'Mowbray found a way to score goals - but West Brom striker need a striker' - video Dailymotion

Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox discuss West Brom's striker search on the latest episode of the Baggies Broadcast.

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00:00What's interesting is it's been mentioned a couple of times and I've written about it

00:04today as well. Tony Mobay's got that recent background with Amad Diallo hasn't he at Sunderland?

00:11Where I think there was essentially a whole season where he didn't really have a striker

00:14up at the Stadium of Light and Diallo was so often a false nine and he's scored a lot

00:21of goals, a lot of goals. Now we all know Amad Diallo is now a superstar and playing

00:26well for one of the biggest clubs in the world and that's fair enough. He was a mercurial

00:31talent when Mobay had him at Sunderland and you don't really get championship players

00:34like that that cost £40m to Man United. However, Tony Mobay got it out of him, found a position

00:41for him where others had failed. Diallo had failed at Rangers. I don't know how the start

00:47of his Sunderland time went. It was just a bit of a glimpse of that. Now obviously Jed

00:53Wallace is a very different example, a very different player, part of his career. It was

01:00a surprise but it worked. Wallace looked sharp, he did well. What a false nine of that role

01:07has to do. Now I know Jed Wallace in that role has failed before, failed being a hard

01:13word but it's been a struggle. It's been underwhelming. There's not really been the productivity in

01:19front of goal but he did all the things well the other day. Go to your point, it shouldn't

01:27and I don't think it will change plans for Mobay, for Ian Pearce, for Andrew Nesta. I

01:35don't think they'll watch that and think, OK, now we don't need maybe the number nine

01:41we thought we needed because Jed Wallace has had a good game as a false nine. I don't see

01:45that.