[Albion] So here's the plan...

SimpKingpin said:

...per the successful 'Ben White / Leeds business model':

Joking aside (or, half-joking, because I think this may be an intentional strategy) I'm going to be very interested in the Championship this year.
Lots of talented Albion players to keep an eye on.

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SimpKingpin said:

...per the successful 'Ben White / Leeds business model':

1. Pick teams in the top half of the Championship table.
2. Loan them our brightest prospects.
3. Help get them promoted.
4. Take our players*back and sell them to Arsenal for £50m a piece.

West Brom
Matt Clarke
Jason Molumby*

Stoke
Leo Ostigard
Abdallah Sima

Blackburn
Jan Paul van Hecke
Reda Khadra

*loan with option to buy

Joking aside (or, half-joking, because I think this may be an intentional strategy) I'm going to be very interested in the Championship this year.
Lots of talented Albion players to keep an eye on.

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Uh_huh_him said:

Not as much as we all will be next season*

I don't really think that. It was an open goal. I had to.

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Nobby Cybergoat said:

The Ben White/Leeds model did rely on the pleasant but gullible manager of a dysfunctional club run by billionaires trying to buy popularity in the most scattergun way I can remember, buying into ridiculous quantities of the "Marcelo Bielsa is a Yoda-like genius, everything he touches turns to gold" myth.

Be difficult to get £50m like that every summer

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Uh_huh_him said:

I don't really think that. It was an open goal. I had to.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

They have just bought Daniel James. I know that some (ok, bw2) will use this to trigger another cry of YOY haventweboughtastriker? But James is a crap crosser and wouldn't add to our squad. He won't add much to Leeds either, which is nice.

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SimpKingpin said:

...per the successful 'Ben White / Leeds business model':

1. Pick teams in the top half of the Championship table.
2. Loan them our brightest prospects.
3. Help get them promoted.
4. Take our players back and sell them to Arsenal for £50m a piece.

West Brom
Matt Clarke
Jason Molumby*

Stoke
Leo Ostigard
Abdallah Sima

Blackburn
Jan Paul van Hecke
Reda Khadra

*loan with option to buy

Joking aside (or, half-joking, because I think this may be an intentional strategy) I'm going to be very interested in the Championship this year.
Lots of talented Albion players to keep an eye on.

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GT49er said:

Hull
Ryan Longman.

The Official Loanee Tracker thread will be a fascinating place this season. Think it would be a good idea to make it a sticky - might stop people starting new threads every time one of ur loanees scores, or starts, or gets dropped, sent off, etc.

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SimpKingpin said:

Not a bad idea. It's fascinating this year. With the lads up in Scotland too, and Zeqiri in Germany.

So many players in good teams to keep me interested in a lot of football!

Although, I must admit I feel a bit disappointed that Karbownik's loan has an option to buy.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

They have just bought Daniel James. I know that some (ok, bw2) will use this to trigger another cry of YOY haventweboughtastriker? But James is a crap crosser and wouldn't add to our squad. He won't add much to Leeds either, which is nice.

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um bongo molongo said:

James was good enough at Swansea to earn a move to Man Utd. Do you really look at our XI last Saturday, which had all the pace of an arthritic tortoise, and still think he wouldn’t have added to the squad? I do think Leeds have paid a big price, but he’ll do well there I think.

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um bongo molongo said:

James was good enough at Swansea to earn a move to Man Utd. Do you really look at our XI last Saturday, which had all the pace of an arthritic tortoise, and still think he wouldn’t have added to the squad? I do think Leeds have paid a big price, but he’ll do well there I think.

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