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BBC News
10-08-2025
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'Pleasing day' for Mason as Baggies start with win
Ryan Mason could reflect on a 'pleasing day' to start the Championship season as West Bromwich Albion head his first competitive game as a permanent boss, Mason watched the Baggies edge past Blackburn Rovers at The has had two interims spells in charge of Tottenham but now he is tasked with pushing for promotion with Albion. "The most important thing was to start the season at home with a win and we've done that in a good manner with a clean sheet, so it's a pleasing day," he told BBC WM."It's nowhere near the end product, we're literally six weeks into something but the thing we can guarantee is a togetherness, a willingness to fight for each other and we saw that and, more importantly, we felt that."We were good value for the win in my opinion and probably could and should have scored another to make it a little bit easier."
BBC News
08-08-2025
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Mason on Bartley future and Maja update
West Bromwich Albion boss Ryan Mason said that newly retired Kyle Bartley will "hopefully" still have a future with the defender announced his retirement on Friday after struggling with a knee injury."He's been incredible for this football club, on the pitch and off it. He's a real leader, a real man," Mason told BBC Radio WM."He's got a great club here that are with him and support him and are going to be on this next chapter with him. Hopefully, he can still add something to this club."Mason also confirmed that striker Josh Maja is fit and available for selection - though it is not a given the Nigeria international will feature in Saturday's match at home to Blackburn Rovers (15:00 BST)."We know Josh's situation. He had a very long time out," Mason added."We are just trying to make sure we can get him to a point where he can help us throughout the season."
BBC News
11-07-2025
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Austria trip provides Albion with plenty of positives
It's the final full day in Burgenland for Albion's players and staff and they've rounded off a productive pre-season training camp with a 1-1 draw against Ukrainian champions Dynamo game was played at the home of SC Bad Tatzmannsdorf, who play in the fourth tier of Austrian football. You can't call it a stadium as there was perhaps only around 100 seats, with everyone else crammed under the clubhouse roof when the rain came down in the second pitch lies at the bottom of the slope from the Baggies' base next to a walking track and while this match wasn't quite played at walking pace, unlike a Mozart masterpiece, it also wasn't a classic. Pre-season encounters never are to be fair but there were plenty of positives. Mikey Johnston, who just days ago was close to moving to Brazil, came on at half-time for Tom Fellows and crossed the ball in from the right for summer signing Nat Phillips to head home the Baggies goal from close played in a 4-4-1-1 formation and looked comfortable in possession. It was interesting to see some of the patterns of play we witnessed on the training field earlier this week being played out in the game and head coach Ryan Mason told me afterwards he was pleased with week will also have been about team bonding, particularly for new team-mates and it would have given Mason the chance to get to know his players better. We witnessed the camaraderie as members of the team gathered to play cards in the hotel foyer during a break from training earlier in the week, while new striker Aune Heggebo, who wasn't involved in the friendly, was filmed by the club playing table tennis with squad will now head from Burgenland back to the Black Country and then onto their next warm-up match against ex-Baggies boss Steve Bruce's Blackpool a week on can catch all of Steve Hermon's chats with the West Brom players in Austria on BBC Sounds.
