiple snapchat videos while in the fast lane of the M6


 

[Standaman]

The player has to take responsibility for his actions and he is own worse enemy currently he is wrecking a promising career before it has barely begun. 

Could the club managed the situation better? Perhaps but the only alternative to where we are now is selling him. It seems we had 3 chances to sell him.

Spurs in 2015 which by all accounts was a poor deal although with the advantage of hindsight even that is looking increasingly attractive.

Newcastle January understandable reluctance on the part of the club to sell to a potential relegation rival before we were safe and the issue of finding a replacement. Equally the player was reluctant to join the sinking ship

Stoke this summer. Replacement again an issue and the player wasn't particularly interested in the move.

All of the above are perfectly reasonable decisions however what we seem to have over looked throughout is that Saido has never been a natural fit in a Pulis team. Regardless of  the player's state of mind fitness or any of the myriad of other issues Pulis would hardly play Saido as a Centre Forward ahead of Rondon or even Lambeth and Anichebe.

For me the replacement issue has been greatly over stated aside from the Spurs bid we weren't replacing a 15 goal a season striker because we weren't playing him. Now Saido is no longer a 15 goal season striker and if we had any chance of unloading him in the summer regardless of how he looked pre season we should have taken it and took our chances with finding a replacement.

What next? I don't think it will be a good outcome for either player or club. As things currently stand I doubt he will find a home at a Premier League club next year. Even on a free there is an odor of bad egg that is starting to cling to Saido which might put off all but the least established Premier League teams, a Championship team will obviously take a punt on him as will a club from the continent. None of which is great news for the club which is now watching the tribunal fee diminishing almost on a weekly basis. 

It is all a bit of a mess and saddening that the player has wasted his talent and the club failed to extract themselves from the situation before it came to this.

[tuamigos]

I can't believe we are where we are now with this pillock:

217 pages?? 

[Fritzl Palace]

Every mention of his name remains a dagger to the heart.

£20m plus. How did we turn that down  I still can't believe it months later. Imbeciles.

[botters]

We are not going to get anything for him now. Who would buy him? He has totally wasted his career and will end up early on the scrapheap whoever told him to go about how he has conducted himself, agent or whatever needs sacking. Berahino has breached his contract as he is not in a fit condition to play premier league football so he should be sacked as well.

[baggie82]

The press release from the club re Berahino on a weight loss program is PR against the player. It's a convenient excuse to keep him out of the squad. Pulis does not want him and would have sold him but for Peace blocking the move for the past two years. Rondon is his main striker, and that's that. It was well reported he busted a gut over pre season to get himself sharp and in shape and he's hardly kicked a ball in anger. Fact is he hasn't played upfront regularly under Pulis since Rondon was signed last summer.

On a similar footing Morisson is now been thrown under a bus.

[botters]

The press release from the club re Berahino on a weight loss program is PR against the player. It's a convenient excuse to keep him out of the squad. Pulis does not want him and would have sold him but for Peace blocking the move for the past two years. Rondon is his main striker, and that's that. It was well reported he busted a gut over pre season to get himself sharp and in shape and he's hardly kicked a ball in anger. Fact is he hasn't played upfront regularly under Pulis since Rondon was signed last summer.

On a similar footing Morisson is now been thrown under a bus.

So how was it when Berahino looked grossly overweight previously. He is a disgrace to be called a professional footballer.

[baggiejohn]

The press release from the club re Berahino on a weight loss program is PR against the player. It's a convenient excuse to keep him out of the squad. Pulis does not want him and would have sold him but for Peace blocking the move for the past two years. Rondon is his main striker, and that's that. It was well reported he busted a gut over pre season to get himself sharp and in shape and he's hardly kicked a ball in anger. Fact is he hasn't played upfront regularly under Pulis since Rondon was signed last summer.

On a similar footing Morisson is now been thrown under a bus.

Agreed, no player gets that much attention from any head coach. There's something seriously amis at the football club.

[baggie82]

A lot of niave responses on here. You buying the TP spin hook line and sinker. Berahino came back this summer firing on all cylinders, as Darren Fletcher acknowledged. He has been applying himself in training and worked hard over pre-season to get into very good shape. Fact is TP doesn't want to pick him and the weight loss program is a convenient excuse to divert attention away from that. How often does the club / manager tell the press about players training regimes? This is a transparent exercise to cover his own back. He's canny with the media.

[caravanc58]

A lot of niave responses on here. You buying the TP spin hook line and sinker. Berahino came back this summer firing on all cylinders, as Darren Fletcher acknowledged. He has been applying himself in training and worked hard over pre-season to get into very good shape. Fact is TP doesn't want to pick him and the weight loss program is a convenient excuse to divert attention away from that. How often does the club / manager tell the press about players training regimes? This is a transparent exercise to cover his own back. He's canny with the media.

are you saying he's not overweight?

[adamw1109]

Reports are claimed that Saido has a very slow metabolism and not getting game time is a result in putting weight on..... and people will then say 'well he should train more', but then there is a thing called 'over training, tiredness, fatigued'.

The facts are, he's overweight due to whatever the reason may be, pulis has obviously got Saidos back and it's already been put out there that the club are trying to keep Saido on board under new owners.

The only people making BS excuses for what's going on are the people on here because they don't want to believe that Pulis wants him at the club and they are doing ther all to help him.

Wake up and smell the coffee, not everyone can score in the premier league... he's proved he can. Not everyone of our players have been valued at such a crazy price at a young age.... he has been.

He may be VERY far from being first name on the team sheet but like it or not he has potential... and it looks like Pulis and the rest of the club will do anything to either keep him here or sell him on for a big fee (which we have NO proof that we have received such suitable offer).