Steve Hermon, BBC Radio WM’s West Bromwich Albion reporter.<\/p>\n
James Morrison’s appointment as interim head coach for the rest of the season is aimed at bringing some short\u2011term stability to The Hawthorns, but the club’s long\u2011term vision is now partly in the hands of another man in his 30s.<\/p>\n
Dominic Price’s arrival as technical director had long been expected.<\/p>\n
It was a role Albion hinted at in the summer when Andrew Nestor was still there as president and sporting director. <\/p>\n
The American departed in January, so rather than working under him, the 35\u2011year\u2011old will report directly to American owner and chairman Shilen Patel, with Mark Miles supporting the hierarchy on the ground in his role as executive director.<\/p>\n
Price’s arrival finally brings some added English football experience to the offices at the training ground. <\/p>\n
Price, who also has a law degree, will be tasked with overseeing the club’s academy, which has produced top talents who’ve progressed to the first team in recent years such as Tom Fellows and Alex Palmer. <\/p>\n
It is also worth remembering that current England and Aston Villa star Morgan Rogers was a boyhood Baggie. <\/p>\n
The most recent success is 19-year-old Ollie Bostock, who scored his first senior goal just last weekend, so there’s a solid base for him to build on.<\/p>\n
The medical and sport science departments will also come under his watch, as will the use of ‘football technology’ and strategies to help with squad planning. That may include the use of data, which was something Nestor perhaps relied too heavily on.<\/p>\n
It’s important to note however that Price will not be responsible for the actual recruitment process. <\/p>\n
That responsibility has returned to Ian Pearce, whose previous record in terms of player signings has been questioned by some fans. <\/p>\n
The former defender has been with the club for eight years and was credited with bringing Carlos Corberan in 2022, though. <\/p>\n
He will no doubt hope to replicate that success as he searches in the background for the next permanent Baggies boss \u2014 one who will, hopefully, be managing a second\u2011tier club next season. <\/p>\n
As for Price, he wants to ‘drive standards’, which have drastically slipped in recent times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Hermon, BBC Radio WM’s West Bromwich Albion reporter. James Morrison’s appointment as interim head coach for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}