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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Shane Long
« on: January 16, 2014, 02:25:05 PM »I'm glad he's gone and I wish him well.
Personally I didn't think we should have bought him in the first place, I said at the time that having one good season in the Championship doesn't make someone a Premier league goal scorer.
If you look at his career he only once scored more than 9 league goals and that was the season before we bought him when he got 23 for Reading which with hindsight is looking more and more like a freak occasion.
For me he didn't improve as a player in his time with us 8 league goals in each season and only really being consistent for 4 months per season.
The time was right for him to move on.
I was going to write something similar. So I won't bother.
Wonderfully summed up, for me.