Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox discuss West Brom's summer transfer business.
With eyes on potential incomings, Lewis and Jonny look at possible outgoings.
They discuss what could happen at The Hawthorns, giving a view on young star Tom Fellows and captain Jed Wallace.
With eyes on potential incomings, Lewis and Jonny look at possible outgoings.
They discuss what could happen at The Hawthorns, giving a view on young star Tom Fellows and captain Jed Wallace.
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00:00It's going to be made of the potential incomings this summer,
00:02but there's no doubt going to be outgoings.
00:04You know, there was last summer.
00:06Players went for a fee.
00:08There's a lot of players who are out of contract next summer
00:10who would go for free.
00:12There's players who are out of sorts, you know, out of favour,
00:14not being used, well, haven't been used the whole time
00:16they've been at Albion.
00:18Just give us a flavour of a couple of Albion players
00:21you think might not be around by the end of the summer.
00:25Yeah, I mean, a previous video touched on a couple.
00:28We just, I think, worth expanding on Jed Wallace,
00:33the club captain who, yeah, it's a pretty obvious one, isn't it?
00:37It's been tough for him for 18 months now.
00:38He hasn't had the starts.
00:40He's a, you know, he's a long-serving,
00:43well-respected member of the squad, a big earner as well
00:47because of the contract he came in on from Millwall three years ago.
00:51I just think that's one where, you know,
00:53it suits potentially all parties if something's done.
00:56And, you know, Jed, I'm sure at his age, you know,
00:59he's a cracking guy, proper captain, leader,
01:01will want to play regular football, I'm sure.
01:03Now, obviously, it will take suitable interest
01:06and suitable figures and approach and finances
01:09for that to go through.
01:11So, there's one.
01:12Again, Johnny, I know you touched on a piece.
01:14You go, you look at fringe players like a Frobata,
01:17Gianluca Frobata, the left-back,
01:19or a Devante Cole in forward areas, still under contract.
01:22You know, these are lads that just did not have
01:24a slightest look in last season, did they,
01:27in their debut campaigns?
01:28So, you know, there will be low earners.
01:31They won't, you know, they won't be costing the club too much.
01:35However, you just feel if Alvin can move them on,
01:39you can get better in.
01:40You don't want, it's all well and good saying they're low earners,
01:43but you don't want squad players who aren't going to come on
01:44and affect things.
01:45Or in, you know, Frobata's case,
01:46barely make the bench or Cole's case.
01:48So, you know, if you are spending it on,
01:50you still try and do it successfully on players
01:52that can impact the pitch, in my opinion, anyway.
01:55So, that's three.
01:56Again, I know in a previous video,
01:58I touched on Tom Fellows.
02:00He's at the other end of the scale.
02:01So, a Cole on Frobata, isn't he?
02:02He's, you know, the club's great asset, really,
02:04as an academy graduate.
02:07You could say a golden egg, really, in terms of PSR,
02:10in terms of pure profit for money that would potentially
02:13eventually come in for Fellows.
02:15We know there's been interest in him before,
02:17Everton, Southampton.
02:18I'd be surprised if real interest didn't come in for Fellows
02:21after the season he's had.
02:22You know, the league-leading assists,
02:26England under-21 reckoning, isn't he?
02:29One of, if not the better wingers in this division.
02:33And he will be the one that would take serious replacing,
02:35isn't he?
02:36You know, that's the first team he would really,
02:38you know, Albion would suffer without,
02:40but would have, would be well-priced to use the money
02:44to replace him, you would feel.
02:47In terms of impressive players currently at the club
02:50who've perhaps done enough to be spotted,
02:52you look at Heggen, don't you?
02:54Torbjorn Heggen, the double award-winning player of the year.
02:59He, to me, looks like the kind of player
03:01that clubs above or, you know,
03:04clubs that are better off at the moment
03:06could well be interested in.
03:07You know, it wouldn't cost them.
03:09I was going to say it wouldn't cost them much
03:11to get Heggen out of Albion.
03:12Now, I don't mean Albion would consider selling him
03:14for a low fee, but I mean relative to potential clubs above,
03:19it would be a sort of low-cost one.
03:21And Heggen looks like he's got another gear to me to go.
03:24I hope I'm wrong in that case, but look, let's see.
03:29So there's sort of a handful there.
03:30A couple who are, I think, Albion would be very happy to,
03:33you know, your squad players who haven't been affecting things
03:35to move on.
03:36A couple of the real star assets, really,
03:38who I suppose Albion would ideally want at the club,
03:40but look, the business is the business, isn't it?
03:43And, you know, that's how that goes.
03:46You never quite know, do you?
03:50There are players, again, in the previous video,
03:52I mentioned DK and Madger.
03:54You mentioned players in the last year of the contracts.
03:56They're two.
03:57Alex Mowat's another.
03:58You know, he's either 30 or approaching 30.
04:01Quite interesting, you know, to me,
04:04whether the likes of these and Madger, you know,
04:07certainly the older ones when you look at a Mowat
04:10or a Furlong or a Bartley, you know,
04:12whether interest comes through and it's solid enough
04:14and I suppose a value, enough value,
04:17enough for the club to consider.
04:19I mentioned another video we did about the head coach
04:22and, you know, this is a fresh start for the club,
04:27really, this summer.
04:28You know, Bill calls, yes, it's their second appointment,
04:30but we know what happened with the first.
04:32The first fell away from the way they wanted to go.
04:35It feels like this is a start for them.
04:37That doesn't mean they can't be judged on
04:39the Tony Mulberry move, by the way.
04:41They are judged on it and it failed.
04:43But this is, so this is a banker for them.
04:46This is one that, you know,
04:47the hierarchy would want to work, need to work.
04:49So I'm pretty sure whoever comes in,
04:51you know, be it Ryan Mason or whoever,
04:53the owners will give the tools to that person,
04:56I think, to succeed.
04:57And if that means listening to offers,
04:59moving players on that, you know,
05:01whoever the new head coach doesn't quite fancy,
05:03then I, you know,
05:04I would not be surprised at all to see that happen.
05:05I, you know,
05:07I don't know.
05:08I don't know.
05:09I don't know.
05:10I don't know.
05:11You know,
05:11you're looking at them.