Matt Maher: So who’s actually running the show at West Brom?
“I am not a quitter,” remarked Albion chief executive Ron Gourlay in January.
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Yet just two months later, as it emerged this week, that is exactly what Gourlay was doing.
Why? For now we can only surmise. The five-paragraph statement announcing his impending exit – containing no explanation and no words from the soon-to-be former CEO – did not smack of a particularly harmonious divorce.
It’s impossible not to wonder whether Gourlay simply grew tired of having to front up for the failings of absentee owner Guochuan Lai.