A series of not unfortunate but entirely miscalculated events have left West Bromwich Albion searching for a fifth permanent manager within 14 months.
Considering the Baggies have been under their current ownership for almost two years, this is no coincidence. Forced to make the most crucial of decisions when Carlos Corberan left for Valencia, it has been misstep after misstep ever since from Bilkul Football WBA.
You toss a coin these days in the EFL when new suits walk in and the side it lands on will either lift you closer to the promised labd or, as in West Brom’s case, drag you further away than you have been for years.
There seems to be little in between, and even though hindsight is easy few saw the mid-season appointment of a 34-year-old former futsal player going well.
Forty-four days in charge tells you exactly how it went for Eric Ramsay, so too that club president and sporting director Andrew Nestor left earlier this month.
Nestor’s departure alluded to trouble behind the scenes and Ramsay’s dismissal underlines it, the former Manchester United player development coach arriving a gamble from MLS side Minnesota United and leaving with West Brom in a greater mess – not of his making but the club’s.
Eric Ramsay was sacked after 44 days at West Brom (Photo: Getty)The obvious question is why did West Brom land on Ramsay in the first place? But that is also futile now, and the more important ones are where do they look next, and just how costly could this nine-game winless stint be on their Championship survival prospects?
They are 21st in the table, in a dogfight with Leicester City below them and a string of fellow Premier League alumni above them. They can’t all stay up, and once the ultimate yo-yo team between the top two tiers, clearly that string snapped at the boing-boing Baggies when Shilen Patel took the reigns in February 2024.
West Brom appointed a 33-year-old in Ryan Mason last summer and after that did not go to plan, they took a bigger risk with Ramsay. Once bitten, twice shy does not apply here, and what reeks of gross incompetence has left fans fearing the worst.
Not like it was much better when former owner Guochuan Lai was loaning money from the club to pay off his own debts, but when new owners come in after passing a “fit and proper” EFL test, it is wholly dispiriting for supporters to realise they cannot back up saving the club with enough savviness to properly run one.
West Brom though are just another Championship case study for taking the stabilisers off young managers. Southampton hired a 32-year-old Will Still last May then sacked him in November, before hiring 32-year-old Tonda Eckert in his stead. Danny Rohl (Sheffield Wednesday) and Tom Cleverley (Watford) were 34 at the start of roles they have since left.
For one Eddie Howe, 31 when he first managed Bournemouth, there are at least 10 Ramsays and Masons, managers who can hardly be blamed for accepting roles they were offered but were not ready to ride solo.
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What Mason and Ramsay needed, what West Brom needed – and still need – was and is experience. So where is it? Have managers like Tony Pulis, Alan Pardew and Sam Allardyce been shunned by the game? Or have they shunned the game?
“I think society in general looks down upon older people, who have got wisdom and experience, in order to move forward with a totally different attitude,” West Brom supporters’ club chairman John Homer tells The i Paper.
“I honestly hope Ryan and Eric find some success in the future. Everybody makes decisions with the best intentions, and they hope it starts something different, but I think with Mason’s appointment, if you’re going to do that, get somebody there to hold his hold almost as an apprenticeship.
“What you need is somebody who knows the ropes, knows the Championship, and has experience of the plight we’re in. A mix of youthful exuberance and experience means you could feed off each other.”
In James Morrison, the 39-year-old ex-Baggies midfielder now into his third interim stint, they at least have someone who gets the club. He will though require a helping hand with such jeopardy ahead.
With 12 games to go, their status as a second-tier team hangs in the balance. That is not befitting of the club they are, they haven’t been in the third-tier since 1993, and in further signs of the times, they are surrounded by a host of clubs who also believe they should not be looking down either.
The Championship though is not forgiving, and somehow West Brom have just three months to make the right decisions after two years of getting them wrong.
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