Martin isn’t West Brom’s saviour

West Brom are nonetheless searching for their Steve Bruce alternative and one man touted with a possible change to the Hawthorns is Russell Martin.

The Athletic claimed that the younger supervisor, who’s presently in command of Swansea Metropolis, is one man on Ron Gourlay’s shortlist because the Baggies search for a brand new chief to push them up the desk.

After a powerful spell at MK Dons, which chairman Pete Winkleman described as “amazing“, Martin has earned plaudits for his fashion of play with the Swans and presently has them eighth within the league after some sturdy current type.

Nevertheless, that type got here to an finish with a bang on Saturday, as they have been trounced 4-0 at Burnley in a sport that highlighted the constraints of Martin’s fashion of play.

There was some non-existent defending for Burnley’s first aim as Vitinho was left unmarked on the again publish to go in, whereas Martin’s philosophy of taking part in out the again performed an enormous half within the third, as Ben Cabango’s slack move was capitalised on by the hosts.

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If he have been to reach on the Hawthorns he would undoubtedly stick with these rules, as he bolstered in a viral video.

He said: “If it doesn’t work and I get sacked, at the very least I get sacked doing one thing I imagine in. I don’t get sacked regretting that I’ve bowed on my rules.”

Implementing that type of fashion takes time and ends in a whole lot of errors on the again at first, which was emphasised final season when the Swans shipped 68 goals within the Championship as they completed fifteenth.

Even with a extra spectacular standing to this point this season, there are nonetheless solely three groups which have conceded greater than Swansea’s 20 targets, which means that they’re removed from defensively strong.

Sir Alex Ferguson famously stated that assault wins you video games however defence wins you titles and if West Brom have any aspirations of returning to the Premier League within the subsequent few years, they need to appoint a extra defensively sound supervisor.

The Baggies might be hoping that this season can nonetheless be salvaged, so maybe a supervisor as inexperienced as Martin isn’t the saviour proper now.