Brown Ideye: big flop for West Brom

Brown Ideye, Nigerian international has failed to live up to expectations as a striker in premiership club side West Brom since his £10 million record summer signing.

The disappointed club have decided to offload him at a loss of £6.2million.

A price of €5m (£3.8m) has been agreed with Al Gharafa of Qatar way down from a £10m purchase price last summer.

The Nigeria striker has failed to impress at The Hawthorns, scoring just twice in all competitions – a tap-in from two yards against Hull and a deflection off the back of his head against Manchester City.

Tony Pulis needs to raise cash to plough into fresh deadline-day signings and chairman Jeremy Peace has sanctioned the knockdown fee.

Negotiations still need to be finalised over the method of payment, leaving the possibility the transfer could yet hit the buffers.

However, much work has been done in the window to offload Ideye and all involved would like to see the move complete.

*Reported by Mail Online