West Brom interested in Leam Richardson

West Brom are wanting in direction of different Championship managers as they contemplate potential heirs to Steve Bruce on the Hawthorns, with Wigan Athletic boss Leam Richardson one man on their shortlist.

The Express and Star report that Richardson is one among a number of names that Ron Gourlay is contemplating because the Baggies look to show round a stunning begin to the season which at present has them in twentieth place within the Championship.

Richardson has earned lots of plaudits throughout his time at Wigan, first performing a minor miracle to maintain them in League One within the 2020/21 marketing campaign as they struggled to deal with the 12-point deduction that noticed them relegated from the Championship the season prior.

The 42-year-old took the reins at Wigan when seemingly no person else was keen to and steered them to unlikely security earlier than successful the League One title within the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

The Tics at present sit seventeenth within the Championship after successful 5 of their opening 14 video games this season, with survival very a lot the goal for the Lancashire facet of their first season again within the second tier.

It’s straightforward to see why Richardson is attracting the curiosity of the Baggies after serving to remodel Wigan from League Two certainties to a cushty Championship facet within the area of simply two years.

Journalist Josh Bunting praised Richardson for his work with Wigan teen Thelo Aasgaard, saying:

“He’s such a fluid younger participant, very clever together with his play, Leam Richardson is the proper supervisor to work with him.”

Certainly, it will very a lot seem as if Richardson is the ‘excellent’ supervisor basically, with these within the Latics squad very a lot taking to the younger coach because of his varied strategies.

Up to now, the previous Chesterfield assistant supervisor has taken cost of 79 matches because the everlasting Wigan boss, of which he has received 41, drawn 17 and misplaced 21, recording a formidable points-per-game common of 1.77.

This represents a major improve on the 1.13 factors per recreation Bruce averaged throughout his time at West Brom and with an arguably higher squad at his disposal, there appears no purpose why Richardson couldn’t be successful on the Hawthorns.