[Beefy 1965]

Confirming What Tom has said above .......................


Tony Pulis revealed West Bromwich Albion are in the process of trying to bring four new players to The Hawthorns.

Pulis is keen on Wigan’s Callum McManaman with Albion set to increase their opening gambit for the 23-year-old winger.

At the same time Pulis is trying to make headway in a pursuit for a striker with all the signs Albion’s dealings will go to the wire.

Liverpool are unlikely to allow Rickie Lambert out of Anfield until they have a replacement in place but Albion clearly have other irons in the fire including Swansea left-back Neil Taylor

“We have had bids for four different players go in. We will just wait and see.

“You put bids in and you see what the clubs want and then we will take a view. It’s not just him (McManaman) there are three or four other people that we have asked and enquired about.

“Then we will take a view what we think is value for money and what is right for us.

“Some of them haven’t come back to us, some are still negotiating. But we will take a view when we are in a position to assess what we’ve got and what we haven’t got and we will go from there.

“There are certain areas on the pitch within the group that we have to get to enable us to be better.

“We do need a bit of pace out wide without a question of doubt.

Pulis was more than delighted by the character shown by his team in last night’s rugged 0-0 draw at Everton.

The point took Albion ahead of Villa in the table and kept the new boss’ unbeaten record in tact.

“There’s lot of things that we have to improve upon and obviously we have to do it quickly because we need to the points to stay up.”

Albion didn't have a shot on target and post-match statistics had them down at just 31 per cent possession.

“It was a resilient performance. I thought the lads worked really hard,” Pulis said.

“We have only had a few days to really get down to working with the team. They worked so hard off the ball, they put their lives on the line at times.

“We needed to.

“What we have to do, and it doesn't come overnight, we have to be better on the ball. The midfield players at times gave the ball away too cheaply and they are good players: Morrison, Brunt, Gardner and Yacob.

“If you are going to be that solid you have to be able to break on teams. You have to commit, you can’t be sat there all the time.

“But they gave a fantastic effort and good resilience. It was really pleasing.


“We were poor on the changeover and we have to improve on that because against the better teams you can’t keep giving the ball back to them because eventually they will punish you.

“That’s a big thing that has come out of the game tonight- not the effort, not the commitment... the shape of the team was very good defensively.

“But when we get the ball we have to retain it and get passes off to get us off the pitch.

“The players have worked really hard but they have got on with it. Getting results is the most important thing because it sells it to the players.”