West Brom boss Sam Allardyce has explained passing on free agent Ahmed Musa.

The free agent trained with West Brom last week before Allardyce decided against offering him a contract.

Albion had run out of money having already signed Robert Snodgrass, Andy Lonergan, Mbaye Diagne and Okay Yokuslu in January.

"We bought four players in so that didn't fall within our budget," said Allardyce.

"It was a shame Musa didn't come in earlier because of Covid and he may have been one of the four we brought in but because he was the fifth it couldn't get done."