Sam Allardyce accepts that the January transfer window will be an especially tricky one to conduct business in for West Brom - but he's hopeful that the club are able to make a couple of additions over the course of the month to strengthen his hand in the battle for survival.
Allardyce, 66, has taken over at The Hawthorns and inherits an Albion side who sit in 19th place, but only two points adrift of safety as things stand.
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He replaces Slaven Bilic a couple of weeks before the January window is kick-started, and having met with the Albion hierarchy ahead of his official appointment on Wednesday he posed the obvious question - is there scope to recruit?
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The budget at Albion is a limited one, of course, and Allardyce won't have anything like the money to spend that he did at Everton, or Crystal Palace, during winter windows in charge of those clubs.
Allardyce accepts that, but he says that the club is ready to support their new arrival.
"One of my first questions was that I may need help in January if I can," Allardyce said, in an interview with talkSPORT.
"Can we find a better player than what we've already got? Only then would I want to bring him in. That's a difficult task, because of Covid, the understanding of the club and where they're at at the moment.
"So yes, they're prepared to get some players, but we need to find where those players are. Who wants to let go of players in this pandemic? That's a particular problem.
"I can't suggest at this moment how many players we'd need. By the time I had finished four weeks and six games at Crystal Palace, I knew exactly what we needed to do.
"While the players here are working very hard and trying their best, and it's on the back of that magnificent, gutsy performance at Manchester City which I watched live, it's always good when they see a new player on the training ground who is going to make them better.
"The difficulty is finding that player, we'll have to try our best."
It'll be all about being on the same page as Albion seek to give themselves the best possible chance of securing a second successive campaign in the Premier League.
Allardyce was quite clear with that message when he spoke with sporting and technical director Luke Dowling and chief executive Ken.
"The meeting I had last night with Luke and Ken, my close contact with them was an understanding of what we're going to try and do together, because without their support there was point me coming really," Allardyce added.
"Give me the bottom line. If it's right, I'll give it a go, but give me your support going forward. And, of course, at the end - if there's the right player there, can we get him?"