Alex Bradley never made a league appearance for Championship outfit West Bromwich Albion.
Alex Bradley has admitted to the Worcester News that he is very glad to have seen the back of West Bromwich Albion as he was worried about his progression, or a lack thereof, at The Hawthorns.
After spending 13 years at the same club, you’d think Bradley would be tearing himself up just a month after being told that he had no future at the Championship giants.
The 20-year-old midfielder was released at the end of the season and he is still on the market, having spent last season on loan at Havant and Waterlooville and Burton Albion.
Though, unemployed or not, it seems that Bradley is happier being away from the club he joined at the age of just seven.
“I am glad I am out of there,” Bradley said. “I never got a chance in the first team whereas others that had not been there as long as I had and were younger than me were given chances.
“It didn’t really matter how well you trained or performed they were just saying that you need to keep playing well and your chance will come. But I don’t think that was the case.
“It became a bit stale for me as I was just training with the under 23s and going out on loan. It just got stagnant.”
These comments will no doubt be a major disappointment to West Brom’s technical director Luke Dowling, who spoke recently to the Express and Star about the need to make better use of an academy whose graduates have so frequently been overlooked in recent years.
The likes of Kemar Roofe, Chris Wood and Ashley Williams all rose through the ranks before moving onto bigger and better things elsewhere and Bradley will now be hoping to follow in their footsteps and show The Baggies that they made another mistake.
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