West Brom-focused Twitter account @BaggiesHQ recently posted a tweet asking the club’s supporters to share their thoughts on Rickie Lambert’s time at the club and this post has drawn a largely negative reaction from the Baggies fans who have been responding to it.
As per Transfermarkt, Lambert joined West Brom from Liverpool in the summer of 2015, costing the Baggies a transfer fee of £3.78m. He made 24 appearances for the club in the 2015/16 campaign, scoring just once and providing two assists, that term. He subsequently made just two appearances for the club the following season, failing to make a goal contribution in either of those games, before he departed from the Baggies on deadline day of the 2016 summer transfer window, joining Cardiff City.
With that record in mind, it may not come as a huge surprise that these Baggies fans weren’t particularly complimentary about Lambert and his time at The Hawthorns. Read the replies of some West Brom fans to this post about Lambert in the tweets below.
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https://twitter.com/BaggiesHQ/status/1263156532222418944
He was finished another waste of money
— jay (@Jaywba1982) May 20, 2020
— neilharvey (@neilharvey1974) May 20, 2020
I had really high hopes he’d do well but it just didn’t work out. Think what little time he played for Liverpool didn’t help.
— Lizzie Hayward (@ehayward93) May 20, 2020
Is it Rickie Lambert's fault that he didn't succeed at West Brom?YES, IT'S HIS FAULT
NO, IT'S THE CLUB'S FAULT
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Overweight and legs gone .Fed him well though ..with cash.
— Clifford G (@wba1957) May 20, 2020
Did he even arrive
— col (@Baggies8383) May 20, 2020
Overweight
— ian griffiths (@griffraces) May 20, 2020
Money grabbing
— Derek Poulton (@DerekPoulton) May 20, 2020
Probably the worst player I’ve seen for us since I’ve been going to matches
— Rohan Stretch (@RohanStretch) May 20, 2020
What do we think?
After leaving Cardiff City “by mutual consent” in the summer of 2017, Lambert officially retired from professional football in October 2017. This is just over a year after he departed from West Brom so it may be fair to say that Lambert was on the decline by the time that he was a Baggies player.
While he struggled at West Brom, Lambert did earn the right to call himself an England international during his career and it may be harsh to criticise his time at The Hawthorns too much, considering that the club brought him in at the tail end of his career.