West Brom-focused journalist Joseph Masi recently appeared on The Express and Star’s ‘Baggies Broadcast’ podcast where he revealed his thoughts on Slaven Bilic’s future.
Bilic joined the Baggies back in June 2019, signing a two-year contract at The Hawthorns. After managing the club for 37 league games so far during his first season as West Brom boss, Bilic’s side currently sit in second place on the Championship table, six points clear of third-placed Fulham and having lost the fewest amount of games of any side in England’s second-tier this term.
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During his recent appearance on The Express and Star’s Baggies Broadcast podcast, Masi was asked if he would give a long-term deal to Bilic if West Brom earn promotion to the Premier League for next season, to which the journalist replied: “He fits Albion so well and if he takes them up, I’m sure he’ll get a new deal.
“Long term, I don’t know, and the reason why I don’t know is because of Bilic himself, and things he’s said about West Ham.
“He talks about football management and when he talks about it, he always says this to us: he says ‘it doesn’t take a lot for it to go wrong’. He says ‘everything in football snowballs’.
“When things just start slightly going for you, they build, they build, and you can have success and when things just start to slightly go against you, they build and they build, and it can be very, very hard to stop it.”
Masi then goes on to laud the work that Bilic did during his time as West Ham United manager from June 2015 until November 2017, before saying: “I’d really want [West Brom] to give him another two-year deal, which would obviously include the year he had, but I think you’ve just got to go with it with football, it’ll all be natural.
“I don’t think you need to tie anyone down to a five-year deal, a six-year deal, or a four-year deal, or anything like that.”
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Considering how impressively he has performed in his first season at West Brom so far since joining the club back in June 2019, plenty of Baggies fans may want to see the Croatian coach remain at The Hawthorns for the foreseeable future.
Bilic achieved a seventh-place finish in the top-flight in the 2015/16 season with West Ham. This remains the highest position that the Irons have finished in the Premier League since the 1998/1999 campaign when they finished in fifth place, with the club only achieving a seventh-place Premier League finish on one other occasion since 1999.
With that in mind, it may be fair to say that Bilic has shown that he can deliver results in the Premier League and West Brom fans may hope that he can achieve similar results at The Hawthorns if given an adequate amount of time and backing.