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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Taylor Gardner-Hickman
« on: July 30, 2023, 04:50:46 PM »TGH needs to nail down position and soon, or move on for his own sake.
People keep talking about he could be a other Sam Field, as though we are letting Xavi go, in context Field is mid 20's and is playing in a very average championship side like QPR (and i really wanted Field to come good)
The two best prospects of late are O'Shea who has moved for £7m quid and possibly Palmer who is going for £3m, both have been regulars in the first team, if they are good enough they will get the chance.
Not many leave us and go to better things.
Fwiw Field may be in a poor team, but is acknowledged as being their best player, and was being linked with moves to the Premier League in January (Fulham / Palace). He was also the only QPR team from our game at the Hawthorns who would have improved our team on the day, despite the result.
Admittedly it's not a like for like comparison; Field is a holding player so is likely to improve as he gets older, while TGH is more box-to-box and will likely struggle later on in his career.
Ironically his reading of the game / positioning is the area of the game Corberan is supposedly unimpressed with; something which always impressed me about Field.