Rickie Lambert joined West Brom from Liverpool – and scored twice on his debut for the club three hours later.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old striker signed a two-year deal for a reported fee of nearly \u00a33m and netted goals in a 4-0 victory over his former club Bristol Rovers.<\/p>\n
“Rickie is a good, strong, solid player who is a great character, good in the dressing room and good on the pitch,” said West Brom head coach Tony Pulis.<\/p>\n
“We are very pleased to have him on board.”<\/p>\n
Lambert’s contrast in fortunes<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\n| 2013-14: Lambert reached double figures for goals and assists – no player achieved that the next season<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2014-15: <\/strong>There were 119 players who scored more goals than Lambert in the Premier League<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n | Lambert becomes the club’s third summer signing, following the acquisitions of James Chester and James McClean.<\/p>\n Craig Gardner and Victor Anichebe also scored for the Baggies at the Memorial Stadium in their most emphatic win of pre-season.<\/p>\n West Brom are the eighth club the Kirkby-born Lambert has played for, having started his career at Blackpool.<\/p>\n He came to prominence at Southampton where he scored 117 times in 235 appearances, after signing from Bristol Rovers in 2009.<\/p>\n Lambert then realised a lifetime dream last summer by joining the club he supported, Liverpool, in a \u00a34m deal. However, he failed to rediscover his Saints scoring form at Anfield, managing only two league goals in 25 games for the Reds last season.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rickie Lambert joined West Brom from Liverpool – and scored twice on his debut for the club three hours later. The 33-year-old striker signed a two-year deal for a reported fee of nearly \u00a33m and netted goals in a 4-0 victory over his former club Bristol Rovers. “Rickie is a good, strong, solid player who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":139782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-139780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
|---|