West Brom transfer news: Willem Geubbels blow, Grady Diangana, Tony Mowbray striker update | OneFootball

FLW have rounded up the latest Baggies transfer news with a week left until the window closes

West Brom are one of the leaders in the Championship play-off race right now, and their January transfer business looks set to continue right until the deadline as recently-appointed boss Tony Mowbray aims to finish in the top six come the end of the season.

The Baggies currently sit fifth in the second-tier, but have struggled for form as late after Carlos Corberan's departure last month, yet emphatically returned to winning ways last time out with a 5-1 win over relegation-threatened Portsmouth for Mowbray's first three points since his return to The Hawthorns.

Mowbray has already moved to make his first signing in his second era in charge of West Brom, with attacking midfielder Isaac Price joining the club for a reported fee of £2.5 million from Standard Liege, but he is no doubt targeting more signings, particularly up front after the recent injury blow to top-scorer Josh Maja.

With that in mind, Football League World have rounded up all the latest transfer news regarding the Baggies with just a week to go until Deadline Day.

West Brom receive Willem Geubbels blow as Luton Town close in

The Baggies' hunt for a new striker needs to reach its conclusion soon, but one player who has recently been linked with a move to Albion now looks set to make the move to a different Championship side this week.

Sky Sports' Lyall Thomas reported last week that West Brom, alongside fellow promotion hopefuls Norwich City and Leeds United, were interested in a move for St. Gallen striker Willem Geubbels, who has scored seven goals in 14 Swiss Super League games this season.

Despite their apparent interest, Foot Mercato have now tipped the 23-year-old to make the move to Luton during this transfer window, with the Hatters now reportedly in advanced talks to sign Geubbels on a loan deal.

Geubbels was previously on the books of Lyon and Monaco in his native France, and was once the youngest player ever to make a Europa League debut at the former, yet now looks set to move to English football for the first time in his young career, but seemingly not to the Baggies.

Grady Diangana contract situation amid Burnley, Parma and Celta Vigo interest

Tricky winger Grady Diangana is into his sixth season at The Hawthorns, and fifth as a permanent Baggies player, since his initial arrival on loan from West Ham United in the summer of 2019.

The DR Congo international has been a thorn in the side of many Championship teams over the years in blue and white, and while his performances took a dip at the start of this campaign, he has returned to form in recent weeks and looks set to be a key player over the next few months as the Baggies aim for a top-six finish.

West Brom's issue is that his current deal runs out at the end of this season, and so he has recently been offered a contract proposal by fellow second-tier side Burnley, which was duly turned down by the 26-year-old, according to Fabrizio Romano.

Romano reports that Italian club Parma and La Liga outfit Celta Vigo are both also interested in Diangana as a potential free agent ahead of next season, so he and the club both have big decisions to make over the coming weeks and months, but boss Mowbray has made it clear that he "would like to have Grady in (the) team moving forward."

Tony Mowbray reveals West Brom's striker struggles

West Brom may well have netted five at home to Portsmouth last time out, but that was certainly an anomaly in a season where their strikers, other than Josh Maja, have largely struggled to score goals, with winger Karlan Grant mostly leading the line in his absence.

The Nigerian international picked up a lower leg injury at the start of the month that has required surgery and is set to rule him out for a while yet, which has accelerated the need for a new forward to be signed, but regardless of his issues, the Baggies are in need of new blood in attack with Devante Cole struggling to make an impact and Daryl Dike also sidelined.

While the aforementioned Geubbels does not look set to make the move to the West Midlands this week, boss Mowbray has insisted that the club are searching in the European market for a new striker, but are currently facing challenges in bringing someone in with the February 3 deadline now looming.

"I know the club have been working hard in the background trying to add. That continues," he told the Express & Star last week.

"I sat with Ian (Pearce) till pretty late last night watching players from across Europe. There are one or two issues as to why you can or can't get certain players in, how eligible they are, but generally the club are working hard and trying to help.

"Hopefully in the next two weeks we'll add a player who lives for goals. Who is the best in the world at scoring goals? Erling Haaland, some games he has ten touches but scores three goals.

"We need to have players on the pitch who can supply a player who wants to score, who is always in the six-yard box and demands the winger puts the ball in. They're not easy to find. Every club wants a goalscorer. Hopefully, we can work with the ones we've got."

Their previous issues of finding the back of the net in Maja's absence were certainly not on show against Pompey on the weekend, but even then, both Diangana and Jed Wallace were deployed as forwards in a 4-4-2, and that will not be how Mowbray wants to set up going forward, despite the rampant display.