Great win for Spurs, do you have your sights set on Man City and second now then?
West Brom have some great fans, indeed. I live within 20ish minutes of West Brom, Wolves, Birmingham, Villa, Stoke, Port Vale etc.. The battle of the fans to be top dog in this area is always entertaining, especially as a neutral!
West Brom deserve to be where they are and their fans are certainly enjoying reminding everyone about it
I've not seen much of Essien in Spain, I catch the highlights but La Liga doesn't really interest me too much, good to hear he's doing well though! Who would I want to come? Well, in my opinion we are 3-4 years behind most teams in midfield, Ramires came 3 years ago and he was the last one in. It depends which way the club wanted to go, you don't have to spend big to fix it either. We just need players who play the way we need to, for the good of the team. Scouts should have a dozen young potential signings to address the need.
As an example teams like Southampton and Swansea are having great success and playing brilliant football, players like Schneiderlin and Ki are key to that and it shows you don't need to spend vast sums of money to transform the philosophy of the team.
I like Ramires, he is great at alot of things. His running and energy is something fans love to see. Whenever he plays though the two phrases you can guarentee to hear from the commentator are "unlucky there, he just showed too much of the ball to the defender" when dribbling, and "heavy first touch". Cech rolls the ball out to him to set things up and it bounces off him, he doesn't really have a first touch or passing ability. We shouldn't be expecting him to do these things, he has a different set of skills.