West Bromwich Albion continued their spectacular pre-season with a 4-1 win over Shrewsbury on Saturday, with two objectives from new signing Jimmy Jay Morgan.
The Baggies bolstered their squad with the addition of the previous Chelsea attacking midfielder, and he has racked up three objectives and two assists in pre-season to date.
James Morrison shall be hoping that the previous Southampton teen, who left St. Mary’s to hitch Chelsea, would be the attacking spark that they lacked final time period, once they solely scored 48 objectives in 46 Championship video games.
Persevering with on the Southampton hyperlink, West Brom are nonetheless in search of a substitute for Tom Fellows, 12 months on from promoting him to the Saints for £10m.
West Brom nonetheless want their new Tom Fellows
The Baggies nonetheless want a substitute for the English winger as a result of their squad lacked creativity within the Championship within the 2025/26 marketing campaign, significantly down the appropriate flank.
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Most assists for West Brom in 25/26 Championship |
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|---|---|
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Participant |
Assists |
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Mikey Johnston |
9 |
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Aune Heggebo |
4 |
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Alex Mowatt |
4 |
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Callum Types |
3 |
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George Campbell |
2 |
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Danny Imray |
2 |
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Isaac Value |
2 |
Mikey Johnston, who performed on the left wing, was the one participant within the squad who supplied greater than 4 assists, while no gamers hit double figures within the division.
Danny Imray, who spent the second half of the season on mortgage from Crystal Palace, provided essentially the most creativity down the appropriate facet of the pitch, with two assists from right-back.
Not one of the Baggies gamers got here near providing the 14 assists that Fellows equipped for the membership within the 2024/25 Championship season, while he additionally assisted a aim in opposition to Wrexham in the beginning of final time period earlier than his transfer to the Saints went by means of.
The 23-year-old star then went on to help eight objectives in all competitions for Southampton final season, and is about to assist them compete for promotion within the upcoming marketing campaign.
West Brom and Southampton competing for a similar signing
Including creativity to the squad doesn’t have to only come from signing wingers, although, because the membership are a defender who has shades of Fellows.
Journalist Sacha Tavolieri studies that West Bromwich Albion and Southampton are battling it out for the signing of Rodez right-back Nolan Galves in the summertime switch window.
The reporter claims that each the Baggies and the Saints have agreed a switch price with the Ligue 2 facet, though the precise price has not been disclosed.
Tavolieri provides that the participant is but to decide on which staff he would like to hitch, however a ‘definitive’ selection is predicted to come back within the coming hours.
Morrison should push to persuade the participant to select the Baggies as a result of he might arrive so as to add some much-needed artistic high quality to the facet down the appropriate flank.
While he’s not an out-and-out winger like Fellows, Galves is a right-sided participant who has the power to persistently create probabilities for his teammates on the prime finish of the pitch.
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25/26 Ligue 2 |
Nolan Galves |
Rank vs RBs |
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Possibilities created |
48 |
High 3% |
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Touches in opposition’s field |
52 |
High 7% |
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Profitable dribbles |
27 |
High 5% |
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Huge probabilities created |
10 |
High 5% |
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xA |
4.60 |
High 5% |
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Assists |
7 |
High 3% |
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Objectives |
0 |
Backside 1% |
His artistic output in Ligue 2 for Rodez within the 2025/26 marketing campaign exhibits that he could possibly be precisely what West Brom had been lacking within the Championship final time period.
He has the standard to get ahead and create objectives regularly down the appropriate flank, which is one thing that the Baggies supporters haven’t seen since Fellows was offered to Southampton.
In fact, that additionally implies that the Saints might have two extremely artistic threats down their proper flank in the event that they signal Galves to accomplice him with Fellows subsequent time period, closely strengthening their assault.
The 23-year-old defender doesn’t supply a lot of a aim risk, having failed to attain any league objectives final time period, however that was additionally the case for Fellows, who solely scored 4 instances within the 2024/25 marketing campaign and is but to attain for Southampton.
Just like the £10m winger, Galves is a superb dribbler and crosser, offering loads of pleasure down the appropriate wing, however he shouldn’t be anticipated to attain many objectives.
It’s now all the way down to the Baggies to make sure that the French full-back doesn’t select to make the transfer to St. Mary’s, as Fellows did, in order that they will lastly boast some creativity down the appropriate.
