If he has put on 8lbs, he's not training correctly, and he's not living correctly. Any issue of personal fitness should fall solely at his door.

Albion pay him very good money to play for them, and the least he can do is keep himself in tip-top condition so that when he is called upon, he's ready.

In our day, your wages were halved if you weren't in the first team.

But he's getting paid a fantastic amount of money whether he's running about the pitch or sitting on his backside.

In my opinion, the quicker we get rid of him, the better. It's obvious that his relationship with the club is now beyond repair and his attitude to his fitness proves how little he cares.

I can't see him returning from this, even if the new chairman is trying to build bridges. Ideally, we'd sell him in January, buy a replacement striker with the money, and move on from the whole sorry saga.

But that is probably unlikely now. It looks like he's going to coast through the rest of the season on the fringes of the team before leaving on a free transfer next summer.

Nobody is going to care too much when he does. There must be an element of arrogance for him to get so out of shape, an assumption that he'll still get a move whatever happens this season.

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He's probably right. Even with these latest weight issues, there will still be a club willing to take a gamble on him because of what he's done in the past and the potential he still has.

But it won't be a club on the same level as Tottenham, who wanted him last year.

It will be a sideways move and a fresh start. I would be very surprised if he went to a club bigger than the Albion now.

No doubt the player would bite your hand off for that, because right now, his career is wasting away.

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Whoever is advising him is giving him the wrong idea of what it takes to make it as a professional footballer.

It's just sad that it's come to this.

And it's not as if the team are really missing him are they?

Saturday's match with Tottenham was another decent performance against a very good side who will challenge for the title this season.

They had the first half, but whatever Pulis said to them in the dressing room obviously worked, because we had a couple of chances after the break.

Before the game, every fan would have been happy with 1-1, and those late goals even themselves out over the course of the season anyway. We've already had one at Stoke.

The best thing was seeing Chris Brunt back on the pitch, and not playing at full-back either! He gives us a little bit more quality on the wing, now it's just about getting him match-fit.