What Mark Miles' departure could mean for West Brom and what changes could Albion make

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00:00Saying that, Johnny, there has been a little bit of a change in the hierarchy, so to speak.

00:06Yeah, Mark Miles departed earlier this week.

00:08Someone who some Albuy fans may not know an awful lot about,

00:11but had been at the club for a long, long time, since 2003.

00:15He was a director, kind of worked his way up to various roles.

00:18He was managing director a few years ago and stepped into the chief executive breach

00:23when Ron Gawley departed Albuy in the depths of the lie era,

00:27or the very end of the lie era.

00:30And steadied the club through some pretty choppy waters.

00:34Albion fans have probably got a lot to kind of maybe thank Miles about,

00:39because he played a hand in Shillam Patel becoming interested in Albion.

00:44Shillam Patel has talked about it in his statement,

00:46kind of sold the club to Patel and sold the vision of Albion to him.

00:53Yeah, he is stepping down and moving on.

00:56There's an interesting line in the statement as well, which I'm not sure some Albion fans may have seen,

01:01but he said Albion will confirm further changes to its organisational structure in due course,

01:07which is sort of reading between the lines there.

01:10There might be new roles, might not be a managing director coming in.

01:13I imagine it will be a chief executive being appointed.

01:16There hasn't been a kind of chief executive entitled since Gawley,

01:20who is now with Carlos Corbran at Valencia.

01:24Obviously, Mark Miles was assuming those roles, I think was the official line.

01:28But yeah, I imagine Albion will bring in a chief executive.

01:31And it'll be interesting to see who, because Albion are in a good position now.

01:36It's probably, if they do, if that is the change and they bring in a CEO,

01:40I'm not saying there's any truth in that at all.

01:42It would just be my sort of educated guess.

01:44But, you know, they're a club now that are quite an attractive proposition,

01:48you know, for someone to come in and have a real kind of impact with.

01:53So, you know, and obviously Bill Cull and Andrew Nester are very connected,

01:58whether they go and bring someone in who's worked in the US and in the M&A.

02:02Before, obviously, Nester's, a lot of Nester's history is in the US.

02:06Remains to be seen.

02:07But yeah, Mark Miles, you know, big thanks to him, I think, from Albion fans,

02:10because, you know, he kind of was having to hold the floor in a pretty tough time.

02:16But yeah, what's his face in terms of what happens next?