West Brom coach happy with Brown Ideye's improvement

 

West Brom Alan Irvine has expressed happiness with the progress of Brown Ideye is making since his return from an injury.

Ideye who is a record signing for the midlands club, has struggled to settled since his £10million switch from Ukrainian side, Dynamo Kyiv.

And Irvine even criticised Ideye for his slow progress, dropping him for a league game against Leicester City.

But now Irvine is impressed that he is gradually settling into the rigors of playing in the English Premier League.

"I think he’s progressing and I think he did a lot of good things,” Irvine told Birmingham Mail.

"He had a good chance to score, and probably should have done, but is getting sharper and sharper and better with each week that’s passing and I feel it’s only a matter of time before he gets his first Premier League goal.

"His record in the past is one where he’s scored goals. He missed pre-season and came in to us late – anyone who misses pre-season will find it difficult to catch up – and unfortunately he then got an injury just as he was getting close to playing and that set him back.

"He’s been unfortunate. I didn’t anticipate the injury so I didn’t expect him to take quite so long but that was something he couldn’t control and obviously it was a bitter blow for him and a bitter blow for us,” he added.