£4m West Brom Signing Would Be Dream Striker Upgrade

West Bromwich Albion ended the 2022/23 marketing campaign simply shy of the play-offs within the Championship as Carlos Corberan’s facet completed three factors off the highest six.

The Baggies missed out on a play-off place to Sunderland and the membership ought to use the upcoming summer time switch window to bolster their facet with a view to creating a greater fist of a promotion push in 2023/24.

One space wherein they may enhance is centre-forward as their high scorers – Brandon Thomas-Asante and Daryl Dike – ended the season with simply seven targets within the division.

West Brom had been just lately linked with a attainable £4m swoop to signal Blackpool striker Jerry Yates and the Englishman might are available as an enormous improve on present ahead Thomas-Asante.

How did Jerry Yates carry out this season?

The 26-year-old ahead loved a robust marketing campaign with the Tangerines despite their relegation right down to League One and he may very well be the membership’s lacking hyperlink on the high finish of the pitch.

Certainly, Yates plundered 14 targets and missed eight ‘massive probabilities’ in 41 appearances for Blackpool within the Championship proving himself to be a severe risk within the closing third.

The attacker, who averaged a Sofascore score of 6.87, additionally scored eight targets in 23 begins within the league in 2021/22, indicating that he’s a dependable scorer at that stage.

As such, he might properly be an improve on Thomas-Asante who averaged a Sofascore score of 6.66 throughout 33 appearances within the division. He solely scored seven targets and missed a whopping 12 ‘massive probabilities’, demonstrating that the 24-year-old was poor in entrance of objective, failing to profit from the alternatives supplied to him.

The misfiring marksman additionally failed to supply a lot in the way in which of creativity as he averaged 0.5 key passes per recreation and created three ‘massive probabilities’ for his teammates within the Championship. Whereas, Yates produced 9 ‘massive probabilities’ in complete and 0.8 key passes per recreation for Blackpool.

These statistics point out that the 26-year-old would are available and supply extra high quality within the build-up than Thomas-Asante because the ex-Rotherham man has the power to arrange alternatives for others in addition to with the ability to end off his personal.

In consequence, the “immense” Yates – as dubbed by reporter Sean McGinlay – may very well be an enormous improve on the present West Brom quantity 9 as his type for Blackpool proves that he might supply extra in the way in which of targets, probability creation, and normal commonplace of efficiency.

Corberan should now swoop for the Englishman and make the most of his group’s relegation from the Championship to search out the Bagges’ new prolific marksman for subsequent season.