Bio

Isaac Price returns to England a more experienced, well-rounded, and prepared professional for his new career chapter with Albion. 

A versatile midfielder, primarily operating from the middle of the park with a box-to-box style of play, Price enjoyed a stellar footballing education at Finch Farm in Everton’s youth ranks - a club who he joined as a seven-year-old. 

Raised in Pontefract, Wakefield, Isaac developed his technical qualities to rise through the ranks at the Merseyside outfit, learning under figures such as club legend Leighton Baines during his journey in the youth system. 

Positive impressions in his scholarship earned Price a first professional contract at Everton in September 2020, where he penned a three-year deal to enter a crucial part of his career. 

Naturally, football in the U21s team followed as Isaac geared up towards making the jump to professional football, but involvement in senior training sessions helped the youngster adjust to the physical requirements that the men’s game demanded. 

Who better to give him a taste of that life than elite European coach, Carlo Ancelotti. The Italian named the midfielder on the bench for the first time in the Toffees’ Premier League clash away at Brighton in 2021 - further showcasing Price’s positive strides towards a first-team future. 

Just under a year later, Isaac boxed off two important events - a senior debut against Boreham Wood in the Emirates FA Cup, before his first Premier League minutes in the 21/22 season finale versus Arsenal. 

While Ancelotti was the boss who gave the central midfielder his first flavour of first-team football, Frank Lampard provided him with his bows on the big stage as an 18-year-old - priceless memories and given his mutual position with his boss at the time, not a bad person to have gained them under. 

Momentum was built off these experiences and although Price grew up in England, his family heritage enabled him to represent Germany and Northern Ireland. Still, it was only his two home nations which he represented at youth level, with the 'Green and White Army’ handing him an all-important breakthrough on the international front. 

With caps in the U16, 17, 19 and 21s already to his name, the Everton academy graduate received his first senior call-up for his nation’s European qualifiers in March 2023 - making his debut against San Marino during this period. 

At the end of that season, Price would make his final first-team appearance in blue prior to making a big career decision. Of course, the decision was to soak up a new experience, country, culture and style of football in Belgium with Standard Liege.

A big step, but one which the midfielder took in his stride - becoming a regular starter for his new team at the start of the 23/24 campaign, and buoyed following his maiden Northern Ireland goal in September, Isaac bagged his first goal for Les Rouches in some fashion.  

It came courtesy of a last-minute winner against Club Brugge the following month, but it would prove to be the first and only goal of his one-and-a-half-year spell in Belgium. In which time, Price made 63 appearances in red, adding two assists to his goal contributions at the Stade Maurice Dufrasne.

Having achieved his personal ambition of being a first-team regular, he returns to England looking to exhibit his influence in the middle of the park with the Baggies.