Five senior players left West Bromwich Albion on a permanent basis over the course of the summer transfer window. Albion are keeping tabs on a host of their young loanees, as well as Championship pair Karlan Grant and Taylor Gardner-Hickman, but they did bid farewell to a host of member of last season's squad.

In all Albion brought in four new faces in the summer and said goodbye to 17 players at various levels of their squad. One player has remained in the Championship, one has made the step up to the Premier League and another has dropped into League One. Sadly, two more players have prematurely packed in football altogether.

Former Celtic favourite Tom Rogic and ex Sheffield United defender Kean Bryan both called time on their playing careers when their contracts at The Hawthorns expired in the summer, the former in order to spend more time with his family and the latter on medical advice after a luckless 18 months in which he was sidelined. How are the other departed trio faring?

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Dara O'Shea

The Albion captain, a regular alongside Jayson Molumby in the Ireland squad, was the major departure of the summer when he joined promoted Burnley for £7m. Under legendary Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany, it looked on paper to be an excellent move for a centre half who had made a significant impact during his time in the Albion first team and with his best years still in front of him.

Things haven't quite gone according to plan as of yet, though - both for Burnley as a whole and O'Shea individually. While the Clarets are bottom of the top flight, with only four points to their name and a single victory in 12, O'Shea hasn't always been guaranteed a place in the starting XI.

“It was a tough period and it is not easy,” O’Shea said. “When you are injured you can kind of accept it as you can’t possibly play, but when you are fit and ready and trying to do everything on the training pitch and you don’t get selected, it is a tough one to take. Seeing the boys go out there and you have worked hard all week to try and get into that position, it is hard, but it pushes you on. There will always be that opportunity again, you have to be there to take it.

“There wasn’t much words said to me, to be honest. I don’t know why that was. I think that’s just the way he [Kompany] handles things. I had to get my head around that and work hard, put myself back in the frame, which I have done, playing consistently for the last few games and I am really enjoying it.”

Jake Livermore

Club captain Livermore brought to an end a six-and-a-half year stay at The Hawthorns when he left in the summer. Not a player who figured particularly under Carlos Corberan, Livermore was permitted a poignant farewell to the Albion fanbase in the win over Norwich City at the back end of last season. Now 34, the former England international did manage to remain at the same level as Albion and secured a deal with Watford.

There, he has been reunited with former Albion boss Valerien Ismael, under who he worked and was captain for between summer 2021 and winter 2022, prior to the ill-fated end to the Frenchman's tenure in charge. He has, most recently, begun to help change Watford's fortunes since returning to the starting XI after spending the entirety of September without playing a minute.

Ismael brought him back into the side for the draw at Cardiff at the beginning of last month and, in the time since, the Hornets are unbeaten in six, having won three and having kept four clean sheets in that period, which has helped them climb from 21st to 13th in the Championship table. Livermore has completed 90 minutes in all but the most recent of those games, the 5-0 victory over Rotherham at the weekend, and even then he wasn't fully fit.

“I think today Jake showed his mentality. He trained normally this week until Tuesday, but then he got sick,” Ismael said after the game. “He trained again yesterday but we were really on a knife edge if he would play. He said he felt well enough, he was here for the team and he wanted to play and support them. That he had enough to do what he did for one hour showed the mentality we need. He is a big example for all the players.”

David Button

Button dipped from the first choice goalkeeper at The Hawthorns at the beginning of last season to the third choice, behind academy pair Alex Palmer and Josh Griffiths, after a series of errors which led to both Steve Bruce and Carlos Corberan dropping him from the starting XI.

When it came to the summer, and with Palmer very much solidified as the outright number one, Button was granted a move and, with a move to Reading lined up, he came to an agreement with Albion to end his contract a year early. Button, 34, has been a regular in the Royals side and, at the time of writing, has kept four clean sheets in 16 appearances.

He recently, though, was at fault during a defeat at Northampton Town, in a performance which the local press described as 'calamitous'. Boss Ruben Selles said: “Today was probably not his night but we still trust him. He has been excellent for us on many occasions and has kept us in games. We can all have a bad day, we can accept that but the trust in him is still 100%.”

Reading, who have been the recipients of two points deductions this season totalling four points, currently are rock bottom of League One with just seven points to their name and are ten points adrift of safety.

Four in, 17 out - how would you sum up West Brom's summer transfer window?