WBA’s O’Shea linked with Burnley transfer

West Bromwich Albion defender, Dara O’Shea, has been linked with summer time switch transfer to fellow Championship membership Burnley.

What’s the information?

In response to a current report from Football League World, Burnley boss Vincent Kompany has set his eyes on bringing O’Shea to Turf Moor as a possible substitute for Nathan Collins, who just lately joined Wolves.

The defender joined the Baggies’ U18 facet again in 2015 and has since gone on to make 103 appearances for the Midlands membership throughout their senior and youth groups, scoring seven objectives and offering 4 assists within the course of.

Final season noticed the 23-year-old make simply 14 league appearances for the Baggies as an ankle fracture stored him out of motion for a big chunk of the marketing campaign.

Regardless of this, the Irishman nonetheless managed to finish the season as West Brom’s highest-rated participant by way of his general performances, as WhoScored gave him a powerful ranking of seven.09/10.

West Brom followers could be gutted

The Baggies’ 2020/21 Premier League season noticed the centre-back make 28 appearances wherein he managed to indicate off his defensive expertise.

In these 28 appearances, O’Shea received 30 tackles and made 53 blocks, 39 interceptions and 143 clearances.

Taking all of this into consideration, it’s protected to say that the participant is a giant asset for the membership and could be a giant loss for them if he have been to depart this summer time.

It could even be a giant disappointment for the followers to see O’Shea be part of one other membership within the division trying to get again to the Premier League as it will little question hurt their very own possibilities of being promoted in 2022/23.

Ought to WBA take into account promoting Dara O’Shea?

Moreover, with fellow Baggies defender Cedric Kipre reportedly near becoming a member of Cardiff Metropolis, seeing the Irishman go away in the identical window would absolutely be a giant blow to the membership and their probabilities.

Consequently, West Brom should not have any intention of permitting O’Shea to depart the membership this summer time, as his defensive abilities might be the distinction between seeing the membership attain promotion or succumbing to a different season within the Championship.

If, nevertheless, the defender have been to make a transfer to the Lancashire membership within the coming weeks to hitch Kompany’s ranks, this might absolutely imply West Brom must search for an acceptable substitute earlier than the window closes.

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