{"id":218694,"date":"2025-10-22T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:41:22","slug":"west-brom-1-2m-summer-signing-handed-full-debut-as-ryan-mason-hit-with-second-midfielder-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218694\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom \u00a31.2m summer signing handed full debut as Ryan Mason hit with second midfielder injury blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mason already confirmed that Toby Collyer was set to be missing &#8211; after being taken off in the victory over Preston on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>But Albion have been dealt another blow &#8211; with one of Mason&#8217;s midfield options also ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Molumby, who was on the bench on Saturday, is out of the squad due to injury &#8211; with Ousmane Diakite coming into the side in place of Collyer.<\/p>\n<p>It is just a second start of the season for Diakite &#8211; and it is a first start in an Albion shirt for summer signing Alfie Gilchrist.<\/p>\n<p>The defender signed for \u00a31.2m from Chelsea, having spent a season on loan at Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>He has had to wait for his chance &#8211; but he comes in at right back in place of George Campbell who has been slotting in on that side since the departure of Darnell Furlong.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, as expected, Josh Maja is replaced by Aune Heggebo &#8211; with the striker still building up to full fitness and not being risked with two starts in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Albion: Griffiths, Gilchrist, Mepham, Phillips, Styles, Mowatt, Diakite, Johnston, Price, Iling-Junior, Heggebo<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Wildsmith, Wallis, Taylor, Campbell, Deeming, Bostock, Maja, Dike, Grant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason already confirmed that Toby Collyer was set to be missing &#8211; after being taken off in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,217,101,56,54,55,29406],"class_list":["post-218694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-bromwich-albion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218694","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=218694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}