Akeel Higgins

Attacking Midfielder (L) - West Bromwich Albion
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Akeel Higgins

4 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Isaac Price hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what West Bromwich Albion can pretend not to have heard.

Market

West Bromwich Albion turn down Burton Albion for Akeel Higgins

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

West Bromwich Albion rebuffed over Tarik Muharemović

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leeds United have kept their man, and West Bromwich Albion go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

West Bromwich Albion come up short against Swansea City

Swansea City left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at West Bromwich Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brayann Pereira is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Harry Scott to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Aune Heggebø scores his first for West Bromwich Albion

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

Match

No goals between West Bromwich Albion and Birmingham

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Birmingham will be the happier side with the point.

Squad

Aune Heggebø remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at West Bromwich Albion would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
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The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Layton Love turns Crawley Town down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad

Chris Mepham signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chris Mepham and West Bromwich Albion agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Brighton tell West Bromwich Albion: Costinha is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A falling-out at West Bromwich Albion

Brayann Pereira and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

10 new faces, and West Bromwich Albion are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Chris Mepham knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Chris Mepham trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

No place for Richarlison in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation West Bromwich Albion are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

36 months and counting on Brayann Pereira

Still no offer on the table, and Brayann Pereira’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Market

Josh Dasilva arrives on loan

West Bromwich Albion have taken Josh Dasilva on loan from Brentford — cover where cover was needed.

In brief