{"id":68354,"date":"2025-08-15T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68354\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:22:07","slug":"west-brom-complete-signing-of-birmingham-city-captain-krystian-bielik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68354\/","title":{"rendered":"West Brom complete signing of Birmingham City captain Krystian Bielik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bielik, 27, has agreed a three-year contact and checks into The Hawthorns for a fee reported to be in excess of \u00a31million.<\/p>\n<p>The Poland international, who is most at home in the centre of defence but can play in defensive midfield, becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/?callback=in&amp;code=YJIYOGNLZDETMTFLYS0ZOGE0LTGXM2UTODZHNTMZYJC5OGQZ&amp;state=f765aaea0750499bae65afa214e31ed7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albion&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>fourth new signing of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>He offers important competition and cover following the imminent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/08\/14\/wrexham-v-west-brom-lewis-cox-match-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sale of star defender Torbjorn Heggem<\/a> to Bologna for a deal worth up to \u00a310m.<\/p>\n<p>Bielik joins central defensive options including Nat Phillips and George Campbell &#8211; two other summer recruits &#8211; and academy graduate Caleb Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Mason&#8217;s Albion are also hopeful of completing a season-long loan move for Manchester United midfield prospect Toby Collyer.<\/p>\n<p>Mason told the press at Thursday&#8217;s pre-Wrexham press conference he was confident Albion would end the summer transfer window with a squad<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/sport\/football\/west-bromwich-albion\/2025\/08\/14\/ryan-mason-confident-on-west-brom-transfer-business-amid-torbjorn-heggem-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> capable of being competitive<\/a> in the Championship this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bielik, 27, has agreed a three-year contact and checks into The Hawthorns for a fee reported to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,217,101,56,54,55,29406],"class_list":["post-68354","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\/68354","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=68354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}