Overview
- West Brom’s statement confirmed assistant Nigel Gibbs and first-team coach/head of performance Sam Pooley have also left The Hawthorns.
- Monday’s stoppage-time 2-1 loss at Leicester marked a 10th consecutive away league defeat, equalling a run from 1926/27; the team is seven points above the drop zone and 10 off the play-offs.
- First-team coach James Morrison has been appointed interim and will lead the side at Swansea in Sunday’s FA Cup tie before a home league game against Middlesbrough.
- Mason, hired in June 2025 on a three-year deal, lasted seven months and 27 matches, winning nine after an initial surge of three wins and a draw from his first four league games.
- This is the owners’ second head-coach dismissal in nine months after Tony Mowbray’s exit, and the club says a recruitment process is under way, with media and bookmakers linking candidates such as Lee Carsley and Michael Carrick.