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Carlos Corberan explains Brandon Thomas-Asante stance and reveals transfer near miss
Carlos Corberan has admitted that it simply made sense for West Brom to sell Brandon Thomas-Asante to Coventry City in the summer transfer window, after the club weighed up their options and the offer submitted by the Sky Blues.
Forward Thomas-Asante, with no previous Championship experience, ended the last two years - his only two at The Hawthorns - as the club's top scorer but his best year, last season, bore only 12 goals. With a year remaining on his deal, and with City looking to beat Hull City to his signature, Albion decided to part with the striker after Josh Maja's return from injury.
Thomas-Asante has scored three goals in his maiden campaign at the CBS Arena, but only one of those has come in the league and he is currently on a run of 11 matches without a goal. Corberan only has positive memories.
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"The situation with Asante was that he was in the last year of his contract, so we'd have lost him for nothing next year," Corberan said. "You have to sell, or extend and renew and the club understood the best thing was to accept the offer we received. With every player I worked with I was pleased to.
"He was part of the players who we moved from the difficult position in the first season, and then together we achieved the play-offs last season. I can only be pleased with any player I have worked with in the last seasons. I can only wish him the best in his career, because I have a lot of respect and positive feeling for every player in the squad from last season."
Corberan has also revealed that he came close to snaring Viktor Gyokeres while he was boss of Huddersfield Town, but that City gazumped the Terriers with a superior offer which then parent club Brighton and Hove Albion accepted. Gyokeres has been one of the biggest football success stories in modern football having earned his stripes under Mark Robins before leaving for Sporting Lisbon, where he's considered to be among the world's best.
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"Not always when you have financial resources do the signings that you make work," Corberan revealed. "I remember when Gyokeres - who everyone is now talking about - went on loan to Swansea with Steve Cooper. It didn't work. We were offered the player at Huddersfield but Coventry offered more than we could offer. I wanted to have the player, Brighton were loaning him.
"We didn't have the possibility, in this moment Coventry were having the possibility to and now he's...[a £100m player]. I want to tell you that, they pay low and the impact was high. That's football - some players can have low value but they aren't related to performance."
