West Brom manager Tony Mowbray will not compromise his beliefs about playing free-flowing football to survive in the Premier League as he closes in on the signature of Real Mallorca midfielder Borja Valero in a club-record £4.75m deal. The Baggies scored 106 goals last season as they won the Coca-Cola Championship and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup before losing by a single goal to eventual winners Portsmouth. And Mowbray, whose side were beaten 1-0 at Arsenal on the opening day of the season, will stick to the same philosophies. The former Hibernian boss said: “We can’t go and kick lumps out of anybody. We haven’t got that type of player. “Everyone keeps telling me ’go and get a centre midfield player’. I’m not interested in central midfield players just for the sake of it. “I’m only interested in...
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