TONY Mowbray is calling on his players to show loyalty and remain with West Brom if they are relegated from the Barclays Premier League.

The Baggies boss feels the members of his squad he will want to keep ‘‘owe the football club’’ and should try to ensure Albion are promoted back to the top flight at the first attempt.

Bottom-placed Albion’s fate could be virtually decided if they are beaten at home by fellow strugglers Sunderland today.

Mowbray did not name specific players but the likes of James Morrison, Jonathan Greening, Paul Robinson, Robert Koren and Scott Carson would be potential targets for Premier League clubs should West Brom go down.

Skipper Greening has already pledged to stay and he is willing to sign a new contract.

Mowbray said: ‘‘The bottom line is it isn’t just the manager who has taken the team down, it isn’t just the players who have taken the team down. If we go down, we are all hopefully going to gain from the experience.

‘‘It is a lot more complicated in that modern-day footballers are all governed by their advisors as well and what they think is best for them, and what becomes paramount is your relationship with the players really.

‘‘My discussion point with most of them would be they owe the football club, they owe the fans and their teammates another crack at it.

‘‘Let’s all try to get back to the Premier League because if we do that, I think we will be so much better for it.

‘‘We will have had the experience of this season and that is a pretty strong, powerful message. They should have a responsibility to feel that.

‘‘I don’t want to ram that home. It comes from within.

You have either got that or you haven’t. You’ve got to look deep into these players and see what drives and motivates them.’’ Mowbray insists he will not bow to transfer requests if he feels players are only claiming to want a move because of advice from their advisors.

He said: ‘‘There is someone saying they are unhappy and there is being really unhappy, and you find them out.

‘‘It’s okay someone coming in and saying ‘I want to go’. It doesn’t mean he is unhappy.

That means his agent has told him, ‘Go and see the gaffer and tell him you want to go’.

‘‘I’ve got to dig deeper than that.

‘‘If they are not going and it becomes an issue, and they don’t want to play, then it’s no problem to me. They will come in and train every day.

‘‘That is not being hardline.

That is just life.”