WBA at risk of missing out on Matt Clarke

West Bromwich Albion ended their earlier Championship season with a reasonably respectable defensive report, because the Baggies solely conceded 45 objectives of their 46 league video games.

One participant specifically who performed a giant half for Albion on the again is Matt Clarke.

Signed on a season-long deal from Premier League membership Brighton & Hove Albion this time final summer time, the £2.7m-rated centre-back ended up making 33 Championship appearances for West Brom.

Now that his mortgage deal has ended, it appears as if Steve Bruce’s facet could have been dealt a blow to their probabilities of seeing the participant don a Baggies shirt as soon as once more.

What’s the information?

With earlier reports claiming that the Baggies could be eager to regain the defender once more for subsequent season, Brighton supervisor Graham Potter was not too long ago requested whether or not Clarke could be staying on the south coast membership for subsequent season or head out elsewhere.

The Seagulls boss said: “We’ll see. He is a superb lad, Matt, we like him lots. He has had a mortgage journey after which it’s about seeing the subsequent step is with us or carrying on that journey out. However to this point he has carried out himself very well, skilled properly, performed the primary 45 minutes [against Union], he’ll come to Portugal with us and we are going to maintain assessing him in our personal surroundings.”

Dangerous information for West Brom

In his 33 appearances for West Brom final time period, the 25-year-old made extra interceptions (60) than some other Baggies participant, together with successful 33 tackles and posting the second-highest common for clearances per sport (3.1) within the squad.

His total performances earned him a strong season score of 6.97/10, making him the third-highest rated participant on the membership in accordance with WhoScored. These figures would illustrate why Brighton’s pathway growth supervisor David Weir previously hailed Clarke as being “very adept at Championship stage”.

Would you be glad to see Matt Clarke return to West Brom?

With all this in thoughts, it’s straightforward to see why West Brom could be eager on bringing the 25-year-old again to The Hawthorns.

Nevertheless, now that Potter has hinted that the participant might stay at Brighton this summer time, this is able to certainly be dangerous information for the Baggies and their probabilities of signing Clarke once more, particularly if the Seagulls supervisor decides that he desires the defender to be a daily determine on the Amex Stadium shifting ahead.

Trying forward, it appears as if one of the best factor West Brom can hope for is to see Brighton give the inexperienced mild for the centre-back to go away the Sussex membership this summer time in order that they will pounce on securing one other deal for him at The Hawthorns.

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