Joseph Masi drops major update on Valerien Ismael’s West Brom future
West Brom have suffered a torturous run of form in recent weeks and the poor performances have rapidly increased pressure on manager Valerien Ismael.
Back-to-back 2-0 defeats against Preston North End and Millwall have turned a large portion of the Baggies fanbase against the Frenchman and they now want a new boss at The Hawthorns.
Things haven’t been helped by a January window that saw just two incoming transfers, one of which as a replacement for the other after Daryl Dike suffered an eight-week injury against QPR.
The Express and Star’s Joseph Masi is the man in the know when it comes to West Brom and he believes that talks have already been held at board level, but no one knows what those discussions came to.
“What we do know is that Valerien Ismael’s future is under serious threat,” Masi said on the Baggies Broadcast, “It is my understanding that conversations have been held at board level about his future and how they are going to progress from here.
“What we don’t know is the outcome from those discussions. They keep a very, very tight ship, there is very few people at the top of the tree and they are tight together and they know that if anything leaks out it is going to come from one of those people.”
More than wins required
It isn’t necessarily just the poor results that has been the biggest bug-bear for West Brom fans, it is the dire performances, even when they’ve won.
Far too often in the past few months, the Baggies have scraped past mid-table or even relegation fodder opponents when they should be commanding the game and blowing these teams away.
Fulham have been able to do this and look set to break all kinds of Championship records on their way back to the Premier League.
Looking at both teams at face value, there is no reason to suggest that the Fulham side is so overwhelmingly better than Ismael’s at West Brom but what happens on the grass is a totally different kettle of fish.
It has got to the point now where even a 1-0 win would receive resounding jeers from The Hawthorns faithful and Ismael has to turn it around immediately if he wants to still have a job come the end of the season.
For the Frenchman, his time at West Brom appears to be rapidly approaching the end of the road and if they want to still be in with a shout of the playoffs come May, they need to act now.
In other West Brom news, a loan deal for this Baggies goalkeeper collapsed late on deadline day.