da casino： Last summer West Brom striker Saido Berahino was the subject of summer transfer talk when Tottenham offered £23million for the youngster.
da bet nacional： As a promising frontman, he looked to be on the verge of becoming one of the few good English strikers in the Premier League.
But once West Brom blocked the transfer, the striker’s head had already been turned. Since then, he has only gone on to score four goals, and has looked like a player not wanting to play for the club.
Last season was West Brom’s best player, scoring 14 goals in 38 games. It was that form that led to an England call up, and looked to show Berahino as England’s next rising star.
Yet as soon as the Tottenham interest came in, his form started to dip. Why shouldn’t a young player want to earn that bigger move? At Tottenham he had the opportunity to be a first team striker playing alongside England U21 team mate Harry Kane.
Rather than getting his move, Berahino was instead kept at West Brom, with no agreement being put in place for his move. What followed was a player being punished for wanting to dream big, and has led to a good youngster rotting on the bench.
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Considering West Brom are 14th and struggling for consistency, it can only be down to the form of Berahino. With Berahino in the side last season, West Brom finished 13th and pulled off a few shocks on the way: beating top teams like Tottenham, Manchester United and Chelsea. It looked like this new Tony Pulis side was going to start climbing the Premier League table.
But it’s yet to happen, and this season West Brom are just seven points off the relegation zone. Whether or not Berahino is worth the fuss can only really be seen once he moves to a top club, though.
He certainly isn’t lacking confidence in his ability, and it will be interesting to see just how much he can step up to the mark should he earn a move away from the Hawthorns in the summer. Rather than keeping a player who evidently does not want to play for the team, West Brom should take the money, make profit and let him go.
Only then, once Berahino is making his name at a club, can we judge whether the youngster is truly worth the fuss.
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