West Brom dealt crushing Jed Wallace injury blow as ‘serious’ scan results emerge
West Brom have been dealt a crushing injury blow as Jed Wallace is expected to be sidelined for five to seven weeks, according to DOOD.
The Baggies insider claimed via his personal X account [8 August] that the 30-year-old’s scans have shown an injury “more serious” than originally thought.
It was thought that Wallace was in a race against time for West Brom’s opening match of the Championship campaign against QPR on Saturday 10 August, but that no longer looks to be the case.
“Scans have shown the injury is more serious than first thought. Out for roughly 5-7 weeks. Blow for us and Wallace,” DOOD wrote.
West Brom handed significant Jed Wallace injury blow
If the report is true, the Baggies and Carlos Corberan have just been handed yet another serious blow amidst a panic at The Hawthorns.
The club’s PSR situation has already seen the likes of Conor Townsend, Okay Yokuslu and Brandon Thomas-Asante exit ahead of the 30 August transfer deadline, with few concrete options to replace them.
Wallace was a mainstay in Corberan’s squad last term, playing 42 of the Baggies’ Championship matches, notching six goals and five assists in that time.
While Grady Diangana and Thomas-Asante both secured more goal contributions than the 30-year-old winger, though only one of them remains at The Hawthorns now.
Corberan will certainly be calling on Diangana, John Swift and Tom Fellows to produce the goods in the final third, but even more so now after Wallace’s massive injury blow.
Not only is the former Millwall man needed in the attacking third of the pitch, but he is also a leader who can bring the team forward and rally behind his teammates when the going gets tough.
Everything seems to be falling out of place for the Baggies, rather than in, just at the wrong time. With the new Championship season starting on Saturday, they have been left with no time to prepare without him.
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