Craig Dawson is reportedly worth £20m but he made a mockery of this price-tag as Forest held West Bromwich Albion in the Championship on Tuesday.
Craig Dawson had the chance to make a real statement on Tuesday night as West Bromwich Albion hosted Nottingham Forest.
Starting in his favoured centre-back position, and without Ahmed Hegazi alongside him, Dawson will have been hoping to prove himself as the best defender available to manager Darren Moore.
But did he make the right impression? Not exactly.
Dawson has spent much of his West Brom career playing at right-back and he looked like a square peg in a round hole in the centre when Forest came to The Hawthorns.
It was his misplaced pass that paved the way for Lewis Grabban’s strike, while he struggled to deal with the pace and movement of Forest’s attackers throughout the thrilling 2-2 draw.
On Tuesday night’s evidence, reports from The Express and Star that West Brom refused to sell Dawson in the summer after demanding an eye-watering £20 million look remarkable. Dawson barely looked like a £2 million defender against Martin O’Neill’s Nottingham Forest.
As the West Brom fans have pointed out, his weaknesses were brutally exposed in midweek.
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