West Brom manager Slaven Bilic says that Dara O'Shea has been offered a new contract by the Championship leaders.
The Ireland U21 international has made a breakthrough into the West Brom first team this season. He made his Championship debut last month, coming off the bench against Brentford to play 40 minutes. He subsequently started in the FA Cup against Charlton earlier this month.
"He has been offered a new contract, definitely," Bilic told The Express and Star about the centre-back.
"I have said from the start, from July, that he is the present and the future of the club.
"I love Dara O’Shea. We all love him.
"But forget how nice he is as a kid, I love Dara as a football player.
"In the summer, we lost three players in that position – (Craig) Dawson, (Mason) Holgate and (Tosin) Adarabioyo plus (Ahmed) Hegazi had surgery.
"But we only brought in one. The club wanted to bring in more, and the only reason we didn’t was Dara.
"From day one, he showed dedication, motivation, readiness to learn and, more than anything, potential and quality."
O'Shea, who is from Dublin, joined West Brom in 2016 from St Kevin's Boys.
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