Lewis Cox on West Brom's squad and why it is stronger this season

Lewis Cox and Jonny Drury return for the latest episode of the Baggies Broadcast.

Transcript

00:00On the recruitment side, what I find interesting is that, numbers-wise, they're not better

00:07off, are they? The squad size is the same. Corbijn has essentially rebuilt what he had.

00:14He sort of lives by a mantra of outfield positions, I want two for every position. That's what

00:22he aims for. That's what he's got again. I think we could go through it all, but we don't

00:26have to. That's what he had last season, really. Numbers-wise, he's rebuilt. But what's

00:34most impressive, I think, especially given the financial fair play restraints. We reported

00:40on that all summer, didn't we? There wasn't necessarily funds to go and spend that Bill

00:45Cool had, albeit obviously what emerged with Mikey Johnson at the end in that £3m bid

00:52as Albion were able to make the finances work. It's the calibre and ability and general

00:59profile of players that have come in, by and large, to replace those that have left. I

01:04think fans see them as, for the immediate and for the long-term, better for the club.

01:11Just belief in the recruitment and, I suppose, just see a confidence and a vision under the

01:19new ownership. That's another thing, isn't it? First summer under the new owners, they

01:23had a lot to do, a lot to try and support the head coach with, while having one hand

01:29tied behind their back, as Shillam Patel wrote earlier in the summer, didn't he? Resourceful,

01:33prudent, outside the box. It just looks like they've delivered on it.