West Brom boss Alan Pardew has dismissed calls for a sports shrink to be employed.

Pardew has dismissed the notion of employing a psychologist to help West Brom players overcome a habit for conceding late goals.

He said: "I'm the psychologist. I've told them, and I'm sure they've got the message. I can't play though and your experienced players and younger players need to understand where the game is at and how will we see it through.

"This group is intelligent enough to grasp that – and over the years this team's been very good at it actually – it's only in the last three months that they've found it a problem.

"We get loads of data and we're the seventh strongest running team in last 30 minutes. That suggests to me it's not fitness, it's concentration and confidence.

"I think it's important you have a dialogue with players, try to know how they're feeling and what emotions they're going through in certain situations.

"I'm trying to give them confidence so they understand perhaps why the error occurred."