West Brom have all but secured a play-off spot in the Championship.
The Baggies lost 2-1 to league leaders Leicester City on Saturday, with Jed Wallace scoring what turned out to be a consolation goal whilst acting as a makeshift striker.
Carlos Corberan‘s side were unlucky, with Leicester’s Hamza Choudhury remarkably making three goal-line clearances for the Foxes.
West Brom are currently fifth in the league with two games left to play.
Whilst they are level on points with Norwich City in sixth, they are six points ahead of Hull City in seventh and boast a significantly higher goal difference.
Given the turmoil off the pitch, a play-off place would be a fine achievement for Corberan.
However, a statistic has emerged which will concern West Brom fans should they not achieve promotion via the play-offs.
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Carlos Corberan’s West Brom compare badly in Championship statistic
Given the off-field situation, not many West Brom fans would have expected to see their side comfortably in the play-offs at this stage of the season.
You could therefore argue that they are very much overachieving.
However, whilst there is no doubting that Corberan is doing an excellent job, when you compare West Brom to other Championship clubs they do not fair particularly well in one statistic.
Transfermarkt have created a table which shows the cost of each goal for every team in England’s second tier, with this being based on each squad’s transfer value.
When this is applied to wins, as Birmingham World have done, this shows that West Brom have spent the 17th most amount of money per victory of any of the 24 Championship clubs this season.
With West Brom having a squad purchase value of £34.36 million and winning 20 league games so far this season, it works out that each victory has cost a staggering £1.71 million.
Corberan blameless in concerning statistic
Unsurprisingly, the four teams with the highest cost per win are the three relegated Premier League sides and fellow play-off dwellers Norwich City.
Leicester top the chart with a whopping £6.96 million per win.
Whilst West Brom’s spend per win is significant, manager Corberan cannot be blamed in any way for this.
That is because, as per Transfermarkt, the Spanish manager has not spent a single penny in transfer fees this season given the club’s perilous financial situation.
Instead, Corberan has had to rely on loan deals and free transfers, with the likes of Mikey Johnston and Josh Maja brought into the club.
Sales were also necessary to try and balance the books, with Dara O’Shea and Taylor Gardner-Hickman being moved on last summer
Therefore, despite scoring high on the list of cost per win, it is difficult to deny that West Brom securing a play-off spot is a minor miracle.