West Brom face a tricky summer after they failed to win promotion straight back to the Premier League at the first time of asking.

The Baggies were beaten by Aston Villa in the play-off semi-finals back in May and despite appointing Slaven Bilic as their new boss, confidence remains low.

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The Croatian has been told that he will need to slash the wage bill of the first team, meaning that a host of important players may well be on their way out of the club.

And some more slightly worrying news when the Express and Star reported on Tuesday morning that the club's owner, Guochuan Lai, had been unable to pay the club's £4.1million debt he inherited on taking over the club.

This comes from Chinese laws relating to investing in overseas companies.

It means that it is very unlikely that the Baggies will be given any extra financial injection for the summer window aside from the Premier League parachute payments.