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Ten could go in Albion summer cull
Friday 10th April 2009, 11:30AM BST.
Albion could sell up to 10 players in the summer to fund a revamp of the Hawthorns squad.
Manager Tony Mowbray might cash in on one of his stars, to raise transfer funds if the Baggies’ relegation is confirmed.
He hopes to fund his summer spending by offloading fringe players from his squad.
But, if those moves fail to happen, the manager might consider selling a ‘big hitter.’
He said: “If we’re going down we need to revamp. We need to make money to bring players in and the only way we’re going to do that is by selling players. There is no money to buy them. We need to generate money.
“I know we’ve got saleable assets, but the ones we sell will be the ones we want to sell.
“I would suggest that anybody who leaves our club will do so because we want him to leave – and I will tell people if that’s not the case.
“That might be to create some funds to redress the balance of the squad.”
Mowbray is under no financial pressure to sell players, with next year’s wage-bill for the existing players already budgeted for.
But he is keen to freshen up his squad and will need to raise any extra money in the transfer market.
He said: “There are still people from two years ago in the Championship who rarely play in the Premier League.
“If we go back to the Championship, I need to decide whether to freshen it up and give supporters new heroes.
“I may need to sell four, five, six, seven, up to 10 players that might create enough money for me to sign one or two players who would make all the difference.
“But I may well sell another player to generate money to bring in other players.”
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what player will generate any money tone
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I would be happy for any of them to go apart from Koren and Olsen!
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Its the wrong time to be talking about this Tony.
Just when you need everyone to pull together to fight for the cause to avoid relegation you are causing uncertainty and speculation.
A few of the Prem managers especially the ones Albion still have to play, might just see this as an opportunity for a few mind games by announcing who they would like from your squad of players.
As You have brought the subject up, are these some of the players you have in mind???:-
Hoff
Robbo
Czech
Morrison
Koren
Tex
What do the rest of you guys think??
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Back to the drawing board yet again.
Jeremy will be over the moon again, parachute money guaranteed,reduction in wages on all players who will go from championship wages to Division one wages(NO I HAVE NOT GOT THAT WRONG).
As Gary Megson recently reminded us “When we got promoted the first time in 2001- 2002, we had the 17th highest paid players in the league” SKINFLINT !!!!
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Its that time of year to sort out the END OF SEASON FANCY DRESS ihave 2 ideas lets go topless as a reference to they are not fit to wear OUR shirt or lets go out in a blaze of colour dig out the beachwear Blackpool ere we come????
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ELAINE I STILL LOVE YOU XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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3, I wouldent like to see brunt go,tho he aint done it in the prem until recently i think hes a top quality championship player,aye boing boingwe aint down yet
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My Ten To GO======
Hoefkens
Robbo (1st to go aswell)
Meite
Pele
teixeira
kim
Morrison (just because he wants to)
moore
fortune
beattie
???what do you think???
BOING BOING!!!..REAL FANS STICK WITH THERE TEAM THROUGHOUT THE BAD ASWELL AS THE GOOD!?
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why not dress up as ebenezer scrooge for the last game as a protest to mr peace
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my 10 to go.
1 mowbray
2 grant
3 meite
4 pele
5 moore
6beattie
7 kim
8 hoff
9 kielly
10 simpson
11 fortune
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You lot should be playin’ in red overalls next season with all that PARACHUTE money.
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Given his appalling record in the transfer market, (£3.5m for Luke Moore anyone) should the first contract to be cancelled be TM’s and then get someone in who has a clue?
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HAVE WE GOT ANY BIG HITTERS THEN?
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No 9 stick with the team ??? you just got rid of it Boing Boing, Terry: we aint down yet I`ll drink to that hic,hic,hic
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On teletext TM is reported to have said that tomorrow ain’t a must win game and even if we lose it ain’t all over. Frank says he has hopes of being selected to go to the World Cup next year and suddenly , after never hearing from him , you can’t shut Peter Grant up. I don’t know what they’ve started injecting into the half time oranges at the Albion, but it sounds the bizness to me and if it’s cheaper than beer, put me down for some please.
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Fancy dress, fancy dress, you’ve been in fancy dress all season.
why don’t you go to Blackpool disguised as a football team that would be different.
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Vote with your feet ( or your wallets ) if you dont want to watch the same sideways rubbish
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Its funny to read how the constantly negative posters will always fing an angle to have a go about…. A few weeks ago when TM was defending the players in the press, people were demanding that he “get real” or “tell it like it is”.
Now that he is being honest about the players we have the “wrong time” or “unsettling the squad” comments… the bloke just can’t win. What a good job it is that he won’t care what you say – he is his own man and calls it like he sees it.
I look forward to reading you all trying to find a negative angle when we are top of the league and playing well…. oh hang on, thats the wolves aint it.
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tony mowbray & borad should get the sack,like many of the players,luke moore £3.5million joke,carson £3.5million cost us a lot of points,£4.7 for a ballerina,chris brunt a total joke,best BARGIN BUY olason,fell sorry for roman who is our top goal scorer and works is socks off,mowbray plays two loan players who have not been scoring.MOWBRAY GO NOW.
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What about Kit Carson. Probably the poorest goalkeeper ever seen in any league. Englands No 1 YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING.
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I would suggest that Tony stops using the phrase “I would suggest” & I would suggest that he admits that it is his fault entirely that we are going to be relegated. This, I would suggest, is because of his stubborn approach to how the game should be played. Pretty football in areas where no damage is inflicted on the opponents is no good at all as our points tally shows. A bit more of the Hull / Stoke approach was required & we would have stayed up. Before anyone points out that we aint down yet, get real!.
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im going as the village idiot again,loffinwolf can i borrow your wolves top plz aye boing boing blackpool
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I know Tone has amade a few mistakes, but i find it quite amazing that our neighbours down at the custard bowl have the nerve to come on here gobbing off, look at the results over the last 5 years, cant wait to see how you get on next year.Thats if you dont end up doing one of you famous end of season bottling jobs..
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ONLY TEN !
Mowbray must think that he just needs to tinker with the squad then !
The whole of the back six have to go inclusive of that “donkeythug” Robinson.
Then there are the Donkeys up front Moore & Co.
So I make it 18 altogether including Mowbray & Peace, still Iv’e saved over £400 and got my weekends back because of that lot – so I’m happy !
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15 cov,i think i will have a drink with you,infact i think i,ll have 2,aye boing boing hic hic hic
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20. Shifnal.
Soz mate but do you mean Boratt?
If hes been at the Albion, its no wonder we are in trouble!!!
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19. Happy.
Your right! He can’t win and albion aint winning
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It would be a lot easier for everyone concerned to name the ones he should keep ie Olsen Koren Dorrens Miller, give me another few hours & i might think of one other.
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OUT………. CARSON, ROBINSON, MEITE, ZUIVERLOON, HOEFKENS, BARNET, PELE,MOORE, BEATTIE,,
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Luke moore is not even a championship player…
Carson, always blaming others round him. Others that i would categorise as rubbsih am
kim
hoff
kielly
simpson
and Fortune
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IN…………. FOR A START BRIAN (THE BEAST) JENSEN COMMANDS HIS AREA, CAN CATCH AND HOLD THE BALL, IS A GOOD SHOT STOPPER, WONT BE BULLIED, WONT COST US POINTS, PLAYED WELL IN CUP GAMES AGAINST PREM OPPOSITION, AND IS NOT A CLOWN LIKE S.C……..WITH CLEM AND OLSON AT THE BACK
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it will all come good in the end,,this time next year we will be celabrating having it all wrapped up with 5-6 games to go,,get ya dollars on the baggies early and reap the rewards..easy beer money…OOOOOOOOOOOOOH YES,,BACK IN STYLE..
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My 10 to go
Robbo
Zuiverloon
Meite (GET HIM OUT)
Barnett
Tex
Pele
Moore
Daniels
Morrsion(Hopefully not)
The Hoff
Mowbray Sign me up!
ill happily play for nothing and do a much better job than some of the current squad!
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Happy old son, you’re wasting your time with the moaners. Take David, No.25. He’s saved £400 so he’s happy. NOBODY made him spend it last season although then, we had just won the CCC as CHAMPIONS! Maybe TM is warning some of the ‘couldn’t care less’ clan that they may be on the dole soon. They just might decide they’ve let him down and ‘put in a shift’ until the season’s end. Wulfies, don’t get all smart-arsed. There’s still time to blow it and even if you don’t, what makes you think you’ll do any better? There is a ‘Moment Of Truth’ for all boasters. To the JP knockers: we appear to be £7million overspent. How do you equate ‘MISER’ to that? Have you looked at your own credit balance to see how you manage your income? Hands up all those financial experts on here who are in the black down the local Barclays.
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25 Dave, I agree entirely they wont be getting my £400 either.
But let’s take it further. If the players wages are going down in the championship why are the season tickets going up?
Fifty quid more to watch that rubbish, they’re having a laugh aren’t they???
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The first player to put a transfer request in will
be Paul Robinson,Mowbray should be playing
Marek Cech as he`s the future for our club.
MY ALBION TEAM FOR PORTSMOUTH:
Kiley,Martis,Meite,Olsson,Cech,
Morrison,Valero,Greening,Koren,Fortune,Bednar.
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Question.
The good ship Albion is sinking fast.
All the rats are scrambling overboard.
Do they swim around while the rest of us get her afloat again or do they come to rest on another ship in the meantime?
We should be told.
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Emergency loan signings to help save season:_
1. Frank Carson (GK)
2. Johnny Vegas (RB)
3. Peter Kay (LB)
4. ROY “Chubby” Brown (CB)
5. Alan Carr (CB)
6. Justin Lee Collins (MF)
7. Jasper Carrott (MF)
8. Richard Hammond (MF)
9. Jeremy Clarkson (CF)
10.James May (CF)
11.Sam Dingle (CF)
subs
12. Shadrack Dingle
13. Ossie Osbourne (GK)
14. Benny from Crossroads
15. Compare Meerkat.com
16. Steven Ward
17. Nigel Quashie
18. Tomasz Frankowski
Might only bring a small improvement,but at least you’ll have a laugh.;-)
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to captin bob no 39 bloody funny that team but i,m injured so leave me out LOL
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Just as I suspected. This season isn’t over yet but already Tony is informing us that he will have no money to buy new players next season unless he sells first. So the parachute payment is already spoken for!?!
Don’t believe this ‘fringe’ player speculation.I’m sorry to say that TM will be keeping most of this pathetic squad for next season.
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Valero , Carson and Moore won’t get you 1mill for all of them!
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just get rid of peace his the one with the shortage of funds waste of time
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Why not make it eleven and include the gaffer.
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We have absolutely NO positives to take from this season, weve been crap.
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