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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 04/07 Leyton Orient (N - Portimao)
« on: July 04, 2022, 03:32:58 PM »
Fairly good view from a bank outside the ground. Grounds man told me where to go. Beach, beers, football. Wife driving home. Happy man

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 04/07 Leyton Orient (N - Portimao)
« on: July 04, 2022, 02:59:58 PM »
 :D :D :D :D
Yes I know Adrian well. I’ll get your number off him and we must meet for a beer 🍺

I’ve just pulled in to the ground in Lagos to see if there is a vantage point or it’sa wasted trip

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 04/07 Leyton Orient (N - Portimao)
« on: July 04, 2022, 12:30:07 PM »
Hi LB
I’m in Moncarapacho, Eastern Algarve. Whereabouts are you?

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 04/07 Leyton Orient (N - Portimao)
« on: July 03, 2022, 09:50:25 PM »
Yes it’s being closed doors but I think it’s at Lagos and there is an area you can see quite well. Hoping so anyway

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: 04/07 Leyton Orient (N - Portimao)
« on: July 03, 2022, 02:44:07 PM »
I think I might go and take a look. Only about an hour from mine.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Jayson Molumby
« on: August 27, 2021, 02:57:57 PM »
The new Mulumbu sounds ideal to me. He looks strong, combative, hardworking and has an eye for a pass. Good business at his age especially !!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Kenneth Zohore
« on: August 26, 2021, 02:01:40 PM »
Makes me angry seeing him wearing the no.9 shirt.

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Pre Match Chat
« on: August 14, 2021, 02:47:11 PM »
Any tv links? Kodi etc

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General Football & Sports / Re: Matheus Pereira
« on: July 28, 2021, 08:15:41 AM »
Interesting as it came from Arabic Twitter account. Could be something in this I guess but I would have hoped for a heftier price tag. Maybe there is a decent sell on clause??

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Alex Mowatt
« on: June 30, 2021, 09:13:18 AM »
John Percy tweets that he is booked in for a medical later this week.
This is good business on a free.
Makes perfect sense having been Ismail’s captain

https://www.westbromnews.co.uk/2021/06/29/barnsley-captain-alex-mowatt-set-for-west-brom-medical/

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General Football & Sports / Re: Valérien Ismaël - Head Coach
« on: June 25, 2021, 08:05:44 AM »
He certainly talks the talk and I like what he says. I only hope he is given sufficient time and resources. I’m actually quite excited to see what he brings to the team !

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: October 08, 2020, 01:07:26 PM »
Just had a quick search.  I found 16 post on the forum mentioning Balogun.  12 were by you, 1 in reply to you and 3 by 'baggies'.  Are you on commission?

(PS - sorry to stalk you, but I just kept seeing his name and was sure it was the same poster)
Terribly cynical of you to stalk me.
I just think that he is a cracking player and fits the profile so f player the club had been talking about. Grant is by far the safer option.
And for the record I was only on a very small %  :-X

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: October 07, 2020, 08:56:27 AM »
What I find quite alarming is that if we fail to sign Grant and taking into consideration the likelihood that our visit to the premier league is going to be short lived, the starting point of our championship team next summer will somehow be even weaker than the one that came up last season!

If Gallagher, Krov and Deeney/Gray return to their parent clubs after their loans and when a 37 year old Ivanovic's contract is up, the grand sum of our squad additions will be Cedric Kipre. Players like Austin and Grosicki will be out of contract, while the likes of Gibbs, HRK, Bartley, Hegazi, Livermore and Sawyers will all be either in their 30's or in Sawyers case, about to turn 30.

To have such limited squad evolution after getting into the premier league would be a real failure on the club's part. The whole point of any yo-yoing between divisions is that when you go down, you do so in a stronger positon to when you came up. Apart from the financials, our team will be weaker than the one that were playing games last season.

If we can't sign Grant, we must sign a different young striker or outfield player. We can't afford not to.

Well Arsenal’s young striker Balogun is available for sale. He’s a risk as he doesn’t have first team experience but he won’t sign a new contract but he is very highly rated.
Sheff utd and Brentford put in low bids that were rejected circa 3m.
Arsenal apparently want 8m só surely a deal to be done. Maybe King/Deeney along with Balogun.

https://www.google.pt/amp/s/www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/folarin-balogun-sheffield-united-profile-18946905.amp

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: Team
« on: October 03, 2020, 11:35:34 AM »
Johnstone

O’Shea Ivanovic Ajayi Townsend

Pereira Livermore Krov Gallagher Diangana

Robinson


I would be asking Livermore to play deep allowing Krov and Gallagher to do their stuff.

We certainly have options in midfield now and once we sign a striker there will be a real battle for places


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: September 30, 2020, 07:22:48 AM »
The extension to window is to 16th October it is purely between EFL and PL clubs. PL clubs can't trade  between each other.

The Grant deal has to be wrapped up before then otherwise we lose the leverage of an alternative and the price becomes the price unless we are able to turn to an EFL alternative. There are some but they are in many instances bad and in some cases bad and expensive.

I absolutely do not trust Nixon who is more than capable of publishing something completely fabricated so a little bit of embellishment to spice up a tale e.g. a dramatic final offer from us when the deal might just as likely be done is no small stretch.

Percy who is on the other hand generally reliable and not prone to making stuff up says we are interested in Slimani I tend to take that seriously. I am still not keen and as an alternative to Grant makes no kind of sense.

A Slimani or Deeney along with someone like Balogun would make sense

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Filip Krovinovic (back at Benfica)
« on: September 28, 2020, 11:49:23 AM »
Krov imo, is the player that Bilic was referring to when talking about players better suited to the Prem. Could fit in very well with CG’ s energy around him.
I’m glad he’s coming back and I hope he’s closely followed by two strikers (Grant & Balogun for me)

In a ideal world a LB(we looked weak there on Saturday)

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Filip Krovinovic (back at Benfica)
« on: September 24, 2020, 08:31:50 AM »
Here in Portugal it’s being reported as a done deal. One year loan with no option to buy. We wanted to pay €6m and they wanted €10m.

I think it’s a great deal for us as Bilic really wants him and is likely the player he refers to being better suited to the Prem.
Agree that this frees up some cash to get the Grant deal over the line and hopefully another striker on loan.
Need to ship a few out

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Luke Dowling
« on: September 18, 2020, 04:13:07 PM »
I agree he’s done s decent job on the whole but I still think there is work to do. I don’t think that Krov is the essential piece of business that needs doing though.
If we don’t upgrade or strikers quite considerably we are going to really struggle.
I like Kanu for his effort but like Austin and Zohore they are not of the quality needed in the Premier League.
For a really successful window we would see two of the above depart with two incoming.
I really hope we can achieve that, then we will have had a really good window and Dowling will be well worthy of the praise

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General Football & Sports / Re: Conor Gallagher
« on: September 17, 2020, 08:08:02 PM »
Dynamic box to box midfielder who will add some bite and excitement to the midfield


Great signing!!!

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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: After Match Debate
« on: September 16, 2020, 08:10:23 PM »
Definitely better 2nd half.
Edwards has it all just needs consistency, great second half.
Kipre looks composed and powerful and not sure he missed anything in the air.
Field had a good steady game.
Button was spot on.

Overall not the best of performances but looked tidy in the second half.

Motm Edwards

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: September 12, 2020, 10:27:35 AM »
We should be looking at alternatives like Balogun from Arsenal if this deal is seriously stuttering. Available at around £8m and looks the real deal but of course is a risk having not played any first team games yet. No loan available as he won’t sign contract.
I’m sure we do have other irons in the fire anyway.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: September 02, 2020, 06:46:50 PM »
I would imagine we are trying for 12m plus add Ons to get around the asking price.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: August 28, 2020, 01:25:06 PM »
I’d be happy with Grant.

Looked tidy when Huddersfield were in the prem and scored goals last season in their struggling team.

If we can get him in and another similiar type of player, it gives our front lines some fluidity to move about in the games.

Judging by limited games per goal ratio he should be good for 10+ which what we need

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Karlan Grant
« on: August 26, 2020, 01:41:35 PM »
Grants a cracking player. Scored 19 goals in a awful Huddersfield side last season and when he joined them in the January they were in the premier league he scored 4 goals in 12 in the premier league. He is also in the final year of his contract if I've read correctly. I'd go in with 8 million but break it up into installments and add ons as we have with Eze.
I would be very happy if we could get these two and blow the budget. We would still be in need of CM CB and LB through loans. Possible. Robinson in Burke out and Kroc loan to buy. Zohore has to go as does Gibbs

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General Football & Sports / Re: Nathan Ferguson
« on: February 01, 2020, 08:47:50 AM »
Personally, I think that the club will want to demonstrate magnanimity on this.
I would imagine the club can ask for a copy of the medical report from Palace & then send NF for a second opinion from our own medical staff, or an independent assessor.
If, as alleged, Palace were prepared to pay up to £11 million for NF, he does have a value, & it would be in both the club's & the player's interests to maximise that.
How are we now supposed to maximize it?

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