West Brom report back to training next week lifted by the news that playmaker Filipe Teixeira is on course for his first taste of Premiership football.
Teixeira hasn’t played since suffering cruciate ligament damage to his left knee in March’s 3-0 win over Plymouth.
The Portuguese player has conducted his recovery with the help of the physio and doctor at his former club Academica de Coimbra following an operation in his homeland and is now back on his feet doing light jogging and strength work.
And Teixeira will return to England next week to continue his rehabilitation with the Baggies’ medical staff when Tony Mowbray’s squad reassembles to start pre-season training on Thursday.
Teixeira is a popular figure in the dressing room and his team-mates dedicated their promotion-clinching performance to the stricken midfielder who quickly became a big hit among Albion fans.
Albion physio Richie Rawlins is refusing to put a date on the 27-year-old’s first-team return, but the autumn schedule will be in the player’s sights as Rawlins says: “I’ve been speaking to Filipe throughout the summer and he seems very optimistic and happy with how things are going.
“The operation was a success. The swelling has all gone down and the knee is a lot stronger.
“There have been no set-backs, he is progressing really well and everything is going according to plan.
“While the rest of the boys head off to Holland and Germany on pre-season tour he’ll be staying here and doing rehab work with us.”
And skipper Jonathan Greening and striker Roman Bednar will also be fit after hernia operations during the summer break.
The summer-long contract issue involving Kevin Phillips and Martin Albrechtsen is still rumbling on.
Phillips is expected to reach a compromise with chairman Jeremy Peace over his demand for a two-year deal, but Albrechtsen’s agent Michael Johansen admits the Danish defender is still in deadlock.
Asked if the out-of-contract defender was likely to be at The Hawthorns next season Johansen said: “I have no idea. There has been no progress and that’s all I have to say on the matter.”
55 Comments
Great news.
Great news part of the jigsaw WEVE GOT THE BEST MIDFIELD IN THE WORLD.LIFES GREAT BEING A BAGGIE.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT HE WAS QUALITY, THEN I SAW HIM PLAY..AND REALISED HE WAS JUST MEDIOCRE RUBBISH LIKE THE REST OF YOUR SQUAD. SHAME REALLY BUT I SUPPOSE YOU WILL HAVE TO PLAY HIM AT SOME POINT.
3.OH im sorry i forgot you couldnt even get play offs and you would kill to get him in your average championship team instead of that fat mess kightly.
Comon TEX!!!!!
if tex had played for portugal in the euros they would have won it the prem wont know wots hit um aye boing boing up the TEX WAY
3 you wish you had something that could come close to the skill of tex.
you dingles are so over ambitous every season its we will be fighting for a top 2 place and yet you have never went to the prem in a top 2 place.
you will all be chantting MM out by september when your mid table and the fickle side of you kicks in.
STAYING DOWN THE MM WAY
3,southbank i soldmeseatforapieandapint,,,youd love texy wouldnt ya cos he would run rings around your dingle mediocre defence,,enjoy your trip to doncaster,,,boingboing playing with the big boys,,,PLAYING IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
5.terry mate,,how are ya mate i bet the old nets been busy in it ,this sun certainly makes for good fishing,,tight lines…say hello to nicole and andrea for us see ya soon bud,,,,GONE FISHIN DINGLES JUST A WISHIN,,,IN YA GO…….LANDED IN STYLE OF COURSE,,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
Just about won a farcially poor Championship last year (Hull and Stoke!!). No new additions to the squad. What’s all this add up to? Going down the Mowbury way of course. In style, oh yeah. You are all so deluded it’s untrue. Will be loving the last 5 mins of MOTD this year, watching you lot getting hammered on a weekly basis…in style of course!
I would say that Tex is the player most suited to the Prem in our squad. With him coming back a month or so into the season it will be like having a new player in our team!!
9.what and your team of super flops.mediocre team & always will be!!!!boing boing see ya soon….
tEX is back.It will be like signing a new player.To go with all the other new signings LOL.
9. Villa Boy - If your going to comment on West Brom try researching your subject before making a fool out of yourself!!!
How many additions have the VILLA made?
ANSWER-NON!
Instead of making signings your manager is out
in Switzerland sunning himself.
And the only team who will be last on MOTD is
you as your team just play the long ball game,
A BIG HOOF!! UP TO INJURY PRONE CAREW,WHO
KNOCKS IT ON FOR YOUNG TO CHASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its great news about TEIXEIRA,and now with a
midfeild 4 of MORRISON/GREENING/KOREN/TEIXEIRA
we can really show the VILLA how you play
football.
PETROV(WHAT A GOOD PLAYER) NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COCKY COCA
BYE BYE BARRY
and LIGHT WEIGHT YOUNG!!!!!!!
WOW!! WHAT A GOOD MIDFEILD!!!!
SEE YOU IN THE PREM VILLA FANS!!!!
BOING BOING!!!!!
13 Great Big Boggie - I’m only seeing permanent signings of players there last year. You da fool (and 20,000 others who think you have a prayer)
14 - hmm do you think O’Neill might just be out there looking at players as well? But then seeing as you can’t even lure a League of Ireland player, I expect Mowbury gave the Euros a miss to leave the pick of the players to the big boys
5. If Tex had played for Portugal that would mean that 2,000 other decent Portuguese players had been injured. Dream on, he wouldn’t get in a Portuguese waiters eleven. But if that’s the standard that makes you happy, enjoy your time up to the kick-off.
villaboy,,,,villa think there one of the big boys but you aint,,never will be good enough to challenge the top four and ya know it.so dont get to cocky cos the baggies are coming to turn ya over just like the blues did ,,,PLAYING IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOH YES.
Welcome Villa Boy to the arid pages of the E&S in June. Not many of your ilk on here. Good of you to try to entertain us all with your harmless taunts. What do you think of Luke Moore? Why didn’t he hack it at your place?
18. Yeah you’ll be just like the blues how did their season finish. Even Derby gave Utd a decent game, I wonder what your one decent result will be?
Hello Jacko. What is your motivation today? Whats in it for you? Your prediction looks very unlikely.Do you usually exaggerate?
Hello Asa I feel confident in my predictions thankyou and how confident are you of the forthcomming season? I wonder why you ask such questions can you only manage a tentative grip on reality?
Jacko
We’re all thinking the same about you dirty dingles…can’t even see you scummers gettin in the top 10!
Villa Boys
Why the hell are you even on the E&S website? Yet agin no news other than your captain wanting to go and play for a big club so you have to come and check out whtas going on with Albion and Wolves. Get a life fool!
haha nice to see the baggies havin a go at euro bound villa! Good one hodgkinson! Tex is a good champ player but a below average prem squad member, which is better than luke moore i suppose! BOING BOING!
Nice to see in an earlier article Mowbray going for the young Irish talent. mmmm sounds familiar?
Hang on, is Mowbray running out of idea’s, it was only a matter of time before he copied McCarthy! All those times you poked at us dingles for going Irish!
COMING DOWN THE MOWBURY WAY OH YES OH YES.
How thick can the dingles be ,Our position,and the times we beat them,and their position ,not even making the play-offs should tell them something
Blimey, I thought the one or two daft Wulfies their supporters have to bear was bad enough but where on Earth did these Villa idiots come from?
Kindergarten? You are VERY fortunate to have Martin O’Neill as your manager, he performed miracles last season. If he loses his wand, you could be in DEEP trouble.
all you wolves fans talk absolute rubbish!
for god sake you are all pathetic!
just accept your not as good as albion!
we are in the prem! we won the league
U DID NOT!
Teixeira is awesome
a real talent
It will be good to have him back a player capable of playing in the prem and do well. These dumb wolfs and Seals really make me laugh. Was it Molineux were the home fans were fighting each other!!!! did they finish in the top 6????? As for Vila, big ground big fan base, what did they win? oh yes absolutely nothing.
14. you idiot,
villa are already a well established prem team, what a div you are.
Good to see the lad on the mend. I’m fairly sure you’ll get at least 3 points from the Villa but hope you can make the Hawthorns a fortress next season. Hope you are doing the deals needed as you will need 4 or 5 good signings to ensure survival. Really want to be up there with you and Villa the following season, then the big three from the West Midlands can progress as they ought. Good luck Baggies, some of we Wulfrunians will be shouting for you.
If the worst came to the worse and we didnt sign
any players,and if ALBRECHSTEN and PHILLIPS
wouldnt put pen to paper,then ive been thinking
about the team we could put out against ARSENAL,
and remember we wont have TEIXEIRA or KIM.
MICHAEL DANEK/CARL HOEFKENS/LEON BARNETT/
NEIL CLEMENT/PAUL ROBINSON/CHRIS BRUNT/
ROBERT KOREN/JONATHAN GREENING/JAMES MORRISON/
ROMAN BEDNAR/LUKE MOORE.
Its plain to see that we need more players,
so MR PEACE get your cheque book out and stop
being a scrooge.
I WANT TO SEE THE LIKES OF RADOSLAW MATUSIAK
SIGNED BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK,AND IF YOU SIGN
STEPHEN CLEMENCE THEN I WANT MY SEASON TICKET
MONEY BACK!
Maybe he can use phillip’s crutches WHEN HE@S NOT USING THEM BOINK PLUNK
Oh wow, what a quality player!! Another cheap player from the Peace school of not spending any money.
Oh well, you have Luke Moore and his fantastic goalscoring record. Oh sorry, he never scores any goals does he that’s why Villa sold him.
3.albion mediocre rubbish,if we are that bad and we won the league how bad,rubbish and dire are wolves
how many times do albion have to play you lot off the park and win every time for you dumb dingles to realise that albion are a lot better than you
wolves are a premier league one hit wonder played there once never to be seen there again.
Hey Villa boys, I live in Glasgow and I read the following article in a Glasgow newspaper.
‘Martin O’Neill is favourite to replace Gordon Strachan as manager of Celtic. Strachan is falling out of favour at Park Head and the Celtic board see their former manager as the ideal replacement, the bookies also make him a firm favourite to take over from Strachan.
He could also raid his former club Aston Villa for new signings as he looks to take a stranglehold on the SPL.’
BOING BOING!!!
my fantasy team
1,angelina jolie
2,meg ryan
3,halli berry
4,julia roberts
5,melanie griffiths
6lindsay lohan
7,lilly allen
8,jennifer lopez,
9,sandra bullock,
10, jackie,
11,andrea,
sub goalie, dawn french
aye boing boing
27, its a little soon to say Teixeira is awesome, he cut it in a very average championship last season so lets see if hes “awesome” in the premiership. Doubt it somehow, yes you won the league but it amounts to nothing unless you stay up. The lack of transfer activity and the fact you couldn’t even sign a Rochdale reject doesn’t exactly suggest that you’ll stay up easily this time. I hope you stay up because we need midlands clubs in the prem but if i was a tesco bag which fortunatley i ain’t, i would be concerned. If all the tesco bags were being honest, i reckon they would admit to being a little worried. Pathetic? Even the Villa fans are starting to take the mickey pal!
Teixeira?! LOL “if tex had played for portugal…” they wudn’t of got out the groups, Wacko. Championship player at best. Well, ‘least you’ll get 6 points from Hull…good luck!
5. i suppose if Phillips was in the England team we would have qualified for Euro 2008.
at least having Tex back will seem like having a new signing.
because you obviously aint interested in signing any new players still i suppose you will have plenty of money when you get relegated.
hey worcester how ya guin my old pal we,ll soon be sitting next to each other agen mate singing bedner is the king bdner is the king me n worcester sing this song bedner is the king aye boing boing say hi to jackie
BAGGIE BOY tell ya mom i love her xxxxxx
39,mick,the jealousy is becoming more evident by the day,and if super kev had played he,d have scored the one gerrard missed and weed have qualified aye boing boing up the MOWBURY WAY
best get the nets ready tel,,,could be a good day on the pond,,,fill ya boots son im on me way for the weigh in….PLAYIN IN THE PREM THE MOWBRAY WAY,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOH YES.
TEL,,make sure you got ya shades on son,i dont want ya missing any bites in this bright light,,,IN TERRYS NET YA GO,,IN STYLE OF COURSE,,OOOOOOOOOOOH YES.
37,LOFFINWILF,you,l have 2 watch match of the day to fond out wont ya,i am a little worried to be honest,worried that my passport wont be ready for when we in europe aye boing boing
37 Loffinwolf
You`re post is a contradiction, the fact that i disagree with the views you hold is irrelevant, at least they have been constructed intelligently.
Why then, have you deemed it necessary to revert to the childish “tesco bags” riposte,
it has completely ruined the credibility of your offering.
Anyone else.
Tiexeria, is an unproven quantity at premiership level, us Baggie fans honestly believe he can make the step up, many of you Wolves fans reckon he has no chance……….
on what do you base this notion ?
Michael Kightly is also unproven at the top level, however you are all confident that the step up is a mere formality in his case…….
on what do you base this notion ?
Is it just possible that the reason you think that is Tiexeria plays for us and Kightly plays for you ?
worcester hurry up mate that 17,jacko keeps trying to escape, aye boing boing
Loffin wolf, back off you fool.
The baggies are in the prem on merit because they have a manager who plays the right way, in style, something we can only dream about.
Don`t you see they want us to be jealous, so don`t rise to it, theyre just laughing at you.
MM out
hey loffin, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Interesting artcle in the telegraph…
About how they rate our chances of survival..
It finishes with this…
Expect to see:
‘West Brom in the top five after six games before they gradually sink to a respectable lower mid-table finish’
Just another opinion but good to see netural with positive view on our boys….
Can any Wolves fan give a solid arguement for suggesting that the Albion are sh1te considering the football lessons they have received the past few years and the fact we won the league, scoring the most goals and the Wolves not even getting in the play-offs? There was only 2 team in the division that didn;t score past us last season, have a guess who that was…….. I’d love a direct response to this from one of your lot
u albion fanss r stupid, just though ide remind u
46 i respect what you say and the tesco thing is a dig at the likes of Terry the thicko, Wiseguy and all the other Albion fans who write the crap that they write constantly on our pages to try and wind us up. Agree about Kightly, until they’ve played a sustained amount in the prem its impossible to say. I would honestly say the same if Teixeria played for us, what i wouldn’t do is claim that a player was awesome before he played there.
Loffinwolf
Thanks for the reply.
The Teixeria thing was not directly aimed at yourself, and i`m sure you know there are plenty of Wolves fans out there will say he is useless by virtue of who he plays for, and i am also sure you know regarding people winding up their rivals is not a one way street.
52. Learn to spell you dim wit…