The West Bromwich Albion Sentinel
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jed Wallace 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Karlan Grant
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karlan Grant, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nat Phillips is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Josh Maja goes back to face Stoke City
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Josh Maja’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and West Bromwich Albion needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Josh Maja 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 Josh Maja trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ousmane Diakité has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ousmane Diakité has written the date down.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Josh Griffiths question follows West Bromwich Albion around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Josh Griffiths’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market16 Nov 2026
Aune Heggebø has been watched
Newcastle United had somebody in the stand with a notebook, and he was not there for the pies. Watching is free; the next step is not.
In brief
- Loan watch Layton Love first choice at Oldham Athletic
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Stoke City
- Squad Callum Styles makes the division’s eleven — 6.86