Albion will net £3.7million if record signing Borja Valero seals a permanent return to Real Mallorca – the Spanish club claim.

The midfielder, who the Baggies bought from Mallorca for £4.7million, is back on the island on a season-long loan after his ill-fated first year at the Hawthorns.

New Mallorca owner Javier Marti has claimed the La Liga side have an option to buy Valero at the end of the season for four million Euros.

Valero’s agent recently told the Express & Star that his client would relish a return to England, if Albion won promotion back to the Premier League.

But Marti’s takeover of Mallorca makes a permanent return more likely and the new boss claims Valero is keen to stay.

Marti said: “Borja Valero is a midfielder with a wonderful talent, who has also gained weight and physical presence the year he spent in the Premier League with West Bromwich Albion, but the team went down to the second division.

“I talked to him personally and with his wife – the truth is they wanted to go home. The day the market closed I got them to arrive on loan, with an option to buy about four million.”