Jed Wallace speaks out over Gary Rowett links to West Brom managers job
The search for a new manager goes on for West Brom with Richard Beale all set to take charge of their next fixture away at Reading.
One man who was touted for a move to The Hawthorns by The Sun (12 October) was Millwall boss Gary Rowett but the journalist Rich Cawley quahsed those rumours on Twitter on 13 October.
Jed Wallace played under Rowett last season for the Lions and admitted his return would have been mad on the BBC’s Football Daily Podcast.
“It’s well documented that I probably played the best football of my career under Gary at Millwall and I got on well with him, Wallace said.
“I said to my missus last night it would be like breaking up with your missus, moving 300 miles up the road only for her to move into the flat above you and join the same gym.
“It would have been a bit mad but crazier things have probably happened in football but I’ve got a good relationship and I enjoy playing under him.
“Whoever we bring in as manager, I’m looking forward to new ideas and playing under whoever that is going to be and ultimately, I just want to start winning games.”
Championship ceiling
Despite sitting in a lowly 22nd place in the second tier, West Brom have to be aiming to hire a manager who has the ability to take them back to the Premier League and then keep them there.
There is nothing to be gained by bringing in another Bruce-like manager who is alright in the short term but has no long-term vision or desire.
In the entirety of world football, there should be plenty of young and excitable managers who could grab a hold of the club and completely change the philosophy to one that embodies winning on the pitch.
Valerien Ismael was never that prior to Bruce and neither was the veteran, who at least gets the chance to head to Australia for the Cricket Twenty20 World Cup as he would have wanted.
Rowett is also not the man to go for with his ceiling being confirmed as the Championship over several jobs in the Football League at various types of football clubs.
In other West Brom news, if the Baggies want to hire this Championship manager then they will have to pay a whopping sum of seven figures to do so.