00:00Baggies fans, welcome back to ExpressingStar.com on this transfer deadline day. There's a few
00:13hours left until the window closes at 11pm. I'm not going to call it January transfer
00:18deadline day because it's not. We're in February. It's a bit of a weird transfer under this
00:22year. I'm here with Lewis Cox. We brought you a video earlier on. Not a great deal has
00:26happened but we're expecting it to in the coming hours. Alec Palmer, out for £5m. Ipswich.
00:33Tama Banny in from Randers as we brought you this afternoon for just over £3m. They attack
00:40in midfield. Harlan Grant still being linked with a move away from Albion. And as Albion
00:46fans will have seen, a few reports in the last couple of hours. Feels like rinse and
00:51repeat from the last couple of transfer windows. Edderton reportedly interested in Tom Fellowes.
00:57Two reports saying that bids have been submitted of £10m and then £15m, a bid that was reportedly
01:03rejected. We've confirmed that that is false. Those bids have not been submitted.
01:08Boxi, it stirred up a little bit of angst among the Albion fanbase. We suppose it did
01:13late in the summer window when St Ampton come in for, I think, around £10m to £12m. As
01:18it stands, it very much looks like Tom Fellowes will be an Albion player after the 11pm deadline.
01:25It's far, far too late for Albion to even entertain a bid. But even if those bids that
01:31we had reported before were submitted, I am sure they would have been pretty much flat
01:35rejected.
01:36Yes, good evening Jonny. The good news for Baggies fans watching this and in general
01:43when it comes to Tom Fellowes is that there is no news. Basically, we can pretty flatly
01:48knock those down. Edderton have held a long-standing interest, haven't they? As you say over a
01:54couple of windows, this is nothing new. I did suspect at some point this month, I mean,
01:59I think it was potentially earlier a month, Fabrizio Romano, I think, pushed it a little
02:04bit. I wondered if it'd crop up again on deadline day and here we are. But yes, suggestions
02:10of a £10m deal being agreed seemed absolutely crazy to me, really. I don't think that one
02:18took much knocking back, really, considering Albion turned down more than that in the summer,
02:23as you say. And Tom Fellowes has since gone on to lead the Championship assist standings
02:28at the age of 21. Just nonsensical, really.
02:31As you say, there has been another suggestion since that the Toffees have come in with an
02:38approach of £15m. As you say, Johnny, we're also told that is not true. So, yes, we're
02:45expecting that to remain the case until the 11pm deadline we're speaking at, sort of,
02:51early evening time, just gone seven. So, yes, I wouldn't expect that to change now. I think
02:58the crux now is a couple of things, really, this month. Certainly, with the ownership
03:03of Bilkul as well, Albion don't have to sell Tom Fellowes. The finances, the stability
03:09of the club don't rest on it and that's one clear thing. If this whole episode was happening
03:1512 months earlier, just prior to the takeover, then potentially a slightly different conversation.
03:20But no, as was in the summer, Albion don't have to sell Fellowes. But also, we're talking
03:26about 7pm on transfer deadline day here, where, OK, as you say, even if that deal, even if
03:32a £15m offer was real and genuine, and I don't think that's an offer Albion would want
03:37to accept, by the way, but if they did, less than, what, three and a half hours to reinvest
03:42it now, isn't there, and find a suitable replacement? And when you're talking about Fellowes, it
03:47would take quite a significant replacement, wouldn't it? So, yes, no news there, nothing
03:51to read there. Other clubs credited of interest as well, weren't they, in that latter report?
03:55Brentford, Bournemouth, those kind of high-flying Premier League clubs at the moment who do
04:01invest well, typically. I don't think, my reading of Fellowes' situation, I don't think
04:05it's any great secret, and I think most would agree that if Albion don't win promotion to
04:11the Premier League this season, and aren't playing top football next season, I think
04:15the summer interest in Fellowes will be significant. And we'll see how the rest of the season goes
04:21for Fellowes, really, and how many more assists and goals it can chalk up, but I would expect
04:27heavy interest, and that would be the time for me, I think, where Albion would have to
04:31look at it, and not have to sell, but look at it and really consider the sums being offered
04:36to them. Obviously, they could dig their heels in and command the fee they want, and then
04:41obviously have the time to reinvest it properly on a proper, significant, substantial fee
04:47to reinvest, and obviously, Tom Fellowes is an academy graduate. The money that would
04:52come in for him would be hugely, hugely significant for PSR and all of those financial fair play
05:00regs. So, yeah, nothing doing today, thankfully, on Fellowes, and yeah, it's more about the
05:07three-and-a-half hours we have left, more about the ones, as you say, we brought you
05:12earlier and just those getting over the dotted line with the announcements.
05:16Yeah, like you said, we're expecting the Alex Palmer deal to go through in the coming hours,
05:21and the Tamir Bani one. The other one that's up in the air at the moment, Coxey, is the
05:25Carlin Grant talk, the Carlin Grant exit talk. Obviously, I don't want to say falling down
05:29the pecking order under Tony Mowbray, but Tony Mowbray come out and said he'd had these
05:33talks with Carlin Grant about him playing on the left, and Mikey Johnson was ahead of
05:36him. That's now coincided with talk over the weekend, and talk today ramping up of a potential
05:43loan exit we mentioned earlier that Derby are interested in. That's been well publicised now.
05:48Do we know any more on that one, or is it a case of waiting and seeing? If it doesn't
05:51go through, he stays, and he's still in the plans moving forward?
05:56The Burnley rumour that we sort of knocked back this morning, who was told at the time,
06:03it's not one that's on in terms of Burnley having a permanent interest. It seems to have
06:07re-emerged in the last couple of hours. Now, it's hard to know in a fluid transfer deadline
06:14day whether that's just sort of old stuff resurfacing that isn't quite accurate, or
06:19genuinely it's moved on. I think it's interesting, isn't it, because we're talking about Burnley
06:25in one hand, who are obviously fighting for automatics. On the other hand, we mentioned
06:29that the loan and a club like Derby who are seriously struggling at the other end. So,
06:34I think I saw amongst just fan chatter really, and certainly fan chatter from South Wales,
06:40I saw Cardiff mentioned earlier on the back of obviously a successful loan there before,
06:45and they're struggling, and why don't Cardiff go back in, was what their supporters were saying.
06:51And it kind of makes sense, doesn't it? If you're rivals elsewhere in a championship,
06:55you're seeing Carlin Grant's potentially available, certainly for a loan, after the
07:00first half of the season he's had. It's a bit of a surprise to me they wouldn't be all over that.
07:06No, it remains to be seen. I haven't heard anything more concrete on it. Like we said
07:11earlier really, I think either is understandable and acceptable really. I think if Carlin Grant
07:17remains in situ, he remains a very good viable option who is having a great season, and I don't
07:24see that he's just been told by Tony Mowbray that he's not going to feature again this season. That
07:29just won't have happened. He'll be a viable squad option that just, as you say, is just
07:34a rung or two or three further down the pecking order than he was a month or so ago. But it
07:41doesn't take much, does it? Just a drop in form, injury, whatever, for him to be back near that 11,
07:48in that 11. Obviously Will Lancashire signed on loan from Spurs last Friday, playing one of those
07:55front two positions as Albion line-up formation-wise at the moment. You've mentioned
08:02Tama Banning, who's checking in from Denmark. He's an attack-minded midfielder,
08:11versatile, number 10 around that area. So again, in and around the positions Grant plays in,
08:16which will have done nothing for his pecking order. But I think it's one at the minute,
08:21at this stage of the window of the night, where either or. If Grant moves out on loan and Albion
08:27saves some, makes a saving on the salary, yeah, OK. But are they going to be able to dip in to be
08:33able to use that at this stage of the night? Or does the saving go towards a player they've bought
08:39in or just the pot generally? But no, you know, Grant's staying for depth, for competition,
08:45to push others on. I'm sure he wants to play, of course he wants to play.
08:48Look, but him staying is fine, I think, for the baggies and, you know,
08:53strengthens their forward positions for the last, what, three, four months of the season.
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