Darren Moore has continued his assembly of a West Brom side fit to make an instant return to the Premier League by beating Championship competition to sign left-back Conor Townsend from Scunthorpe United, for an undisclosed fee.
Meanwhile, reports in Italy suggest that Moore is open to the idea of offloading former England international Kieran Gibbs, with Torino interested in securing the left-back’s signature.
With one left-back coming in around the same time that a more experienced one coming it, it is tempting to consider that one may be a replacement for the other.
With Chris Brunt and Allan Nyom at the club and able to deputise in the left-back role, Townsend could well take on the role of first-choice left-back from Gibbs, so we asked West Brom fans whether they would like that to be the case.
They don’t; 74 per cent of the fans who responded do not want new-boy Townsend to start ahead of Gibbs during the new season, as shown by the full results below…
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