Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Contenders at West Brom as Pardew goes

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ALAN PARDEW has left West Brom by mutual consent with six games of the season left.

The Baggies are near-certaintie­s to go down after Pardew failed to inspire a turnaround in their form after replacing Tony Pulis.

Here, Press Associatio­n Sport looks at some possible replacemen­ts:

The former Baggies boss oversaw draws against Tottenham and Newcastle when he stepped in on a temporary basis prior to Pardew’s appointmen­t. Those two games in charge reinvigora­ted his reputation after almost six years out of management and Megson admitted at the time that the experience had “whetted the appetite” for football again. The 58-year-old twice won promotion to the Premier League with West Brom when he was manager between 2000 and 2004.

The man asked to step in to mind the shop in the wake of Pardew’s exit, could Moore be the long-term solution? Made over 100 appearance­s for the club during his career as a centre-half and has been working on the coaching staff, promoted to working with the first team by Pardew after his appointmen­t.

Pearson performed a miracle to keep Leicester in the Premier League during the 2014/15 campaign, winning seven of the last nine matches after the Foxes had managed just four Premier League wins all season prior to that run starting in April. That is exactly the kind of impact West Brom are in need of. The 54-year-old is another to have managed Albion on an interim basis, having won three and drawn one of his games in charge after Bryan Robson was sacked in 2006. Pearson is currently seemingly happy in the relative footballin­g backwater of the Belgian second tier with OH Leuven.

The most successful English manager in European club competitio­n this season, Potter has worked wonders with Swedish minnows Ostersund - and happens to have played for West Brom between 1977 and 2000. Potter would be a brave and left-field choice but the 42-year-old’s record in Sweden stands up against some of the very best in the business. He has come to prominence this season by getting Ostersund out of a Europa League group which included Athletic Bilbao and Hertha Berlin and also mastermind­ed a 2-1 victory over Arsenal at the Emirates in the knock-out stages of that competitio­n.

With the Baggies headed for the Championsh­ip, Silva would need some considerab­le persuasion to drop down to the second tier. However, after a questionab­le spell at Watford, his stock is not as high as it once was. Would be a statement of intent for West Brom, but unlikely.

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