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West Brom: Fans react to alleged Slaven Bilic social media post

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Some West Brom fans have been reacting to a tweet which shares an Instagram comment that was allegedly posted by Slaven Bilic, showing him responding to another comment which called for the West Brom manager to join Turkish club Fenerbahce. 

A West Brom fan recently took to Twitter to share an Instagram comment which was allegedly posted by Baggies manager Slaven Bilic in response to another Instagram user who asked him to join Fenerbahce. The Croatian manager’s post in response to this request consisted of two hearts and a wink. This West Brom fan’s tweet sharing Bilic’s recent alleged Instagram comment has got some Baggies supporters talking. 

Read the reactions of some West Brom supporters to the tweet which shares Bilic’s alleged recent social media interaction in the tweets below.

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To kick off our quiz on the inaugural 2004/05 EFL Championship campaign, who managed Sunderland to a first-place finish in the 2004/05 Championship season?

Do Fenerbahce have a chance of stealing Slaven Bilic away from West Brom?

YES, FENERBAHCE ARE A BIG CLUB

YES, FENERBAHCE ARE A BIG CLUB

NO, BILIC IS COMMITTED TO WEST BROM

NO, BILIC IS COMMITTED TO WEST BROM

What do we think?

As the tweets above show, some Baggies supporters appear to have come to the conclusion that the two hearts that Bilic posted, one black and one white, refer to Fenerbahce’s league rivals Besiktas, who the Croatian previously managed from June 2013 until May 2015.

Fenerbahce have reportedly been eyeing up Bilic as a potential candidate to become the club’s next manager. However, when he joined West Brom in the summer of 2019, Bilic stated that the Baggies have got “a short-term project and a long-term project”, which the club wanted him “to be the one to lead them in”, as reported by the BBC.

The Baggies are currently sitting in second place on the Championship table, six points clear of third-placed Fulham, who are currently their nearest challengers sitting outside of the league’s automatic promotion places at the moment. As a result of their positive league position, it may be unlikely that Bilic will leave the club after just a season at The Hawthorns, having spoken about leading the club’s “long-term project” upon originally joining West Brom.

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