New Albion manager Mark McGhee will make his mark by signing another front man.

Strengthening the strike force is the immediate priority for the 46-year-old Scotsman, revealed on Tuesday as the Seagulls' eighth boss in six years.

McGhee, back in management just 13 days after parting company with Millwall, said: "If you write down the list of players then it's up front in particular that you feel there are gaps.

"You feel we are lightweight there. If we had an injury, then there might be a problem so that is something we will address immediately."

Chairman Dick Knight revealed limited funds are available to McGhee.

"I have made it clear to him what the budget is," Knight said. "It hasn't changed, there is still money in the budget and we have talked a little bit about that.

"I have given Mark my view of what I think we need to strengthen the squad but it is up to Mark to decide.

"We have already talked about one or two actual players and I am confident there will be some resources there for him to go and get them."

McGhee will pick the team for his first match in charge on Saturday at Peterborough, where his three-year reign at Millwall began with a 4-1 win.

He will lean heavily on the advice of assistant Bob Booker and there are unlikely to be many changes, either in personnel or tactics, for the trip to London Road, where the Seagulls will be trying to bounce back from a hat-trick of defeats.

McGhee, who played under Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen, said: "I'm pretty much a 4-4-2 man. That's how I played under Fergie, at Celtic, Newcastle and even Hamburg."

McGhee is already aware of Albion's two star players. Captain Danny Cullip has the same agent (Phil Smith) and Leon Knight's scoring exploits attracted his attention when he was in charge at Millwall.

"I know the rest of the squad, not intimately, but what they look like as players and how they play," he added.

"I will have to get closer to them to find out how good or poor they are, but that won't take very long.

"I think they need strengthening and tinkering. Somehow we have to get a bit more out of them as individuals, but I think I have ways of doing that."

Albion dropped to third in the Second Division last night after Barnsley's 2-1 win over Wrexham lifted them above the Seagulls.