Warren Stephens

West Midlands, UK. Supports & mostly tweets about West Bromwich Albion; probably a bit too argumentative; food, drink, travel (69/193 🌎).

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@sjpatel212 Demba Ba, Ricardo Fuller, Andy Johnson (Blues/Palace striker), Peter Ndlovu.

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@gillpind When you say hounded, we'd gone 10 league games w'out a win, conceding 18 in process (little evidence of defensive organisation) & were careering towards relegation. The transfer strategy he oversaw that summer left us with no legs in midfield & no effective outlet ball up top.

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@WStand13 @Lott777 Am assuming Dominic Price will have a big say in strategic direction, so might be completely different to what we've seen before, albeit you'd hope it'd be centred on markets that potentially provide value for money, like they do.

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@dazzavilla Very impressive. Slightly less so if you just consider the last 100 years, during which Villa have accumulated only 1 top division title and 1 FA Cup. In that same period, Wolves have managed 5 and Albion 3. Most of Villa's domestic success was before the first world war.

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@jhwbafc I also had a stinking hangover after the Saturday night in Newcastle, to the extent I got up and left at 3-0 and missed the glorious comeback.

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@rickyleegriffi @DanielO17536458 If you take away tribalism and rivalry from football, there's not a lot left. Of course Grant/Mepham won't care it's Villa & they can be mates with who they want. But they also get paid enough money to be cognisant of the optics of publicly celebrating the success of rival clubs.

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@Knave_of_Albion I think PSR might've been more manageable now & become trickier for others. Perhaps SP thinks the £11m/yr flexibility top-ups will benefit us, if he's willing to invest, albeit Stoke/Blues/Wrexham/Boro etc likely do same. Seems from FAB notes that revenue growth is a priority.

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@TheVan @suttonbaggie Couldn't agree more. He's got no outstanding attributes & lacks fortitude - he'll happily lose personal battles and go missing, which has been emblematic of our decline. There has to be better value on the market than giving him another contract.

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@AlbionAnalysis Furthermore, he's the only player at the club who signed their current deal whilst we were in the PL so it's almost certain that he's on a very generous contract, for which we're not seeing value for money. Definitely let him go. We need players with a stronger mentality (2/2).

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@AlbionAnalysis He has no outstanding attributes, lacks end product, is physically weak & far too happy to routinely lose personal battles. That we have fans citing him as one of our better players, because he's started putting effort in since his Cardiff loan, shows how far we've declined (1/2)

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@AlbionAnalysis If Morrison wants to keep him & sees him as a useful asset, then it's perhaps worth offering him a shorter contract heavily weighted in appearance fees & goal bonuses. Would still argue, however, we need to bring in front players with different characteristics to those we have.

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@isaactactics Shilen Patel wrote an open letter less than 2 months before we sold Heggem, telling us we still needed to sell. It was one of multiple statements in the last 12 months from club's hierarchy, which your other tweet suggests you missed. What else do you think they should have said?

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@davesmith442 There might be truth in that. I don't think Dowling was a fan of the football we were playing. Also, we'd won 4/10 with a top-3 budget & blown the automatics, including a drubbing at Leeds. He's right about the lack of succession plan, but we were out of form when he was sacked.

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@Richwolves64 @BaggieBoys_ @KieranMaguire You mean like this - https://t.co/cZjH2a2Phv? Also, in your last season in the Championship, your loss in that one year was about £15m greater than the one we've been punished for, over three years. There's really no basis for you to be so sanctimonious.

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@gillpind Whilst I agree our squad was capable of much better, I think it was also left very imbalanced and you have to also look at recruitment. We had no right-back for 5 months, a lack of mobility in midfield, didn't replace Fellows and had absolutely no pace at the top of the pitch.

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@spenna1988 Sarmiento also made the playoffs. I guess it's also conceivable that Charlie Taylor could return to Southampton as a Premier League player.

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@LeeMWickstead I last saw him at QPR, just before Christmas.

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@Nik_Ader Don't apologise, it's difficult to fully summarise with limited characters. Like you, I think/worry that they'll be strong next year.