West Brom team news vs QPR with Lewis Cox

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00:00Carlos Corbijn has just concluded his first pre-match press conference of the new season.

00:06Very nice to be saying that ahead of Albion's lunchtime trip to QPR as the Championship

00:10curtain raise at tomorrow. Glad to be back. Not sure if Carlos Corbijn's glad to be fielding

00:16questions from us numerous times a week, but here we are. Good to speak to him on a variety

00:21of subjects, obviously, as Albion prepare to go to the capital. It's been a long, long

00:26summer, but we've made it. Albion are in better nick than they were seven days ago,

00:31obviously. Two new recruits this week to go down to Loftus Road have obviously bolstered

00:35the squad, Gianluca Frabatta and Lewis Dobbin. Expecting both to be involved tomorrow, Carlos

00:40has just told us, so that's good news. Start quickly on the injury front. Jed Wallace,

00:45skipper, obviously we know he's out with a calf problem. Not too bad. The diagnosis is

00:51about two to three weeks, Carlos Corbijn has said there on the skipper. He's had a scan

00:55this week and got to be looking at about a couple of weeks before he can be considered

01:00to be coming back. Grady Dingarn has been out for a little while, hasn't he, during

01:03pre-season. He's actually joining in with the team today and sort of starting his pre-season

01:08today really, but that won't be a four, six, seven pre-season absence for Grady. He'll

01:15be back around it hopefully within a couple of weeks of that. Albion are going to manage

01:19him, obviously start using him in games when they can, but he returns to full training,

01:24which is a boost. Similar story for Paddy McNair, the summer loan defensive signing,

01:29he's had a little pain in the knee, so can start being back in full training today. Obviously

01:35like Dingarn, he won't feature tomorrow, neither will Wallace, but McNair hopefully just a

01:40couple of weeks away from adding that versatility to the squad as well. That aside, Devante

01:45Cole will feature tomorrow, probably as a substitute I would guess, but he wasn't involved

01:49against Blues last week, was he? And as I say, Frabatta and Dobbin, this week's new

01:53recruits, will be involved despite very minimal training with Albion this week. But look,

01:58they've got a couple more in and that's the most important thing. Carlos Corbijn's overall

02:02message was fascinating on a new reality for Albion with these financial situations they're

02:07in, these challenges they're in. It was cloying, tight-lipped on transfer business, but very

02:13clear that we're still in the market. Albion still very much need some players to complete

02:17their business this summer.