'It seems obvious': West Brom target view and prediction on what is still required

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Jonny Drury and Lewis Cox discuss West Brom's transfer targets and what they still need in the rest of the window.

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00:00overnight albin had a bit turned down for a full-back in america um they've kind of not been

00:07solidified um a little bit talk about another full-back on the other side of right back at

00:11brighton earlier this morning was doing around yes um does that kind of indicate where albin

00:16are looking you know they're very much could we take from that you know albin have already brought

00:22in two defensive reinforcements it looks like they're after one or two more is could you say

00:28that ryan mason might be not satisfied but quite comfortable with what he's got at the moment at

00:35the other end of the field the fact that i'll be in a continuing defensive positions yeah yeah i mean

00:42there was um it's been mikey moore talk all summer hasn't the spurs youngster who seems to be rangers

00:48bound i think is uh heading off of the border now there's a lot of noise about albin missing out

00:55you know with ranges in in you know with with ranges taking the youngster on loan for the season

01:00i think 17 year old spurs prospect now from what what i understand my understanding is certainly in

01:07terms of that this week is that albin didn't miss out and he was not sort of by the time the rangers

01:12thing you know went went through he wasn't actively being considered now obviously ryan mason knows him

01:19more than anyone and and you know i'm sure we have maybe had a conversation about it but

01:26he's as far as i understand mikey moore primarily you know primarily a number 10 or or maybe out to

01:32the left versatile option in that attacking regard now it doesn't strike me as a main area albin needs

01:39to to bolster really we just spoke about the left-sided thing haven't we and we've seen eyes at price

01:45arguably albin's one of albin's most gifted players playing that kind of 10 position now people will

01:51debate what what is a price's best position is whether it's maybe a bit deeper than that but

01:57um i think i think there's i don't know there's been a there's been davante cole noise hasn't there

02:03i'm not aware of any of that being accurate so far i think portvale mentioned in in league one i think

02:08reading have been suggested but look if davante cole leaves albin this summer that'll be the level he'll be

02:14going to i'm pretty confident about that unless anything comes up abroad but um i just i just

02:22wonder yeah if grant sorry if davante cole goes um you know he's not gonna play too much regular

02:28football is he at the hawthorns then i think albin will act to to bring another body in that forward

02:33line and i think you know you think it's probably one up front and there's three really good options in

02:38hegebo dk major but if you're mason and stuff and you're looking at that i don't know if you agree

02:44with this johnny but are you surely you're concerned about the fact that madge has been out since january

02:51and he's working his way back from something clearly serious and in the penultimate friendly

02:56up to summer can only play a few minutes then dk has yes played most of the minutes but had to miss

03:02out the penultimate friendly and has a checkered injury past and on a hegebo we hope is a massive

03:08hit but he's new to english football i think you'd be a little bit concerned about that if i'm honest

03:12certainly if you're willing to let cold out can find a move there i think albin will be looking to

03:16to stock up there really i do um oh yeah i would say you know i think it's clear that they want

03:24two fullbacks from what we've kind of we've seen uh i think the left's more of a priority isn't it

03:29given reports that george campbell can play on the right yeah yeah but what we've seen i think i

03:35would be surprised if one didn't come in um i do still think you need another central midfielder

03:41um that's a ball playing midfielder i'd probably say more so or kind of a bit of an all-rounder

03:48does he go and look for another winger you know we've had those links to mikey moore whether that

03:54whether that is because it's mikey moore and you know all the fact that he wants a winger i'm not

04:00too sure and i do think you're right i think they need another center forward you know albin have been

04:05far too light in that area in recent years where they've been hit with you know an injury and not

04:12a frontline strike yet they are in a better position than they've been in for the last two or three years

04:17they've got hegelberg they've got dk they've got magic but like you say there's two of them of

04:20two of that three are question marks certainly in terms of fitness and their kind of injury record

04:27and you don't want to be in a position like last year where you you're sort of flogging hegebo every

04:33week because the other two have picked up injuries yeah wearing down you know madger broke down and

04:39he didn't play again for the rest of the season so i i would say i think albin needs four more

04:44yeah before you factor in x's yeah yeah yeah yeah and it and if x if players do go you know then

04:57that that kind of happens but i would say minimum four more yeah which i think you know i i think it's

05:04pretty fairly clear we'll see a you know alone or two as well isn't it you know perhaps more here's a

05:10quick one um to you and obviously people listening whose answers we won't be able to hear but um

05:16say we get to september the second september the third and albin's wide players are tom fellows jed

05:22wallace carlin grant and mikey johnson are you content if i could give you the end of the window now

05:27and none of those go and those are the two you know two options for one side two options for the

05:31other side is that acceptable you know are you are you satisfied with that i i would say you're

05:40satisfied but i would say alvin

05:46yeah satisfied but i would like to see a reinforcement in that area you know yeah

05:50competition at least if someone who's going to put i think if you look back at the alvin

05:54sides of the past that have done well in the championship they've had options in the wide areas

05:58you know there's been players kind of pushing players that can come in i think you look at it

06:02now yeah grant can do a job you know if you're replacing kind of confident with dead wallace no

06:06disrespect to dead wallace he's not yeah it's his career he's gonna change the game as much as tom

06:12fellows kind of is i don't think the squad is a million miles away but i would say for

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