Considering the spend, arrivals and departures, Valérien Ismaël is doing a decent job at Watford. Carlos Corberán is doing an outstanding job at West Brom.”

To which Lepkowski, a former Birmingham Mail journalist responded, “A true metric is generally what a club invests in terms of wages over players’ contracts – not what is/isn’t spent on fees, which isn’t a credible or reflective metric in its own right. Even so, this goes to show the value for £ wba have within their squad. CC doing so well.”