Cost £8m, now he’s unemployed: Bilic made a mistake signing West Brom flop.
Due to West Bromwich Albion’s summer transfer activity, Carlos Corberan will be all too familiar with the disappointment of losing a quality player for no reason.
Having been an intimidating presence at the back for the promotion chasers during the 2023–24 campaign, Cedric Kipre left the Hawthorns for nothing this off-season. However, Kyle Bartley and Semi Ajayi have both been able to come up to the plate in his absence thus far this Championship campaign.
Going the other way, there are other instances where losing a player for nothing is actually a benefit, with the individual in question, unfortunately, becoming a flop that needs to be taken off the roster.
Kenneth Zohore certainly fits into that latter category, with the Danish striker costing the Baggies an obscene amount to land in 2019, only for the ex-Cardiff City man to struggle throughout his cursed stay in the West Midlands.
Zohore’s time at West Brom
There were undoubtedly some doubters about Zohore’s ability to score goals while playing for Cardiff when he signed a big contract to join West Brom. But these folks were definitely mistaken from the start.
Many were left wondering why West Brom, then under the leadership of Slaven Bilic, had paid £8 million for the Danish striker, who would only score 24 goals in 101 games for the Bluebirds overall.
While Zohore occasionally had a purple patch in front of goal in the capital of Wales, questions were legitimately made as to why the second-tier team chose to spend big money on an attacker who had previously been labelled as “lazy.”
The Scandinavian forward would just never settle at West Brom, with the towering 6 foot 2 striker only registering a lacklustre five goals from 23 appearances, before finding his contract had been torn up in 2023.
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