ALBION boss Chris Hughton believes Glenn Murray and Tomer Hemed can play together.

Murray has been re-signed from Bournemouth on loan for the season to combine and compete with Hemed and Sam Baldock.

They were the front pair used most regularly last season but Hughton feels Murray can link up with Hemed, despite accepting they are similar-type players.

He said: “I’d like to think so. These are the combinations you work on. I see no reason, providing both players have a good work ethic.

“Most people know in the way I play I certainly want one of the front two to also have the responsibility to drop in.

“I won’t generally play two players high up the park in a 4-4-2 but I think both players are good enough and intelligent enough to play that way.

“They are similar type players, both number nines, but Sam Baldock always was a number nine.

“It was only when I came in that he was playing on the left. He has played a lot of games up front for us but probably with more responsibility to drop in, because he is a big runner. But he always was a number nine when he went to West Ham.”

Albion will sign another striker before the transfer window shuts at the end of August to restore the numbers following Bobby Zamora’s release and the return of on-loan James Wilson to Manchester United.