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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Mikey Johnston joins on loan (Official!)
« on: February 21, 2024, 08:30:16 AM »
Sign him permanently! Proper footballer in the true Albion tradition!
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As somebody who knows nothing about takeovers just wanted to say cheers to everyone who has simplified it for eejits like me, overseas baggies and Standaman especially have made it abit more understandable!
Interesting to see how it plays out. If it's the Shilen Patel route then it would be the Drs Kiran & Pallavi Patel Family Office. Wealthy family based in Tampa, made money through healthcare in the US. Investing their wealth now into other businesses e.g. F&B, hotels and other businesses. Nice to see he has a strong emphasis on philanthropy (hopefully an actual value rather than for tax benefits or PR). Glad to see it's a family office rather than a PE group or some others, albeit the concern would be on money available to invest. All in all, I'm sure there could be a lot worse and at least these guys have actually built multiple businesses and have money, unlike a certain Mr Lai.
I don’t even have much hope of getting someone who will seriously invests. If someone invests and they get us to the prem then great. However once our paper value increases, who buys us at £150m knowing how precarious our position is at the top table and the potential damage of dropping out.
Whilst individual games have always been there own spectacle, it feels more and more like each game on its on merit is the be all and end all. That’s ok to an extent but it’s also quite sad really.
When I was hitting my height of love for the game / the Albion and going home and away every week, my dad fell out of love with it and started going to live rugby and cricket more. He was about 50 at the time and now he’s in his 60s his interest is basically checking our results post match and watching the odd tv game but that’s it.
I could never really understand how that had happened but now I’m 36 myself, whilst I don’t think it will happen to me to the same extent (and I know I’ll always support the club) I do wonder what my support will look like in 15 years due to apathy / disillusionment with the landscape and reality of modern football.
Since i've been going up, weve had Sneekes, Maresca, Koumas, Gera, Teixeira, Morrison, Dorrans, Thomas, Brunt, Greening, Odemwingie, Tchoyi, Amalfitano, Sessegnon, Chadli, Pereira and Grosicki, all varying degrees of good, but all of whom in moments and flashes gave you confidence they might create you chances or break lines and get you off your seats.
The last few games I've sat through over a few seasons now, I just don't get the sense from anybody that they are going to make something happen. There is nothing to get excited about. Nobody on the bench who might change a game. There aren't any moments in the game where you feel a wide player had the beating of a full back. It was a feature of every game I went to that there would be moments in a game where everyone stood up in the stands as the players approached the goal, in anticipation that something was about to happen. It didn't happen once yesterday.
Albion games stopped being fun a long time ago. It's a tough sell for me to motivate myself to go when we don't even have 1 or 2 players who can get me excited about even fleeting moments in the game.
Commentators just said game is screaming out for Sarmiento and Grady types and they are right.
That is a horrific line up, it's relegation battling hoping to steal a point kind of stuff. Lots of strange decisions there, not least keeping kipre in the side.
Until we hear otherwise I would assume Carlos did not know about Gourlay's imminent departure. With regard to Leeds if they do come calling then I would assume Corberan would go. There is a lot of things up in the air at Leeds and new ownership is not out of the question and some of the people that Corberan worked with while Bielsa was there in particular Sporting Director Victor Orta are no longer at the club. I would say it is far from certain that Leeds will be interested in Corberan