The 8 West Brom players set to leave the Hawthorns in 2026 | OneFootball

West Bromwich Albion have eight players out of contract at the end of the 2025-26 season. Here's a round-up of them and what might happen next.

West Bromwich Albion have a host of players falling out of contract at the end of the 2025-26 season.

It's been a fairly successful start to 2025-26 for West Bromwich Albion under new boss Ryan Mason.

But West Brom have a number of players falling out of contract with the club at the end of this season, and that leaves them with nine different dilemmas to answer.

There will be some that they want to keep on and may offer new contracts to, either during the season or at its end. There will be others who the club decide to just let go.

Much of the decision-making process over all of this may come down to which division they're playing in next season. Albion's squad requirements for a return to the Premier League for 2026-27 would be very different to what they'd need were they to remain in the Championship for another year.

Each of these decisions will, in their own ways, be a gamble. Players develop at different rates, while some could feel they're ready for new pastures, and others may receive offers from elsewhere throughout the remainder of this season which result in them running down their contracts, and with no interest in signing a new one.

Here's a list of those nine players, and what their positions might be by the end of this season - as per Transfermarkt.

Devante Cole

When Devante Cole signed for West Brom on a free transfer from Barnsley in 2024, he probably wasn't expecting to have such a disappointing 2024-25.

But Cole made just 14 appearances for West Brom last season without scoring a goal, and he hasn't got on the pitch for them so far this season.

In their opening three games of 25/26 in all competitions, he's appeared on the bench twice as an unused substitute, while he was left out of the matchday squad for their season-opening win at Wrexham.

He may get opportunities this season - two of the other strikers on this list have had horrible times with injuries - but it's not difficult to see how he could be considered a cost they can no longer afford and be allowed to leave next summer.

Jed Wallace

One of the more intriguing situations around the club next summer could be the position of captain Jed Wallace.

On the one hand, Wallace has been a dependable presence for West Brom since his transfer from Millwall in 2022 and has been their captain since 2023.

Wallace is a highly experienced Championship player, with almost 350 appearances in the division under his belt. But he also turns 32-years-old before the end of this season, and he's never played Premier League football.

Should Albion still be a Championship club come the end of this season, it may well be worth offering him another year, though at an estimated £25,000-a-week extending his contract wouldn't be inexpensive.

And as the club captain, it may be considered that he's earned a shot in the Premier League should they go up. With his level of experience, though, he'd be unlikely to be short of suitors should the club decide not to extend.

His contract expires in June next year.

Alex Mowatt

Mowatt followed former Albion manager Valerien Ismael from Barnsley to the Hawthorns in 2021, but while the manager is now a fading memory to Baggies fans, Mowatt remains at the club.

He agreed a contract extension in 2024, taking his current contract until next summer, and was a mainstay of their team last season, as well having played in all of their games this time around so far.

Like Jed Wallace, Mowatt has never played Premier League football, despite having over 400 league appearances to his name, but he's also a little bit younger than Wallace - he turns 31 next February - and he has an outstanding injury record, having only missed three League games in each of the last two seasons.

While the seven league goals he scored for them last season were also most welcome.

Another contract extension wouldn't be a surprise, even if West Brom ascend to the Premier League again.

Karlan Grant

Considering that West Brom paid a reported £15 million to Huddersfield for Grant in 2020, it's no surprise that he remains with the club five years on.

But Grant's time with the club hasn't been completely smooth.

He spent one season on loan with Cardiff City, and he has only managed to hit a double-figure goal tally once in his five years with the club, and that was during the 2021-22 season.

With there having been interest in him from elsewhere during the summer, it wouldn't be that surprising if he moved on before the end of this transfer window, while Albion can still pick up a fee for him.

His deal expires next summer.

Joe Wildsmith

Back-up goalkeeper Joe Wildsmith has found himself on the bench for West Brom so in the Championship so far this season, but he did start in their EFL Cup match against Derby and saved a penalty in the shootout, even though Derby ended up losing it 3-2.

But having signed for Albion from Derby in 2024, he was only able to make 10 Championship appearances for them last season and wasn't able to break into the first-team after the January transfer window despite the departure of Alex Palmer to Ipswich Town.

If Ryan Mason wants to keep him as back-up this season, it's unlikely that he'll be loaned out this season, but the stopper might find that he wants more game-time by next summer when his contract expires, if he's unable to make this season his breakthrough season at the Hawthorns.

Ousmane Diakité

Diakite's progress has been disrupted by mixed form and injury since he arrived from the Austrian club TVS Hartberg last summer.

But he ended 2024-25 with a run of games in the first team (he made 22 League appearances for them in total), and already featured in the early Championship exchanges this season, while he started in their EFL Cup defeat to Derby.

So, Mason has seen enough about him to give him chances on the pitch this season, and at 25-years-old he's reasonably aged.

His contract is estimated at a fairly reasonable £7,500-a-week by Capology, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see him offered another extension come the end of this season, although Albion do have the option to trigger a 12-month extension to his contract beyond next summer.

Josh Maja

There is no doubting Josh Maja's ability, but that isn't the issue when it comes to this particular player.

Maja has had serious injuries in three of his last four seasons, with the only one that he didn't being the 2022-23 season, which he spent on loan in Ligue 2 with Bordeaux.

But the dilemma that West Brom face is that when fit, Josh Maja scores goals. He scored 12 in 26 games for them last season, and if that sort of form could be leveraged over an entire season, the club would be falling over themselves to offer him a new contract.

He's made a brief substitute appearance in the EFL Cup this season, and should soon be back leading their front line.

If he can manage a full season and start scoring goals again, Albion might even have a bit of a fight on their hands to keep him next summer when his contract expires.

Daryl Dike

Josh Maja has had his injury problems, but even his injury record palls in comparison with that of American striker Daryl Dike.

He's been limited to just over 40 appearances in three-and-a-half years since joining the club from Barnsley in January 2022, 25 of which - along with 7 goals - came in the 2022-23 season.

With his earnings estimated at over £32,000-a-week, he's estimated to be on almost twice Maja's £17,000-a-week, and were West Brom to choose to keep one of these two and move the other on, it would likely be Dike that would go.

Another injury hasn't helped in this respect. Dike damaged his thigh at the start of August, and having already suffered two Achilles injuries in previous seasons and as the club's highest earner, it's difficult to see him staying at the club beyond the end of this season when his deal expires.