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The Sun
20-05-2025
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- The Sun
West Brom release FOURTEEN players including ex-Chelsea and Arsenal stars after collapsing at end of Championship season
WEST BROM have released fourteen players following their catastrophic collapse in the Championship. The Baggies saw their promotion dreams fall off a cliff after the arrival of manager Tony Mowbray in January. 4 4 West Brom had been flying high in sixth place when boss Carlos Coberan was replaced by Tony Mowbray following the Spaniard's move to La Liga giants Valencia. But after Mowbray managed just five wins in 18 games, West Brom fell out of contention and the 61-year-old was sacked. Baggies captain Jed Wallace slammed the second-half meltdown as "unacceptable" and claimed the players hadn't been good enough. He told the BBC: "At times like this you have to look at yourself - as a group of players you have to look at yourself and say how many of us have had a good season? I know I certainly haven't." Now the club seems to have taken a similar stance after releasing FOURTEEN first team stars on their retained list. Those names include former Chelsea youngster John Swift and ex-Arsenal hopeful Semi Ajayi. Swift, 29, leaves West Brom after making over 125 appearances for the club since his switch from Reading in 2022. While 38-time Nigeria international Ajayi, who spent two years with Arsenal between 2013 and 2015, leaves after lining up for West Brom 177 times. 4 4 Joining them on the list of released players is former West Ham ace Grady Diangana, whose 2020 switch to West Brom cost the club a reported £18MILLION. A host of youngsters such as Fenton Heard, Josh Shaw and Reece Hall have all been let go too. West Brom's Kyle Bartley sparks mass brawl at final whistle v Sheff Weds for shoving his arm into rival's face West Brom will also lose three top loan stars in Mason Holgate, Adam Armstrong and Will Lankshear. The trio are all set to return to their parent clubs of Everton, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur for next season.
BBC News
20-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Ajayi, Diangana and Swift released by Baggies
West Bromwich Albion have announced that Semi Ajayi, Grady Diangana and John Swift, who have over 500 club appearances between them, will all be leaving the club at the end of their departures mean the end of six-year stays for Nigeria defender Ajayi and DR Congo midfielder Diangana, who both played a part in promotion to the Premier League in 2019-20 as well as the campaign in the top flight that made 177 appearances after signing from Rotherham United in 2019, while Diangana initially arrived on loan in the same summer and later signed permanently, going on to play 202 games and score 26 leaves three years after joining the club from Reading and making 126 appearances. He made an instant impact, scoring the equaliser at Middlesbrough in his first start for the club in made just 15 Championship appearances this season after two lengthy spells out with hamstring has also been on the fringes this season, most of his appearances coming as a substitute, while Swift has started fewer than half of their league games in the campaign just the list of academy players given new deals is 21-year-old Reyes Cleary, who had loan spells at Walsall and Hartlepool United last season.
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Pick of the stats: West Bromwich Albion v Queens Park Rangers
West Bromwich Albion will seek to consolidate their Championship play-off spot as they host Queens Park Rangers on Saturday (15:00 GMT).The sixth-placed Baggies are unbeaten in three games but there are four sides below them within three points with 11 league games back-to-back defeats, QPR are now eight points behind Albion in 14th and have lost their past three away games in Bromwich Albion have lost just one of their past 11 league games against QPR (W7 D3), scoring 2.4 goals per match on average across that century, QPR have won just one of their 12 away league games against West Brom (D4 L7). That run includes a 7-1 defeat in August 2018 at the Bromwich Albion have won six of their past eight home league matches (D1 L1) and haven't lost any of their last 17 Championship home games against a side from London (W5 D12) since a 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace in September have lost five of their past seven league games (W2), losing each of their last three on the road. They last had a longer losing run on their travels between February and April Brom's John Swift has had a hand in a goal in each of his last two Championship games (1 goal, 1 assist). He hasn't done so in three in a row since September/October 2023.
