West Brom boss revelling in work alongside new club owners
Boss Carlos Corberan is relishing the regular communication with new Albion hierarchy Bilkul Football.
The Hawthorns head coach is in weekly contact with Andrew Nestor, who has assumed the role of sporting director with Albion and is chief executive of ownership group Bilkul.
Owner and chairman Shilen Patel is never far from the phone for Corberan where the former is at his Tampa home. It is a far-cry from the invisible presence of his predecessor Guochuan Lai.
It is understood Nestor, who has previously been based in Florida and New York, is Bilkul’s permanent presence on the ground in the Black Country as he, Shilen and the owner’s cousin Ashish, also a Bilkul board member, plot strategies for the short and long term of the club.
Corberan, explaining the dynamic between himself, the ownership and existing directors, said: “My relationship with Ian Pearce has not changed from my first moment here. When I arrived Ron (Gourlay) was the CEO, Ian Pearce the head of recruitment. After Ron moved it was Mark (Myles) as (acting) CEO and Ian was head of football operations. There was no change in our relationship.
“Now Mark is still here, Ian is still here, we have the same relationship as before. Now with Shilen as an owner I have that contact, that I probably didn’t have before with the (previous) owner.
“Andrew is a sporting director who didn’t change any type of communication between any people working here – he added to it as someone who I have a weekly conversation with, normally. We are talking in detail and when they come here I always spend time with them, I like to spend time with the people in charge and they want to spend time with me.”
