West Brom academy boss Richard Stevens admits Cheikh Diaby could be set for a loan move.
Albion already have fellow forwards Callum Morton and Jamie Soule (both Lincoln) as well as Owen Windsor (Grimsby) out on loan gaining crucial experience in the Football League.
And Stevens revealed Diaby could be the next striker to go out in search of first-team football.
“Cheikh took a couple of months to get up to speed because he'd missed a couple of months of football,"the academy chief explained.
“We were just getting him to what we thought was his fighting best, and then lockdown happened.
“He was one of the first ones we had to send home, we had a minute to make a decision to get them on planes and trains to get them home, because we knew what was coming.
“Cheikh was one of the last to come back in, because of the restrictions in France and the two-week quarantine here.
“He's just catching up now. He missed pre-season because of those restrictions.
“He's a powerful boy, he's going to score goals, he's going to give defences a problem because of his physicality.
“He's got plenty to develop but he's an interesting one. He could maybe do with a loan, maybe after Christmas, because he could do with getting some exposure somewhere.
“We'll see where he is at the end of that."
