Bartley underwent what was described as “minor surgery” to “clean” out his knee in late October 2024 and was expected to be back within four to six weeks.<\/p>\n
He had already missed six games when an injury to Ousmane Diakite in the warm-up before Albion’s game at Sunderland on 26 November led to then head coach Carlos Corberan asking Bartley whether he could step in.<\/p>\n
“At the time it was desperate need as we didn’t have any defenders fit,” Bartley said.<\/p>\n
“I’d only trained the day before and done half the session, and the plan was for me to train for a week to 10 days before getting any game time but we had an injury going into that game.<\/p>\n
“Then Ousmane got an injury in the warm-up and Carlos asked me if I could do 45 minutes and I said ‘yeah I’ll do my absolute best’.”<\/p>\n
Bartley managed to play the first half as the Baggies secured a point in a 0-0 draw at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n
But he said he was aware of issues in his knee for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n
“That probably took a little bit out of my knee coming back that early and for the rest of the season I was more or less playing games and training very minimally and just trying to manage the swelling in my knee,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bartley underwent what was described as “minor surgery” to “clean” out his knee in late October 2024 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-182202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}