BREAKING NEWS: Carlos Corberan confirms West Brom goalkeeper plan and sends transfer instruction

Carlos Corberan has moved to install young Ted Cann as the club’s new third choice goalkeeper after the departure of David Button earlier this week, and he considers that department of his West Bromwich Albion squad resolved – unless an offer is received which changes matters.

Corberan has been able to call upon Alex Palmer in the club’s first league game of the season at Blackburn Rovers last weekend and then utilised Josh Griffiths in the EFL Cup defeat at Stoke City on Tuesday – earlier in the same day the club confirmed that Button had been released a year before the end of his contract to allow him to join Reading on a free transfer.

Some wondered whether with Palmer, who was 27 on Thursday, and Griffiths, who is 22 next month, might be joined by an experienced head to complement their abilities – as Andy Lonergan and Ali Al Habsi have previously done with Albion – but Corberan doesn’t feel as though that is required and is satisfied that Cann is in a comfortable enough position to take on the third choice role.

“Right now, the first keeper and second keeper are Alex Palmer and Josh Griffiths,” Corberan explained, following the departure of Button. “The third position is going to be taken by Ted Cann. He’s going to play this role.”

Albion, with any luck, are still a little way away from looking like what Corberan would consider to be the finished article. He has made no secret of his desire to welcome more players into the fold before 2 September, though he knows that more departures are likely. In the meantime, he has reiterated that the club’s recruitment unit must be alert to all eventualities.

“In my mind my focus is to work with the players that I have right now, to be focused to other things would be a mistake for me,” Corberan said. “Our recruitment department always need to be looking for options in case anything happened with any type of player in the team, because depending on the possibilities we will accept (offers) or not, this can be affected by the club finances or the competitiveness to add to the squad.

“There are two things, I need to be focused in the game because right now we’re in the competition and the club need to be focused on every type of rumour or whatever, if it’s real or not real or needs a replacement or no replacement, depends on how real it is.”