Tony Pulis wants more funds at West Brom

West Brom boss Tony Pulis wants more financial backing to bolster his squad with the new TV money looming for Premier League teams.

So far this summer the Baggies have spent £5million on one signing – winger Matt Phillips.

A new £5.1billion TV deal comes into force this season, and plenty of clubs are spending big with the promise of a bumper pay-out next year.

Pulis is keen to keep up with the rest of the pack, saying: "The biggest thing is trying to improve the football club and stabilise what we're trying to achieve.

"To do that you have to get the finances and backing to improve. That's what we'll be trying to do.

"There's a lot more money coming into the Premier League next year so that means there'll be a lot more competition."

There are growing murmurs among supporters that Albion are being left behind in the transfer market.

Crystal Palace have spent £23m on Andros Townsend and James Tomkins, Watford have spent more than £18m on Isaac Success and Christian Kabasele, and promoted Middlesbrough have spent £12m on Marten de Roon.

But the Baggies had only made one signing by this point last year, and they finished that summer as the fifth highest net spenders in the league.

The majority of the club's business happens towards the end of the window.

Chairman Jeremy Peace was unhappy with last summer's erratic spending that saw Pulis splurge £3m on flop Rickie Lambert and £8m on James Chester, who he rarely played.

So Peace brought in Nick Hammond as technical director to help focus the club's spending.

Pulis has got just one year left on his contract, and although talks with the chairman are ongoing, he has not yet been offered a new one. But the Welshman isn't worried.

He said: "I've got a year left, it's not as though I'm walking away and packing it in.

"It's not as though the chairman has been ringing me, I've been ringing him and we've been arguing over anything.

"I don't think it makes any difference, for a long period of my career I worked with just a one-year rolling contract. It makes no difference."

Jonathan Leko, who limped out of the friendly against Paris-Saint Germain with a minor knock, will be assessed before tomorrow's game at Kidderminster Harriers.