Steve Bruce makes Andy Carroll plea and issues West Brom fitness update

A round-up of the latest West Bromwich Albion headlines from BirminghamLive on Saturday, February 26, 2022.

Former West Bromwich Albion midfielder Robert Snodgrass has joined fellow Championship side Luton Town until the end of the season.

Snodgrass left Albion by mutual consent last month after just 12 months at the Hawthorns.

It's understood that a disagreement with then-head coach Valerien Ismael led to the veteran midfielder being frozen out in November.

The former Scotland international, after featuring in one of the first 12 matches of the season, started four out of the next five matches across late October and November.

Despite playing the full 90 minutes in the last four of that streak, Snodgrass did not make another matchday squad.

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Romaine Sawyers faces an uncertain few months between now and the end of the season.

The West Bromwich Albion midfielder, who is spending this season on loan at Championship rivals Stoke City, sees his three-year contract expire in the summer, although the club do have the option to extend the boyhood Baggie’s stay by a further year.

Last summer, you’d have imagined that Sawyers had played his last game for Albion. Cast out into the cold by Sam Allardyce, he was the antithesis of an archetypal Valerien Ismael midfielder, too.

At Stoke he has since felt the love again, of Michael O’Neill who utilised him on a weekly basis until he suffered an infuriating quad injury before Christmas which has ruled him out of action ever since.

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West Bromwich Albion must do more to assist Andy Carroll as their goalscoring challenge is laid bare.

The Baggies avoided what would’ve been the longest run of matches in their history without a goal when Jayson Molumby found