West Brom managerial latest: Eric Ramsay and Ryan Mason discussion

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Lewis Cox and Jonny Drury bring you the latest managerial discussion on the new episode of the Baggies Broadcast.

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00:00Yeah, he's a very striking character, you know, very intense, methodical.

00:06His use of language is phenomenal, really, the way he speaks

00:09and can relay and detail things.

00:13I remember being blown away at the time.

00:15And this is, by the way, what would that be, seven, eight years ago?

00:18So obviously that was his sort of hometown club at the time.

00:22He's got a big football family, Eric Ramsey, his brother's involved in the game.

00:25And obviously tracked him from there, eventually from Shrewsbury

00:29in that coach role he left for Chelsea's academy,

00:32which was a hell of a move for him at the time.

00:34You know, it would have still been late 20s, I think.

00:35By the way, at the time, he was the youngest coach holder in Britain

00:40to have his foe licence, which was something, you know,

00:43that obviously attracted headlines.

00:44Chelsea, then Manchester United with Ten Hag and then obviously overseas.

00:48So good for him.

00:49You know, it's great to see.

00:51I think my opinion on interest in him,

00:55and I gather that he's pretty well settled over there,

00:59is my sort of understanding of it.

01:01And I don't believe he's in an immediate rush to get back over.

01:05Before the Albion chatter, I did see Southampton links,

01:08which says a lot.

01:09But I think Southampton would probably be attractive to him, I'm sure.

01:14But yeah, that feels like a little bit of a leap for Southampton,

01:18dare I say, a bit of a gamble.

01:19I think with younger coaches who are on the way up,

01:22that word gamble can be thrown around loosely, can't it?

01:25Like, you know, they haven't had too many jobs,

01:27got too much experience type thing.

01:29You just have to take a punt.

01:31I see, you know, Eric Ramsey do similar sort of work

01:34as Kieran McKenna at Manchester United.

01:37You know, I've seen McKenna now at Ipswich,

01:38and look how that's gone for him.

01:40So it's just, it's almost,

01:46because I do think it's the profile that the Albion,

01:48you know, the Bilko decision makers will be looking at, really.

01:51I don't think they'll be put off too much by lack of age

01:55or, you know, someone who's just had the one role type thing.

01:59So maybe it's what, you know,

02:01what Eric Ramsey sees for himself, really,

02:03in his pathway, because he's doing very well over there.

02:06Beat a certain Lionel Messi the other day, didn't he?

02:08And David Beckham's mob at Miami.

02:12What a result that was.

02:12I think he's got Minnesota second in the table.

02:15Just quickly on Ryan Mason.

02:18He was talking about experience, CVs, lack of jobs and all that.

02:23He's not been a permanent boss, has he, Mason?

02:27And I would imagine he wants to be.

02:28I'm sure that's what his ambition would be.

02:30He's been a coach for a very long time

02:31because of that early retirement from the awful head injury, was it?

02:36Had two sort of caretaker spurs links.

02:39And I mentioned gamble risk.

02:42I think that's a big one.

02:44If you're going to offer someone of, he's the same age as Ramsey, he's 33.

02:47If you're going to offer him his first permanent head coach manager stint,

02:51that's a big call, isn't it?

02:54Someone who hasn't done it before.

02:56You know, Eric Ramsey's now done it, albeit in the MLS, but he's done it.

02:59And I'm not saying Mason can't do it.

03:01I think Ryan Mason's quite impressive.

03:02And I think he could go on.

03:06I'm sure he'll go on and have a stellar career.

03:07But it's just a big call from Bilkel, I think.

03:10Although I do gather and understand they did have a look,

03:14I'm not sure how strongly, at Mason in January.

03:18So this isn't sort of out the blue fresh.

03:22There was, you know, there was potentially something there before.

03:25So, yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?

03:28But that's where the profile is, I think.

03:32But again, I don't suppose it has to be.

03:34You know, it doesn't have to be an early to mid-30-year-old.

03:38It can be, you know, if you're head coach in your 40s in Europe doing well,

03:43I think you're around sort of heading into your prime time, aren't you, in your career.

03:48And, you know, they'll view someone as wanting to take that,

03:51maybe that next step to England for the first time

03:53and look to get to the Premier League, stuff like that.

03:55So that's how I see it anyway.

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