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CH and the club are not going to play a childish tit-for-tat game of comments with Locadia. When Mourinho goes down that particular road, it harms his club. At the end of the day the Albion are protecting any future resale value as best they can and Locadia might yet prove useful to CH.

Great post, I feel the same. If Locadia had shown himself ready in training, he would've replaced Muzza on 70 minutes in a stack of a games. With no need to change (the much slagged off) 4-5-1. I don't think we can accuse CH of being a poor manager or in carrying blinkered vendettas towards...

Locadia and Ulloa seemingly gave a boost to a stretched squad and Murray to up their game. Intentional or not, it worked and we stayed up.

But he could be a player who cut it in the Netherlands, but won’t in the PL. There are no certainties in buying players from lesser leagues. The Albion operate in a world of trying to uncover ‘value’, rather than the Leicester, West Ham and Everton approach of paying fortunes in fees and wages...

Was it £14m? Still huge I know, but there’s not been a PL club yet who got lucky with every expensive signing.

As a carefree kid at the Goldstone I loved all the Albion players, they’re all heroes. Almost a shock later on when you discover cynics, miseries and the jealous have it in for players of their own club. The posters on here even just a year ago who personally despised Muzza (all gone quiet...

We’re singing from the same hymn sheet on all this I think. This is my take on Barnes’s time at the Albion - the vast majority of fans attending games (both League One and Championship) and on NSC rated the player highly. Seeing a very young striker arrive from Plymouth for a bargain fee, and...

A difference is that Barnes and Butters kept their heads down, and produced the goods on the pitch. Locadia’s has shown no sign of excelling at anything, yet has mouthed off to the media after just a few months.

He said “beautiful”, not a rusty heap of a dive.

I agree and diagreed with those at the time who said the team/tactics should be built around CMS’s one way of playing.

It’s a bit like the CMS situation. It was only ever going to work, even then only possibly, if the team formation was built around his strengths.

"... there was interest from beautiful clubs". An impatient person, as by the summer he'd only been with us from January to May in playing terms and he'd arrived unfit. With the cameo from Andone showing a player with more technique, ability to find the ball, mobility and pace, I think...