[drewks]

Good article here - some of it is what you would expect, but it certainly gives a glimpse into the depth of our scouting network and the thoroughness of it all:
http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/west...nightmare/

[wba_1996]

Pretty much how I envisaged it but great to get confirmation that we are so thorough.

I honestly imagine the QPR network stretches as far as: "Harry, who do you want?". "Zamora and Kranjcar". "OK".

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Not to mention the West Ham scouting network, which consists of a special surveillance barrow parked on Halfords Lane, intercepting all communications in and out of the Hawthorns.

[BaggieMan]

The set-up sounds very professional to me - it's now a case of seeing how our new influx of players perform over a period of time to see whether the scouting system works. My doubt ATM is Samaras who looks a bit of a donkey from what I've seen of him which as yet is very little.

Still angry at the way we lost Izzy Brown to Chelski. I wonder how he feels seeing Saido in our first team and Izzy nowhere near the bench.

[aries22]

Not to mention the West Ham scouting network, which consists of a special surveillance barrow parked on Halfords Lane, intercepting all communications in and out of the Hawthorns.

Ditto Hull City.

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The set-up sounds very professional to me - it's now a case of seeing how our new influx of players perform over a period of time to see whether the scouting system works. My doubt ATM is Samaras who looks a bit of a donkey from what I've seen of him which as yet is very little.

Still angry at the way we lost Izzy Brown to Chelski. I wonder how he feels seeing Saido in our first team and Izzy nowhere near the bench.

Izzy Brown has already won the FA Youth Cup with Chelsea and the European U17 Championships with England - which latter he would have won with Albion anyway. It remains to be seen if he breaks into the Chelsea first-team squad. I personally doubt he will because Chelsea will always chase high-profile signings, and he would have been better off staying at Albion where he would have had a better chance of playing Premier League football games. Something needs to be done so that clubs losing Academy players - we've also lost two to Liverpool - are properly compensated, not just to cover the costs spent developing those players, but also some sort of transfer fee if this isn't already the case. Your point about Berahino is also that Berahino will soon be on £50,000 a week, whereas Izzy Brown will be lucky to be getting £2,000 a week at Chelsea.