Albion boss to discover Lai of land on budget
TONY Pulis will discover the size of his transfer war chest when he meets West Bromwich Albion owner Guochuan Lai in China next week.
Pulis will fly out with chairman John Williams and chief executive Martin Goodman for crunch talks with the club supremo.
A summer transfer kitty will be high on the agenda for Pulis. The Welshman is keen to freshen up an egy Premier League gives you the ageing squad, which has overmy. chance to im improve other achieved massively this season. “It’s not just the e things and we have to talk
And he will waste no time in plotlot of things and it will be nice to see spending of money, , about things. ting his summer recruitment, with a what his views are. it’s the structure of thee ““I’ve I’ve mentionedmenti the acadflight to the Far East booked 24 hours “We won’t know until I come back club and the way he sees emy a and we have to after Albion’s final game of the seafrom China what the budget exactly it developing over a peritalk about that as son at Swansea on Sunday. is. It gives you the opportunity. You od of time,” Pulis said. wel well.
“We’re flying out Monday, we’ve don’t need too long to talk about “That’s very importantnt for “How do we got Tuesday and Wednesday and what we want to talk about.’’ everybody. ge get those players then we fly back Wednesday evenIn addition to the financing of new “Front of house is fro from 17 or 18 to ing,” Pulis said. players, Pulis will also pick Lai’s brain the most importantnt play men’s
ppff “I think we’ll go through most on his vision for the club in the long thing about a footballll football and get things. We will go into detail over a term. That includes a long-term strat- club, but being in thee morem prepared for Albion’s acade- ade- for the chances that, if they’re good enough, they will get if I’m manager?”
There will clearly be a serious commercial theme to the trip but Pulis is hoping to mix business with pleasure and is eager to experience what life is like for his Chinese paymaster.
“It’s going to be the first time I’ve met him on terms where we can sit down and have a cup of tea together and be ourselves,” Pulis added.
“It will be nice to meet him as a human being, one on one.”
Front of house is the most important thing about a football club but being in the Premier League gives you the chance to improve other things Tony Pulis