How Respected English Coach Destroyed Nigerian Star Forward’s Premier League Career

Brown Ideye’s stay at English Premier League outfit, West Bromwich Albion was a disaster because of the coach in the club at the time, it has been gathered.

The Nigerian player was a record signing at the club when he joined for about £10 million, but injuries and unconvincing performances were responsible for his eventual sale to Greek club, Olympiacos during the last transfer window.

Brown Ideye, during his unveiling at West Bromwich Albiom

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Richard Garlick, the club’s director of football administration has now explained why the Nigerian star failed to hit the ground running, noting that they were sure that they had captured the player at the right time and the appropriate amount, based on the “the recommendations of the recruitment department”.

Alan Irvine was in charge of the Baggies when Ideye joined and Garlick admitted that the former had little or no input in the signing of the Nigerian.

According to Garlick: “He was recommended. The target list that was put up for that season there were three strikers of which he was one of them which the recruitment department had recommended.

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“Unfortunately what happens in football…. at the time it was Alan Irvine who didn’t know the player and was reliant upon the recommendations of that recruitment department.

“Alan was new coming in and had not had chance to look, so he got presented with it. It wasn’t like he was just plucked out of thin air.

“Those were the recommendations. We had reports on him, he’d been looked at four or five times over a period of time. It wasn’t like we didn’t know the player. There were reports, he’d been seen live.

“But you ideally would want it to be the head coach or the assistant but there was no way that could happen at the time. His goalscoring record was good, what you could see on the clips was good, he’s actually a really good guy, a good character.”

The player was also recently listed as one of Olympiacos’ stars to face the likes of Arsenal, Bayern Munich and others in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League competition.

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