Carlos Corberan reveals "love" and "develop" claim for West Brom's Callum Styles

Styles was one of the Baggies' summer buys as the versatile player was brought in for an undisclosed fee on a four-year deal from League One outfit Barnsley.

The Hungary international, who sees himself as a midfielder but has predominantly been used at left-back, had to bide his time for regular Albion action but has taken his chances in recent weeks as Corberan noted improvement with every performance.

"I love to have Styles with me," Corberan told the Express & Star. "We bring him in to develop him as a left-back because I know he has played as a wing-back, but Styles is a midfielder that someone has changed his position.

"His mentality is a midfielder. He is a player that loves to play inside in attack. He understands the game so you can put him to defend wherever you want.

"We bring him in the club to be inverted or an inside left-back. To defend more as a left-back but to attack more inside. Not because I want to - because this is what he is."

Styles has the nod over fellow left-back summer acquisition Gianluca Frabotta in Corberan's side of late. Both were behind Torbjorn Heggem in the pecking order earlier in the campaign, though the Norwegian has now shuffled across into the heart of defence.

Bury-born Styles is no stranger to the Championship having sampled the division with Barnsley and loan clubs Sunderland and Millwall and has made himself popular with Baggies supporters with his displays over the last six weeks.

Corberan boosted his ranks in that department over the summer with the departure of long-serving left-back Conor Townsend to Premier League new boys Ipswich and the versatile Adam Reach, who left on a free transfer.

The head coach added: "If I compare Styles with Townsend, Townsend is a straight left-back, a wide left-back in attack, left-back in defence.

"Styles is different, an inside left-back in attack and can develop at left-back. For me he has conditions to be a left-back. That's why even if he didn't play many minutes, knowing we wanted to create a squad for a line of four, we brought him in. We thought he had the conditions to grow in this position. Every game he has kept growing, that's why I'm very happy to have him with us."