Tony Pulis: My West Brom tactics won't put strikers off

The Baggies boss only has two options up front at the moment and is desperate to land at least one forward in the transfer window, with Watford's Troy Deeney his primary target.

Albion have found goals incredibly hard to come by recently. They haven't scored in eight of their last 10 games and lost their last four home games of the season 1-0.

The club struggled to land their strike targets last summer for a variety of reasons, but Pulis doesn't believe his decision to play one up top will be a problem.

"How many of the top teams play with one striker?" he asked. "(Dele) Alli plays off (Harry) Kane. Arsenal play with one striker, Manchester United do, most of the top teams in Europe play with one striker. Madrid do, Atletico do it a lot in the big games, Juventus play with one striker.

"There’s lots of successful teams playing with one striker scoring lots of goals. I don’t think the problem is us not playing with two strikers."

Pulis has switched between a 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-4-1 formation this season but only played two up front towards the end of games when Albion were behind.

However, the Welshman didn't rule out playing two strikers in the future if the players he had in the squad allowed him to.

"It’s all according to what we end up with," he said. "It’s about finding good players and moulding them into the right system for the players.

"Chelsea played 4-3-3 for the first few games, got beat at Arsenal, and then he changed the system and they’ve been fantastic.

"He recognised that he’d be better playing with five at the back with (Marcos) Alonso and that. It’s what suits the players."

Hal Robson-Kanu has only netted twice all season, although he's mainly been limited to substitute appearances.

First-choice striker Salomon Rondon is top scorer with eight goals, but has only scored once since the middle of December.

"He’s had family issues that we don’t really want to go into, and his mind has been on that as well," admitted Pulis. "Being so far away from his mum and dad has not helped the situation."

Planning for the summer transfer window is already underway, but Pulis won't know the full extent of his budget until he flies out to China with chairman John Williams next Monday to meet owner Guochuan Lai.

“When the season is over hopefully I’ll be able to go over there when it’s more relaxed and talk about the finances," he said. “I think they’re well versed in what we want to do and what we don’t want to do.

“It’s nice to sit down face to face and talk to him and if it means travelling out to China it means travelling out to China."