Baggies snub bids for duo

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The Baggies knocked back Blues' initial £3million bid for the Senegal international and have now turned down a £5million City bid for the pair. Fulham have also made an undisclosed cash bid and offered two additional players for Koumas and Kamara, but West Brom have rejected that too.

Chairman Jeremy Peace said: "We are in our last year of parachute payments from the Premiership and our aim for the next season has to be promotion - it is the same aspiration as last season but it is not the last fling of the dice."

He added: "We have effectively got two years to get out of the Championship because we have got value in the squad and if we were to sell players, it would effectively give us an extra year beyond this season's parachute payment."