West Brom have reportedly opened discussions with Northern Ireland star Isaac Price over a new contract after scoring twice in Saturday’s 3-1 Championship win towards Burnley.
Former Everton teenager Price joined the Baggies from Standard Liege in January 2025 and netted 9 targets in 46 league matches throughout his first full season final time period.
The 22-year-old has as soon as once more began the new marketing campaign in fantastic kind with his second half weekend brace serving to West Brom preserve an ideal begin to the season – they’re one among solely three groups to win each of their opening Championship video games.
According to the Express & Star, the News Letter’s sister title, West Brom are eager to tie Price all the way down to an prolonged deal which might replicate his worth and standing in the crew – he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract after becoming a member of the membership.
Price has developed into one among Northern Ireland’s most necessary gamers, scoring 10 targets in 32 worldwide matches, and joined an unique hat-trick membership by netting a treble towards Bulgaria at Windsor Park in October 2024.
The attacker is eager to construct additional on his purpose numbers this season and supervisor Michael O’Neill will hope Price can carry his constructive kind into Northern Ireland’s Nations League marketing campaign, which will get underway subsequent month.
“I do know I’ve these form of targets in my locker, it’s nearly scoring them now actually,” Price instructed BBC WM. “I scored a few last year but I need to score more goals, I know that.
“I should have had two or three in the first half as well which are probably easier opportunities. I’m buzzing with the goals and with the win.
“I practice penalties every day and feel confident I can score.”
West Brom finished 21st in the Championship last season, four points above the relegation zone, and Price insists all associated with The Hawthorns club are remaining calm despite a solid start.
“Every game in the Championship is tough and it doesn’t matter who you play,” he added. “We had this last year – we started really well and it went downhill pretty fast, so it is about keeping our feet on the ground, keeping a level of consistency in performances to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
“You are all the time studying as a participant, even the lads who’ve performed 2, 3, 400 video games. It’s about managing video games and moments – we conceded a number of targets that we should not have final season and we did not rating sufficient on the different finish.
“This year I want to be a key player where I show that that can’t happen and I want to be a leader in this team to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
Price will get a possibility to check himself towards Premier League opposition on Wednesday evening when West Brom journey to Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup second spherical.
“All the lads are buzzing,” he stated. “They are the games you want to be drawn in, in the cup – to go and play away at a Premier League team and at a place where we can go and show our quality. I can’t wait.”