{"id":520476,"date":"2025-10-22T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520476\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:37:15","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.europesays.com\/uk\/520476\/","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":520477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,93,79,16,15,2785],"class_list":{"0":"post-520476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-west-bromwich-albion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115419745160627597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}