Former West Brom loanee makes third move in less than 12 months having left English football behind

A former West Brom loanee who featured a number of times last season has made his third move in just over 12 months.

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Mason Holgate returned to Albion for a second loan spell last summer - and went on to play 27 times for the club and scored one goal.

It came five years after his first loan spell - with Holgate part of the Albion side that reached the Championship play-off semi-finals.

He spent last season with Albion as his contract ended at Everton.

He was linked with a move to another English club - but decided to leave the UK behind and head to Qatar where he signed for Al-Gharafa in the Doha Bank Stars League.

Now he seems to be on the move yet again.

Having spent the first half of the season with his new club - he has now made another move as he joins strugglers Al-Sailiya on loan for the rest of the season.

Holgate opened up on why he turned his back on English football and looked back on his Albion loan spell - in an interview with TalkSport earlier this season.

He said: "Going through the last few years at Everton, I had a bit of a difficult time going on loans and stuff and not really feeling at home anywhere,.

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Mason Holgate in action for Albion last season (Photo by Adam Fradgley/West Bromwich Albion FC via Getty Images)

“When you're in England, that comes with a lot of pressure.

“I was going on loan to Championship clubs and off the back of not really having pre-seasons at Everton and in and around with the younger set up and then going straight into games in the Championship, not starting off in a great way as I'd thought.

“I just felt a little bit, I'd call it probably a little bit fatigued mentally, just a bit exhausted with it, because I just felt like I was being judged fair enough, as rightly as you should.

“I was being judged off of a different expectation, I felt like, to everybody else who was playing.

“For example, obviously, I'm a defender - if we get beat, I felt like everybody thought it was my fault all the time.

“I think looking back on it now, that was definitely a privilege and something that I miss 100 per cent with the fans being so passionate in England and stuff like that.

“At the time, it just felt like after like two, three years of that happening, it just felt like I kind of needed to reset from that."