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Compared to how much they did own, it's barely nothing. Rather just a brand lease.
I didn't know anything about skybet but a couple of people have posted this so I checked and it appears they do or at least they have the same parent ownership ultimately.Sky don't own skybet mate.
Why would we send him to west brom. It makes no sense at all. They play the complete opposite of the kind of football he should be involved in.
Because the alternative is to send him to the Championship where he's already played and we know hes good enough for it.
I'd rather keep him than loan him to WBA.
I'd rather keep him than loan him to WBA.
I agree with most of that. Also particularly important is sessognon is a similar type of player to pritchard, only pritchard has better delivery, something Pulis loves.
But its bullshit to say we play more long balls that West Brom. We are 10th in the league for long balls played, and play more passes than most teams. So long balls make up only 13 percent of our total passes. West Brom are joint second in the league for long passes and 20 percent of all their passes go long.
The complete table by long passes bellow
1Watford
82
2Manchester United
72
3Crystal Palace
72
4West Bromwich Albion
72
5Leicester
71
6Everton
70
7Southampton
70
8Norwich
70
9West Ham
70
10Tottenham
69
11Aston Villa
68
12Newcastle United
68
13Sunderland
68
14Liverpool
64
15Swansea
64
16Stoke
64
17Chelsea
63
18Bournemouth
62
19Manchester City
55
20Arsenal
49
And a few selected percentages bellow, my computer is acting a bit weird so cant compile all of them here but they are freely available on whoscored.com
Watford 20%
WBA 20%
Palace 18
Man Utd 13%
Tottenham 13%
Didn't they score on us from a long ball?According to this stat - Everton are 6th highest in long balls. Really ? Because from 8 to 10 Everton games I have seen this season, they never play long.
haha...I watched the goal...true in a sense. But then, within a seconds of the goal, Sky commentator says - its long pass not a long ballDidn't they score on us from a long ball?
Yeah I hadn't really factored in the Pulis effect and how that might not be best suited to Pritchard's game.
But Pulis presumably wants him for a reason, so hopefully he'll use him.