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BREAKING News: Defensive End Announces Retirement Day…

Five senior players left West Bromwich Albion on a permanent basis over the course of the summer transfer window. Albion are keeping tabs on a host of their young loanees, as well as Championship pair Karlan Grant and Taylor Gardner-Hickman, but they did bid farewell to a host of member of last season’s squad.

In all Albion brought in four new faces in the summer and said goodbye to 17 players at various levels of their squad. One player has remained in the Championship, one has made the step up to the Premier League and another has dropped into League One. Sadly, two more players have prematurely packed in football altogether

Former Celtic favourite Tom Rogic and ex Sheffield United defender Kean Bryan both called time on their playing careers when their contracts at The Hawthorns expired in the summer, the former in order to spend more time with his family and the latter on medical advice after a luckless 18 months in which he was sidelined. How are the other departed trio faring?

The Albion captain, a regular alongside Jayson Molumby in the Ireland squad, was the major departure of the summer when he joined promoted Burnley for £7m. Under legendary Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany, it looked on paper to be an excellent move for a centre half who had made a significant impact during his time in the Albion first team and with his best years still in front of him

Things haven’t quite gone according to plan as of yet, though – both for Burnley as a whole and O’Shea individually. While the Clarets are bottom of the top flight, with only four points to their name and a single victory in 12, O’Shea hasn’t always been guaranteed a place in the starting XI.

 

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