The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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 targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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 dugout10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Josh Dasilva arrives on loan
West Bromwich Albion have taken Josh Dasilva on loan from Brentford — cover where cover was needed.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between West Bromwich Albion and Akeel Higgins
- Looking ahead West Bromwich Albion travel to Blackburn Rovers