Eric Ramsay: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after nine games

Eric Ramsay: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after nine games

Ramsay joined West Brom following a spell in Major League Soccer with Minnesota United, who he led to back-to-back Conference play-off semi-finals.

Prior to his transfer to the United States, the Shrewsbury-born Welshman was a first-team coach at Manchester United beneath Erik ten Hag and took on an assistant coach function with the Wales males’s staff.

However, his time at The Hawthorns started with 3-2 loss to Middlesbrough earlier than a 5-0 thrashing by Norwich – the membership’s biggest-ever dwelling defeat outdoors the highest flight.

Albion rescued a late level from a 1-1 draw at Derby to cease the rot and in addition picked up factors from goalless attracts towards Stoke and Birmingham.

However, they had been nicely crushed by fellow strugglers Portsmouth and knocked out of the FA Cup by the Canaries earlier than Saturday’s defeat by leaders Coventry.

Following the draw towards Charlton, the one one through which the staff took the lead beneath Ramsay, he instructed BBC WM: “The question around my job and the future is never one I can ever answer or attempt to answer.

“I can solely do what I can do over the course of a day and put my head on the pillow at night time feeling I’ve turned over each stone.

“I’m not saying I’m blameless – I can only feel I’ve controlled what I can control.”

His departure leaves Albion searching for their fourth head coach in 14 months since Carlos Corberan’s departure to Valencia, after additionally sacking Tony Mowbray earlier than the top of final season.

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