Tony Pulis hopes to offload Sebastien Pocognoli and Cristian Gamboa

Albion boss Tony Pulis has confirmed that he's trying to offload both Sebastien Pocognoli and Cristian Gamboa.

The club's only recognised first-team full-backs before Chris Brunt and Craig Dawson's respective conversions to those positions, neither has been able to impress Pulis since the Welshman joined the club just over a year ago.

Pocognoli was bought from German club Hannover 96 in the summer of 2014 for around £1.5million.

Albion's first choice left-back under Alan Irvine, the Belgian hasn't played a minute in the Premier League under Pulis.

Gamboa was bought from Norwegian club Rosenborg in the same summer for £2million, but the Costa Rican has made just one league appearance under Pulis.

"Poco wants to play football, Cristian Gamboa wants to play football, people like that want to play football," said Pulis. "They want to be involved so if we can get them clubs and it's right for them and right for us, then they'll obviously move on.

"They've been good lads. They've been disappointed having not played, and I can understand that."

Albion's head coach was more cagey about the future of Callum McManaman, although he did confirm that he hadn't heard anything from Birmingham.

Pulis signed McManaman from Wigan last January for £4.75million. The winger – who was man of the match in the 2013 FA Cup final – has been limited to substitute appearances for most of the season.

He may get a chance against Bristol City as Pulis goes all-out attack.

"On Saturday I really want to be positive and try and get as many strikers on the pitch as I possibly can," he said. "I don't want a replay. We want to win this in one game.

"It's very important that we play in a real positive manner, on the front foot and try and create as many chances as possible, even if it becomes an end-to-end game."

Albion have sold more than 20,000 tickets for an FA Cup third round game at The Hawthorns for the first time since 1993.