Corb the builder... can he fix it at West Brom? Yes, he can!
Carlos Corberan is, in the words of one Spanish football expert, a ‘developer’.
He builds, improves, creates. That is a significant in why chief executive Ron Gourlay decided he was the club’s ‘outstanding candidate’ and why, indeed, Guochuan Lai signed off the deal.
Albion wanted – and needed – a builder. An improver. Someone capable of lifting the club from its knees and re-establishing it, first of all among the second-tier big-hitters pushing for promotion. Beyond that, a rise back to the top flight is the aim. A huge, gargantuan task for a 39-year-old with one top job in England behind him, particularly when you factor in Albion’s off-field failings – but Corberan is an impressive young coach packed full of intensity, passion and belief.
He radiated those characteristics at his press unveiling on Thursday afternoon. Corberan begins his tenure with a home clash against Sheffield United. It will surely not prove smooth-sailing, there is simply too much to address.
But Corberan will build. He will lay what – in his beliefs – are the right foundations, weed out what is not working and hopefully Albion will have finally have discovered some much-needed stability following a ninth permanent head coach, or manager, in five years.
Respected Spanish broadcaster Guillem Balague has tracked Corberan’s career across a number of years and insists the ex-Huddersfield head coach will respect the stature of the club he has joined.
Balague told the Express & Star: “He is number one a club man who will never think he is bigger than the club, like some managers do.
