Remar McNeil

Striker - West Bromwich Albion
18 Feb 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Remar McNeil

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The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Aune Heggebø breaks Sheffield United hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Aune Heggebø scored in the 88th minute, Sheffield United had already begun thinking about the journey home, and West Bromwich Albion took the lot.

Player ratings

A brace, and Aune Heggebø takes the afternoon — 8.87

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aune Heggebø provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Real improvement from Remar McNeil at West Bromwich Albion

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Remar McNeil is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A row about effort at West Bromwich Albion

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Chris Mepham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

West Bromwich Albion find a way past Sheffield United

Sheffield United made West Bromwich Albion work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Ángel Cardozo Lucena in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at West Bromwich Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Layton Love wants to come home

“I did not go to Wycombe Wanderers to sit and watch. I want to come back to West Bromwich Albion and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

The dugout

West Bromwich Albion pick somebody else ahead of Max O'Leary

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Daryl Dike

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Alex Mowatt

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alex Mowatt will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around West Bromwich Albion the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

5 matches without a win for West Bromwich Albion

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around West Bromwich Albion are no longer polite ones.

Match

5 matches without a goal for West Bromwich Albion

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Remar McNeil is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

A bad afternoon for West Bromwich Albion against Queens Park Rangers

0‑1 to Queens Park Rangers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Daryl Dike signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daryl Dike commits to West Bromwich Albion for another 4 years.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Karlan Grant

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Charles Allen answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Tempers go at West Bromwich Albion

Miller McDonald 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.

In brief

58 Edition

The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Isaac Price’s move to Fulham falls through

The deal that would have taken Isaac Price to Fulham has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to West Bromwich Albion with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

The dugout

Daryl Dike: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” West Bromwich Albion have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Harry Whitwell 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.

Boardroom

West Bromwich Albion close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 25 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Nathan Collins raises the bar for West Bromwich Albion

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at West Bromwich Albion heard it as anything else.

Transfer targets

Nathan Asiimwe is a medical away from West Bromwich Albion

The deal with Charlton Athletic is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

West Bromwich Albion bid $380.0K for Paul Mullin

The offer went to Wrexham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Nathan Collins in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at West Bromwich Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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