West Brom boss Tony Mowbray is pleased to get his players away to Spain this week.

"The beauty is that you can control the environment you are training in," Mowbray told the WBA website. "The players are not going home to their families.

"They don't have to pick the kids up from school, so you can train at 11am, 3pm and 6pm if you want to.

"And you can do video work at night with back-fours and strikers. In some countries, especially American sports, they do that anyway.

"They take their athletes away and put them in dormitories in a controlled environment. English football traditionally has never been like that.

"They come in, train for an hour-and-a-half and go home.

"It will give us an opportunity to get some intensity into the work and keep the unit tight and together going into a very crucial part of the season.

"We will go tomorrow morning, come back on Thursday and have a couple of days back here before the Fulham game."