Albion striker Glenn Murray is ready to sit and bide his time and wait for head coach Graham Potter to select him.

Murray has only started two of Albion’s four games in the Premier League this season and, in his last two appearances, has only had limited game time off the bench.

The striker said: “It’s just all part of the process I have just got to sit and bide my time and when the manger feels it’s right to play me then he’ll do so and when he doesn’t he won’t and rightly so.

“That is something I have got to accept and others in the squad. We have got to train well and make ourselves available for Saturday and then it’s down to the gaffer who he selects.”

One factor that could aid Murray’s game time is the departure of Florin Andone and Jurgen Locadia on loan to Galatasaray and Hoffenheim respectively.

This means that Murray is the most experienced striker at Premier League level out of the three at Potter’s disposal but does it put pressure on the striker’s shoulders?

He said: “No it doesn’t. It’s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes and the group we remain with are eager to learn, to impress, to score goals and to fill the void left.”

One player who Murray will be competing with for a start up front is Neal Maupay, who has started Albion’s last two games.

The 35-year-old was full of praise for Maupay as he talked to the media this week, despite a suggestion from one reporter that the Frenchman has yet to fulfil his potential.

He said: “Well, I think you are doing him a disservice there by saying he hasn’t produced yet . He scored a hell of a lot of goals in the Championship.

“He is a very good player. He has done it at Championship level and that level in itself is very difficult in its own way.

“Now he has got an opportunity in the Premier League and so far he has been taking that opportunity with both hands and hopefully he will continue to do so.”

Murray spoke about how he tries to change his game for whoever is starting up-front alongside him.

He said: “I try and be adaptable to whichever striker or No.10 that I play with and work to their strengths as well as my own.

“I feel as though in training myself and Neal have got an understanding, the same as me and Aaron Connolly.

“They both like to get in behind the back four and it’s funny because, when I’m playing behind them, I know what they want already.

“I have been in their position previously and I understand how they want to be fed and where they want the balls and if I ever find myself out wide, I know where I would like the ball I think strikers are on the same wavelength.”

One player who Murray will know well is Burnley striker Ashley Barnes. The pair played a great role in Albion’s promotion campaign to the Championship from League One in the 2010-11 season scoring 42 goals between them in all competitions.

Barnes has been in an insane run of form with only Sergio Aguero (16) and Sadio Mane (15) having scored more goals than the Burnley forward (13) in 2019.

Murray was full of praise for his ex-strike partner. He said: “It’s an amazing stat and one that he will want to carry on with but it just shows his hard work, his determination no matter who he plays against it doesn’t change his style.

“He is always hungry to score goals and brings other into play which he has done brilliantly and he should enjoy the plaudits while he is getting them.”

Chris Wood chipped in for the Seagulls during the 2010-11 season when he was on loan from West Bromwich Albion, scoring nine goals and Murray is aware of the danger Burnley possess.

He said: “You can be direct when you got those two upfront fighting for every ball you can play off that and it works for them.

“Barnes has scored plenty of goals and I’m sure Woodsy will have his turn the goals will start coming his way.

“It quite often happens that all the chances fall to one man for a while and then maybe blow a bit cold and then the other guy gets some chances.

They work well as a partnership and they always have.”