The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel
Market11 Dec 2028
Krystian Bielik 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.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
Age has not caught Jed Wallace yet — 8.21
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market11 Dec 2028
West Bromwich Albion may not be able to give Joelinton what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Joelinton wants continental football; whether West Bromwich Albion can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market11 Dec 2028
Daryl Dike wants more than West Bromwich Albion are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Josh Griffiths
“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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
George Campbell falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Josh Griffiths reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad11 Dec 2028
West Bromwich Albion lose Robert Smith
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
Joelinton in the eights
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Home is on Faustino Barreto's mind
- Match Honours even between West Bromwich Albion and Millwall
- The dugout Soungoutou Magassa gets picked when it counts