West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Mowbray has ruled out an unnamed player from the clash with Sheffield Wednesday this Saturday lunchtime with illness, as he prepares to unleash new striker signings Adam Armstrong and Will Lankshear for the first time. Mowbray declined to identify the player in question, but Albion will be one player lighter when Mowbray names his squad.

Tammer Bany, the club's new signing who joined from Randers on deadline day, will require patience, too; the Danish playmaker arrived at the club's Walsall training ground on Friday, having flown in from Spain where he'd been at Randers' warm-weather pre-season training camp and will be granted a week or two to get up to speed in his new surroundings.

Elsewhere, Mowbray is eager to take a closer look at his fringe players in a competitive environment; Devante Cole and Gianluca Frabotta, neither of who have started a Championship match this season, are likely to be handed Premier League 2 minutes in the coming weeks in front of a watching Mowbray, along with recovering pair Daryl Dike and Semi Ajayi.

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"I've just had conversations with [director of medical] Tony Strudwick about Dike, you could say the same about Semi and the same for maybe Frabotta and Cole. When do they play? I'm asking," Mowbray reasoned. "I need to see all these players play. It's OK putting them in little boxes with drills. I'd like to see them all play in an under-21s game. You can only play three overage players.

"Dike has been out a fair while. I'm not sure it's right that he's trained for a couple of weeks to just stick him straight in the team. I would have more confidence watching them play. I've had the conversation with Semi. 'What about 45 minutes?' I'm coming to watch. Him having to react and deal with things.

"At all my clubs in the past - they play (for the youth team). If they are not getting games, then they play. They are here to play. So (they need to) want to play, show me, it's an opportunity to show me why you should be in our team."