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West Bromwich Albion’s objectives could change as Kipre and Yokuslu near exit
National World - LocalTV
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09/07/2024
A look at key players possibly leaving the club.
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West Bromwich Albion have mentioned how important Carlos Corberán is to keep at the side, but
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they do have some key players who are looking likelier to leave. It's interesting, we've
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discussed their expectations, how they want to make another play-off push. Could these
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key player exits sort of impact that, do you think, in this next season?
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I think potentially the expectations will have to lower if key players do go. Cedric
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Kipray, he's not gone on to the pre-season training programme because it looks like he's
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going to depart the club. His contract's already expired, there were talks over a new deal,
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but considering he's not part of the set-up at the moment, it doesn't even look like he's
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considering the possibility of staying, which is a great shame. He was one of the best players
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at the club last season. He went on loan to Cardiff City and then came back to West Brom.
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No, I don't think anyone expects him to be the star that he was, but just how important
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he was to Carlos Corbijn's side reaching the top six. He was instrumental, so losing
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him is going to be a massive loss and replacing him as well will be very difficult. But then
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Ayko Yakuzlu as well, a Turkish international, looks like he could be going back to his home
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country. Trabzonspor and Beşiktaş are both fighting for him. Beşiktaş being a massive
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name in Turkish football and Trabzonspor being his former club, both are very good options.
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Is he really going to want to stay at West Brom at the moment when they're looking like
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they're not going to be in a title fight, a promotion fight? Probably play-offs is the
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expectation. Can they even get that with how competitive it's going to be? If he goes as
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well, one year left on his contract, the only real chance West Brom are going to get to
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recoup any of the fee. It's going to be difficult to keep hold of him. So losing two such vital
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players, can they really expect as much as they did last season? I'm not too sure.
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It's been an interesting time with the ownership situation at West Brom. It's started to look
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more positive, it's started to sound more positive with them saying they were going
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to back the manager and really aim for that promotion and get back to the Premier League.
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But it doesn't seem to have really kick-started so far this summer. What do you think is the
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situation going on between the ownership and the whole club really? Because time is ticking
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and that first day will be coming around sooner rather than later.
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Don't get me wrong, I think Shilam Patel is going to do a fantastic job. He already is.
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Writing off the debts that West Brom had, they were really mounting up all the interest.
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Brilliant that he's done that and he's fully committed. Carlos Corbijn and him have a great
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relationship as well. £1 million investment into the training facilities recently. I think
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West Brom are in for a bright future. It's just these immediate 12 months to follow.
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They're not going to have the spending ability just because of financial fair play and the
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regulations there. They can't go and spend millions like they might want to. They've
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got to try and balance those books. The departures that are going on, Kyprae for free, Yakuzlu
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will be a cut price one because of the fact it's got 12 months left. It's not like they're
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selling someone for £20 million and they can go and spend that on the whole squad to
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invest. They've not got the facilities at the moment. So that's why they're going to
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struggle. But if you look 12, 24 months down the line, then they should be able to invest
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a bit more and the horizons will be a bit brighter for West Brom.
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