[Tibby Baggie]

West Brom head coach Tony Pulis has expressed his displeasure with midfielder Stéphane Sessègnon after he reported back late after international duty.

Sessègnon plays for Benin, and had featured in two African Cup of Nations qualifiers during the international break but failed to report back to training on Tuesday as he should have.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference , Pulis had this to say on the matter:

It’s disappointing that Sess hasn’t turned up, but I haven’t spoken to him yet.
The Englishman cited Saloman Rondon as a good example of what Pulis expects from his internationals. Rondon spent the international break away playing for Venezuela.

Salomon Rondon was back in and training on Tuesday and he’s come from the other side of the planet [Venezuela].

I suppose TP will use this as an excuse not to play the only flair player we have tomorrow and justify the usual selection of seven centre halves when we play teams below us.

....I presume this is said with a huge tongue in cheek, broken? I'm thinking that TP does like to play Sess when he can but if he steps out of line then he, like anyone else*, will suffer the consequences

*......even one of the 7 centre halves 

I hope it's tongue in cheek as well. Sess is on enough money to be able to afford a phone - this incident sounds like he was AWOL and couldn't be arsed to even make a phonecall. Whereas Rondon travelled further and was back grafting in training like he's paid to do.