Kevin Phillips has tipped Robert Snodgrass to leave The Hawthorns in the January transfer window.

What's been said?

In a recent interview with West Brom News, the former Premier League centre-forward stated his belief that, due to the versatile midfielder's high wages and lack of first-team minutes under the management of Valerien Ismael, the Scotland international could be set for a move away from West Brom this month.

Speaking about the 34-year-old's future, Phillips said: "From all parties concerned, Snodgrass might go. It's been made clear he's not in the plans. I'm pretty sure he's on a decent wage there so if they can get him through the door and free that up, that might be the option to bring a couple of players in on his salary alone. It makes sense. Snodgrass will just want to go play football somewhere."

Ismael must axe Snodgrass

While Snodgrass' impressive positional versatility and experience in the game would both appear to make him well suited to Ismael's setup at West Brom, the fact that the midfielder is reported to be earning a hefty £24k-per-week at the Championship side means that, if he really isn't part of the 46-year-old manager's plans, then the Frenchman simply must axe the Scot this winter.

This would seem to be the case, as, so far this season, the £720k-rated man has made just six Championship appearances with only four of these coming as starts.

Over those outings the 34-year-old has averaged a SofaScore match rating of 6.83, ranking him as the Baggies' 13th-best performer in the second tier of English football.

And, while his displays for Albion have been far from disastrous in the current campaign, with it being reported recently that Ismael will have to sell before he is able to bring in any further January additions, it would indeed appear as if the sale of the club's third-highest earner in Snodgrass would be a very wise move this month.

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