Corberan must now ditch West Brom star who earns even more than Maja

West Bromwich Albion will hope they will get again to profitable methods within the Championship this coming Sunday after falling to a slender 2-1 loss to Watford final day out.

Successful their subsequent conflict versus Bristol Metropolis on the Hawthorns would set them up properly for 2 away days in fast succession earlier than 2024 is out, with a tricky tie in opposition to table-toppers Sheffield United closing out the busy 12 months.

Even because the fixtures come thick and quick round this bumper Christmas interval, Carlos Corberan will possible preserve deciding on Josh Maja to guide the road, who has greater than rotated his Baggies profession this marketing campaign.

Maja’s heroics at West Brom

Though he has fired blanks throughout his final 5 video games within the tough league, the Spaniard has continued to pick the previous Sunderland man, figuring out he can rifle the again of the online with an effort within the blink of an eye fixed.

In spite of everything, the scientific 25-year-old has solely averaged a mere 26 touches per Championship conflict this season, however nonetheless has a really spectacular objective haul of ten from 20 games to boast about.

Whilst his output in entrance of objective has dried up of late, he nonetheless managed to select up an help in direction of the beginning of the month when the Baggies valiantly rescued a share of the factors versus the Blades, having linked up with help king Tom Fellows properly to degree the sport at 2-2.

While Maja’s area within the facet is understandably concrete, the identical can’t be mentioned for Grady Diangana anymore, who had began to fall method down Corberan’s pecking order even earlier than his current harm troubles popped up.

Diangana’s future at West Brom

Along with his contract up subsequent summer time, the time may quickly be coming for West Brom to have a dialog with Diangana about his future on the second-tier outfit.

Simply glancing at his excessive wage in Corberan’s camp is sufficient to suppose a parting of the methods will quickly occur, with the Congolese winger incomes a steep £20.3k-per-week pay packet, which makes him a better earner than even Maja who rakes in a surprisingly lesser £17k-per-week wage.

No less than with Maja, it has been well-documented how glorious he is been this season, whereas Diangana was struggling even earlier than harm catastrophe struck for him in November.

Final season within the Championship, the ex-West Ham United attacker picked up a sublime seven goals and eight assists, however he has nothing to point out for his efforts throughout a dismal 2024/25 marketing campaign up to now.

Wanting on the desk above, Diangana has immediately change into a reserve determine for the Baggies, with no objectives and 0 assists to shout about when he’s unleashed into the motion by Corberan.

In fact, the skilled ahead hasn’t been helped by his luck with accidents – having now been absent since West Brom’s journey to Hull Metropolis final month – however his lack of sport time hasn’t actually impacted his facet of their pursuit of promotion.

As soon as dazzling his adoring set of supporters with showboat-laden shows, with one among his West Brom teammates, Jed Wallace, even labelling him as “unbelievable” up to now, Corberan simply is not that reliant on the 26-year-old to be a vibrant spark anymore, while you additionally contemplate he has Fellows and Mikey Johnston to name on down the channels.

This January may very well be the right alternative for West Brom to chop ties with their loyal servant, subsequently, earlier than he’s allowed to depart for nothing, managing to maybe recoup a charge earlier than going full steam forward to try to return to the Premier League.

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