00:00There's been a lot of speculation over Carlos Corbijn. Obviously the Leicester stuff has
00:11gone away now with the appointment of Steve Kubler. He has remained sort of loosely rumoured
00:17with Burnley, although they are looking at other candidates such as Frank Lampard and
00:21Ruud van Nistelrooy, surprisingly. My question to you is, would keeping Carlos Corbijn at
00:28Albion this summer be the best bit of summer business that Albion will do?
00:32It's a great question, actually. I don't think it's too wide of the mark. I think you're
00:39pretty much on the money with that. Don't get me wrong, as we know and we've spoke about,
00:43there's a lot to do in terms of recruitment this summer. There's a lot of positions to
00:46fill, a lot of things to work out, obviously plenty left at the back end of last season.
00:51More could leave in terms of sales, in terms of balancing the books. So there's a lot to
00:56do on the player recruitment front. No one is hiding or shirking away from that. As well
01:02as that, there's not a lot of wriggle room to do it with. You look at the PSR, the Profit
01:07and Sustainability regs of Financial Fair Play. On the playing front, there's as much
01:14as Carlos Corbijn has had to do in his time at the club. But as you rightly ask, keeping
01:20hold of the head coach is clearly, for me certainly, clearly trumps that. I'd imagine
01:26that most, if not all, Baggies listening to this would agree. Obviously, I think most
01:33of those of an Albion persuasion, most Baggies fans hold Carlos Corbijn in a very high esteem
01:38don't they for the work he's done. But even those who aren't as on board for one reason
01:44or another would have to concede that losing the figure again, the manager, head coach
01:51figure and having to start again with everything, with the principles, with the tactics, with
01:56the recruitment, with the relations, with the support, with the new ownership structure.
02:01Everything having to start again just feels like a step back doesn't it? I think the
02:06work that Corbijn has done in guiding Albion through these stormy times really, stormy
02:14waters under the uncertainty of the previous ownership, with the financial hamperment he's
02:22had, hands tied behind his back in terms of not being able to spend on fees and that kind
02:27of thing. I think he's done a remarkable job really for the best part of two years. One
02:32of the better jobs of an Albion manager in some time given the backdrop I think and
02:39losing that. I think Carlos Corbijn deserves to be in the conversation of these clubs for
02:45the job he's done. He does and it's testament to the job he's done. But losing it would
02:50undoubtedly feel like a step backwards, two steps backwards. There's no surprise to me
02:55as I think I said on previous videos to see him on the radar of Leicester. That was very
03:00much genuine. Obviously we spoke about Leicester not wanting to spend the compensation maybe
03:06to get Carlos Corbijn out of Albion when there were three managers out there that they liked.
03:11Burnley's popped up and been a bit of a persistent link hasn't it? However, I'm not personally
03:17sure from my understanding on the origins of the Burnley chatter really as I've reported
03:23and as we've said for a few weeks, my understanding was that that kind of interest that Burnley
03:29have in Corbijn is wide of the mark now. I was told that a couple of weeks ago now,
03:33two or three weeks ago. Obviously we know in this game things can change but that was
03:38the information I had. So yeah, again, let's see the well documented sort of talks Burnley
03:46have had with the likes of Van Nistel as you pointed out. I think he was at PSV wasn't
03:50he? The Netherlands and people out of work like Lampard and others. Look, if Burnley
03:58had Corbijn on a shortlist and really honed in on him, I don't imagine like Leicester
04:03they'd have that many concerns paying a release cost to get someone like Corbijn out of Albion,
04:09you know, three, four million, whatever it is as we understand around that ballpark.
04:13But my understanding was that he wasn't a target. Obviously, as I mentioned, that can
04:19change but that was the information we had. So that's, I mean, that's good news. Look,
04:24Corbijn's been linked with Spain hasn't he over the summer, La Liga club, Las Palmas,
04:30Canary Island club I think it was. And I think all of these, someone said to me at the start
04:35of the summer, look, links that may or may not come. At the end of the day, you've got
04:40a manager performing well and that's why he'll be on the radar of clubs above. If they want
04:45him and they come and make it happen, there's not a lot you can do about it, especially
04:49if it's to a level above because Corbijn will have ambitions of that, of course he will.
04:54But the Leicester thing's come and gone. Burnley, I don't believe there's much substance in
04:59that as it stands as information I had. So I mentioned earlier on, it's a big week now,
05:08big, you know, kind of not at the end of the summer, but the summer's starting to move
05:12in terms of the players are due back in as we're speaking here and now later this week.
05:18So, you know, I dare say Corbijn and his staff will be at the training ground prior
05:22to that, you know, getting things ready for testing and stuff. The holidays are very much
05:25coming to an end, we're glad to hear. So, yeah, as we've sort of reported all along,
05:31it's business as usual in terms of that prep and that planning for the new season with
05:35Carlos Corbijn.
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