{"id":418720,"date":"2026-02-10T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418720\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:41:08","slug":"boss-eric-ramsay-confirms-west-brom-stance-on-free-transfer-market-after-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418720\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss Eric Ramsay confirms West Brom stance on free transfer market after deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lowly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baggies\u00a0<\/a>tried to add more to their squad during the final hours of the transfer window last week but were only able to bring in youthful loans.<\/p>\n<p>Two senior options &#8211; back-up goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith and Villa loan winger Samuel Iling-Junior &#8211; departed The Hawthorns, allowing some flexibility from a financial perspective and space to fill in Ramsay&#8217;s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Albion recruited two teenage loanees, the untested duo Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba and Hindolo Mustapha, and head coach Ramsay admitted more experience would be ideal as he referenced possible free transfer recruits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes of course, I don&#8217;t think any head coach would sit here and say anything different to that,&#8221; Ramsay said when asked if he desired more experience in the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lowly Baggies\u00a0tried to add more to their squad during the final hours of the transfer window last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,217,101,56,54,55,29406],"class_list":["post-418720","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\/418720","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=418720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}