Don Goodman makes Tom Fellows to Everton January transfer wish amid West Brom ‘concern’
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Don Goodman does not believe it makes sense for West Brom to sell Tom Fellows to Everton, but he hopes the player is loaned straight back if a deal is struck this month.
Everton and Leicester City are said to be closely monitoring Fellows with a view to making a move before the January transfer window closes [Daily Mail, 20 January].
The Albion academy product, who has been at the club for over a decade, is due to be out of contract at the end of the campaign and will therefore become a free agent in the summer.
Fellows has recently become a key part of Carlos Corberan’s plans, but the club’s perilous financial situation could force their hand if an offer is tabled over the next week or so.
While Goodman believes Fellows is better off staying at The Hawthorns, he would understand it if the Baggies had no choice but to bring in funds to keep things ticking over behind the scenes.
“It pains me to say it, but they don’t have too many saleable assets,” he told West Brom News. “It’s not like they’ve got a Matheus Pereira that they can go and get £15million pounds for.
“They haven’t got anyone in that bracket. I don’t think Tom Fellows going to Everton would be good for him or West Bromwich Albion to be honest.
“If Everton were desperate, you’d like to think they’d sign him and loan him back to West Bromwich Albion for what remains of this season.
“I can’t imagine West Bromwich Albion just allowing Tom Fellows to leave given their shortage of forward players.
“From the moment I first saw him earlier this season, I’d never seen him or heard of him, but I thought ‘I like him’.
“He’s sharp, lively, aggressive in that he likes to take defenders on and hurt them, so I think West Brom have a really good player on their hands.
“His emergence, given their injury crisis and Grady Diangana going to AFCON, Jeremy Sarmiento leaving, it has been very timely.
“Other than that, I don’t know the financial situation other than it is a concern, but have they got enough to get them through the season?
“It is a worry, and therefore you wonder if they can’t raise funds, if they will just let someone go slightly cheaper to get funds through the door. You’d hope they’re not yet at that stage.”
In other West Brom news, a report has shared the latest with regards to any incoming activity at The Hawthorns before the transfer window closes.
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