Louis Brady

Goalkeeper - West Bromwich Albion U20
21 Oct 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Louis Brady

92 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The drought breaks for West Bromwich Albion

14 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Bristol City were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

The terraces

The mood at West Bromwich Albion has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Chastening afternoon for West Bromwich Albion

A 0‑3 beating by Cardiff City was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jeremie Frimpong

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

West Bromwich Albion finish in position 24

39 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

Louis Brady breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Chris Mepham wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at West Bromwich Albion hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

A falling-out at West Bromwich Albion

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

The terraces

West Bromwich Albion supporters have found a favourite in Claudio Echeverri

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Claudio Echeverri has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

Back issues
91 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

13 matches without a win for West Bromwich Albion

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around West Bromwich Albion are no longer polite ones.

Match

West Bromwich Albion are in real trouble now

Position 24, 36 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Isaac Price puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at West Bromwich Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A fracture rules Louis Brady out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason West Bromwich Albion will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Alex Mowatt has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around West Bromwich Albion they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

6 saves: Brandon Austin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Jed Wallace, 34, rolls back the years — 7.91

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Jeremie Frimpong was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words at West Bromwich Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chris Mepham 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.

In brief

90 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to West Bromwich Albion's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at West Bromwich Albion has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A fracture rules Louis Brady out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason West Bromwich Albion will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Daryl Dike 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

Nathan Collins wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at West Bromwich Albion hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tempers go at West Bromwich Albion

Nathan Collins was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at West Bromwich Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chris Mepham 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.

Match

Isaac Price’s goal not enough for West Bromwich Albion

Isaac Price scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Leicester City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Boardroom

West Bromwich Albion agree a free transfer for Harvey Rodgers

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The dugout

Max O'Leary gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

89 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for West Bromwich Albion

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

8 saves: Brandon Austin was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

44 days out for Louis Brady after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. West Bromwich Albion will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Antoñito Cordero, 21, steals the show — 7.85

Marked 7.85 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Isaac Price frozen out at West Bromwich Albion

This is not rotation. Isaac Price has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at West Bromwich Albion is pretending otherwise.

Market

Souleyman Mandey asks to leave West Bromwich Albion

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at West Bromwich Albion

Brandon Austin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

West Bromwich Albion lose Timothy Miller

56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Krystian Bielik gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief