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Last Match Forum - 12/02 Blackburn Rovers (H) / Re: In Game Chat
« on: February 12, 2025, 09:00:06 PM »
Consistency has been a real problem for us this season but its not a terrible half really. Still level and hopefully we can make adjustments to win the game, our first half performances have generally been wanting for a while, Portsmouth aside.

Still if we are to make the play offs, we're really getting to the stage we need to string wins together. A win here would be huge.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Adam Armstrong
« on: February 03, 2025, 11:46:20 PM »
Suspect this one will go down with dood claiming Reggie Cannon had signed, And Kyle  Bartley been released.

The guy clearly gets some kind of connection to the medical department given he’s accurate about injuries but he loves the attention he gets and massively overplays how in the know he is. He’s predicted absolutely zero of the window or manager hunt.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tammer Bany Joins Albion
« on: February 03, 2025, 09:35:57 PM »
Given it's only a 3.5 year deal i'd be pretty surprised if this was as expensive as originally mooted, i'd expect us to tie down a significant investment for longer than that. Isaac Price by way of comparison was a 4.5 year deal.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer Joins Ipswich Town 3/2/25
« on: February 03, 2025, 09:30:15 PM »
we don't need money, we need to be within PSR, that is the biggest issue we have.

If that's the case shouldn't why are we commiting to about 5m of spending this window? I'd prefer we do our business in the summer rather than selling off first teamers during the play off push....

It seems to be rather uniquely us who are having to sell off players on the cheap for PSR, other clubs with these constraints still seem able to get good deals. Hull were very much under the cosh last season and got 20m for Jacob Greaves, difficult to imagine we would have managed even half that.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer Joins Ipswich Town 3/2/25
« on: February 03, 2025, 09:26:52 PM »
Fine with him moving if its a great deal for us but i'm worried we don't seem to have learned from our lessons with undervaluing players. 2m rising to 4m is a horrific deal for a deadline day move. It seems we're perpetually 10 years behind in our valuation of players and negotiating of sales.

It can't really be that we're desperate for money either given we appear to be spending this money immediately.

When he was out injured two seasons ago it derailed our season and we missed the play offs because of it. We can only hope Wildsmith/Griffiths are ready for the step up - but this is a big, seemingly unnecessary risk we are taking. Would we really have not been able to get 2m for Palmer in the summer if we were deadset on selling him?

At least the academy does seem to have a pretty good through line of keepers with Griffiths next, and Cisse also an England youth international.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tom Fellows
« on: February 03, 2025, 07:27:51 PM »
Palace signed Romain Esse a couple of weeks ago from Millwall who also predominantly plays on the right. I'd be pretty surprised if they were to come in for another young championship winger in the same position.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tammer Bany Joins Albion
« on: February 03, 2025, 05:08:43 PM »
 Certainly it should be said that Heggem came from a similarly low profile and has turned into a shrewd purchase, so it is perhaps a case that we've identified the Nordics as a place we can get good value on unknown players.

Brentford did something similar and have done pretty well from it, and likewise Brighton have done a decent amount of business from Danish clubs.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Under 23's / Academy Thread
« on: February 03, 2025, 04:58:42 PM »
Seems very little linking anyone away from the club. It'll be very poor if Whitwell isn't at least getting a loan somewhere. At 19 he should really be getting professional experience, ideally readying him to contribute for next season.


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tammer Bany Joins Albion
« on: February 03, 2025, 04:48:13 PM »
Can't really work this one one out. The reported fee is really a very large amount of money for us. His career so far has so little going for it. He's barely played professionally, and at 21 he's not exactly that young relatively speaking. He doesn't even have any underage  caps for Denmark so it doesn't seem like he's been a big prospect there.

Hopefully it will be a masterstroke but he really needs to be able to come in and be contributing immediately to the first team to justify this kind of spending.



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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer
« on: February 03, 2025, 03:50:48 PM »
The idea that Ipswich would pay 2m for Palmer on January deadline day, when they paid 10m for Muric in the summer who wasn't even Burnley's first choice keeper for the majority of last season is so plainly farcical I cannot believe we would actually be stupid enough to agree to a deal. January is notoriously a sellers market.

I can hardly buy we are so desperate for money we would take anything either, given we have bought Price and seemingly have the Danish player on the way taking us up to 5m of spending.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer
« on: February 03, 2025, 02:15:53 PM »
Having initially said he had read £2m and £5m, Chris hall is now saying it’s £2m. Having formerly worked at the club you’d think he’s got some contact there.

I thought £5m was good, £2m isn’t. Many here thought £5m was poor  :-X

2m would be an appalling deal. There is a legitimate chance our season will be over by selling Palmer, so to do it for so little would be a very Lai-era-esque deal. A couple of years ago Palmer getting injured was probably the difference between us missing out on the play offs, given how Button/Griffiths did in his absence.

Putting a lot of faith in our keepers who've neve done it above League One. A legitimate chance we'll have to spend close if not more than what we'd get to replace him in the summer.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer
« on: February 03, 2025, 12:29:08 PM »
I would also think it’s more likely Wildsmith will step up as replacement rather than Griffiths

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Alex Palmer
« on: February 03, 2025, 12:27:22 PM »
5m seems an extremely low offer for a January deadline day move. Ipwsich are pretty desperate for a keeper and they’re not going to find one cheaper elsewhere. Palmer is also comparatively young for a goalkeeper.

Given the disruption to our season this will cause, a good chance this will take us out the play offs contention given the risk of our replacements, you’d think it would have to be in the territory of cannot refuse. Looking at the prices of other premier league goalkeepers this is very much below market value.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Will Lankshear signs on loan
« on: January 31, 2025, 09:52:36 PM »
He's about as promising a forward as we're going to turn up at this stage of the window. Certainly one of the higher rated strikers out the academy system right now. Whether he's championship ready who's to say but he's at least got on the pitch a few times for Spurs this season and hopefully he can contribute a few goals for us.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Tom Fellows
« on: January 31, 2025, 04:53:56 PM »
Seems to me that once we were a club ‘buying’ the talent building and developing the club with top players.
Now it seems we are a ‘supply’ source to BIG clubs like Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth and the like.
We have become minnows and think like it - so sad.

It's just the reality of being below those sides, no mentality is going to change it. I'm sure the likes of Leeds and Sunderland don't like it much either but that's the way of the world.

We have to be much better at selling players to generate funds to be able to improve the squad and make a go of things. That's actually something Brentford could have taught us well. They consistently had their best players taken from them in the championship and used it to invest in a better squad which eventually made the premier league and was able to stay up easily.

I'd hope we at least keep Fellows for the rest of the season but if he does well and attacts prices, then the end of the season the smart choice would be to sell to enable to the investment it'd allow.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Daryl Dike
« on: January 31, 2025, 01:43:39 PM »
Almost certainly he'll have to go through the under 21 side for a few games before we even consider him a bench option. The fact he's not been on the bench yet for the under 21's suggests he's not particularly close to making it to the first team anytime soon. They have a game today against Fleetwood and I guess we'd have heard if he were in the squad.

Realistically I'd be surprised if he makes an appearance earlier than March, and even that would assume no set backs. 


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Albion Matchday Forum / Re: In Game Chat
« on: January 25, 2025, 03:18:55 PM »
I refuse to believe Wallace is actually a better striker than Cole or Grant. Even in his actual position I don’t think Wallace would be better than league one level these days, yet alone as a center forward. He has almost no attributes to play there.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Grady Diangana
« on: January 23, 2025, 06:53:29 PM »
Romano:

?🚨 Parma and Celta Vigo are showing interest in Grady Diangana as potential free agent for next season.

Burnley have offered a contract to Grady but he’s turned down the proposal. 🟣?


Could do with a London champo club making an offer for him instead

Seems more likely to be agent lead trying to drum up interest for his client. We're a middling championship club and he's not even a regular starter here. The fact is he's largely living off his first season here where even then he only started half the games and he wasn't as good after injury.

He'll be 27 by the time his contract is up so he's long past being a prospect. Still Oliver Burke continues to play at decent levels so there's hope for everyone.


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Josh Griffiths
« on: January 20, 2025, 03:10:33 PM »
Had a quick look at a Bristol Rovers forum to see what they are saying about him. Pretty much glowing reviews all round.

Just one comment from their latest match: "Griffiths 9.5. Always been a good shot stopper today he commanded his box too. Going to the top!"

I've seen a lot of people suggesting we cash in on him. If he's as good as they think he is we should be looking for a big fee if we go down that route.

I struggle to imagine we would get a particularly large for for him. He's young but he's not so young to be a wonderkid. Best case scenario would probably be selling him to a low-end championship side or a top league one side for a lower fee with a hefty sell on clause attached.

I don't think premier league clubs are struggling for young keepers looking around (indeed many of them already have keepers higher rated than Griffiths on their books) and at any rate going somewhere to be reserve at this choice of his career wouldn't seem a very good move for him.

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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL PREMIER LEAGUE THREAD
« on: January 20, 2025, 02:25:14 PM »
If Cooper is on gardening leave couldn't they technically just get him back as manager if they wanted too if they dismiss RvN? Not really sure how it works

Then again for both parties it would be proper embarrassing I suppose.

I imagine Cooper would probably much rather keep getting paid to sit on the beach rather than go back to a club who sacked him for no reason in the first place and who's fans never liked him for being at Forest, all to get a almost certain relegation on his CV.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Reyes Cleary
« on: January 16, 2025, 01:59:09 PM »
It's unlikely he'll make it here but its not exactly uncommon for players to struggle on their first loan either. It's so different in physicality in league two from anything he'll have been used to. Walsall also had a very, very good strike force for that level so it wasn't really a good loan choice by the club - he was always going to be up against it for minutes with no first team background.

By way of comparison Tom Fellows spent a season being a very unremarkable squad rotation player for one of the very worst teams in League 2, but then was one of our better players the following season.


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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 16, 2025, 12:07:46 PM »
And he wasn't solely responsible for that either. Let's not forget that much talked about chap who went to the FA and the folliculary challenged one who could have negotiated his way through a closed vice  ;) .

It was Simon Hunt, not Dan Ashworth who was in place that summer

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 15, 2025, 05:17:47 PM »
Is there anything reliable actually even linking Mowbray to the job? The “it’s” are clearly completely out the loop with regards to the manager hunt so then throwing his name out among a hundred others isn’t very interesting

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 15, 2025, 03:04:21 PM »
Even without his past here Mowbray is the best remaining option. The job he did at Sundetland is basically exactly what we need someone to do with us.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Next Head Coach Thread
« on: January 15, 2025, 01:10:51 PM »
My view is that we had a relatively unique set of circumstances befall us. Most Clubs know in advance that they are going to ditch their Manager and start looking for replacements with focus and have set things up prior to departure.
 Our ex- Gaffer left for probably the only job that could possibly have taken him away. his home town Club and a massive Club at that, in comparison.
My view is that Bikul were convinced that  Corberan had both bought into the long -term project and perhaps understandably  led to some complacency in having a plan B.
The Wicky debacle however seems extremely suspicious with hindsight and no transparency forthcoming. I don't  buy the ' assistants can't come ' excuse. I think either  someone somewhere did not prepare properly whether us or more likely Wicky himself or Wicky got cold feet seeing the limitations of the task ahead. Either way I somehow feel we dodged a bullet.
We are a big enough Club to attract a high standard of Coach, but in our current state that Coach has to have incredible self-belief, something I believe CC had in spades. As it stands we have an outside chance of promotion, but those odds have gone a tad south with Majas' injury.
 I do not think that Bikul have spectacularly failed, but if they rush an appointment now it will be the wrong move. They have been given some breathing room in a sense, with the option of TM as a sound plan B. A Club statement on the Wicky fiasco would help though.

I looked at other championship teams to have lost a manager in the last 10 seasons and the mean time of replacement was 10 days, with the successful ones usually inside a week. We have taken comfortably longer than any of them at this point so I don't think we should be excused. Ultimately we have absolutely zero reason to have not been doing the background work when Corberan had been touted for just about every job going this season.

The actual truth behind Wicky we probably will never know properly, but even if it wasn't the clubs fault, its really poor we did not have a second choice ready to go straight away. How exhaustive can we have been if its back to the drawing board? I don't accept that there's simply no one available when we've taken longer than every other club in the top 2 divisions.

Ultimately it will be the quality of a manager who comes in that will be historically judged but unless Brunt bales them out with some good results over the next week/s, if we miss out on the play offs by a few points, or indeed if we do not end up with a good manager after all this faffing (see the Pepe Mel fiasco) it will look terrible for the new owners.

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