West Brom manager Sam Allardyce has warned there is plenty of hard work ahead after Saturday’s thrilling victory over local rivals Wolves.

The Baggies gave their Premier League survival hopes a timely lift with a 3-2 win at Molineux.

Allardyce appeared on talkSPORT this morning, speaking about making the team harder to beat, the importance of this month’s transfer activity and his return to former club West Ham with the Baggies on Tuesday night.

Is keeping the team up an impossible task?

“An impossible task means you have to improve your performances on a regular basis.

“You have to become a consistent performer week in, week out to achieve results.

“To get there, you start from the basics and we’ve still got a long way to go on that.

“The most important thing in that area is that we have to stop conceding the goals we did again on Saturday, and have all season.

“Only one clean sheet tells you the reason why we’ve won only two games this season.

“A lot of my efforts are still to plant in the mind of the players how important it is.

“Nobody wins anything without stopping goals going in the back of the net.

“That key area gives us a platform to give us a chance to get out of this position.

“We then work on scoring a goal against the opposition we’re playing against.

“If we can get both of those sides better than we are at the moment, we’ll give ourselves a chance but there’s a long way to go.”

On the search for new signings

“It’s a huge amount of work and seems to be more active than anything else I’ve experienced.

“There seem to be players available across every part of the world at the moment.

“In our position, it’s difficult to trade. We can offer them a chance to come and play for us but we cannot buy them outright at this moment in time, so we are looking at loans. There’s a possibility that we have a loan with a view to buying the player if we stay in the Premier League.

“That makes it difficult for me to get the quality of player I want but we continue to push.

“We’ve started with one very experienced player in Robert Snodgrass He showed the sum of his experience at Wolves on Saturday.

“A quality player, or two quality players, or possibly even three quality players, would be good. That is a big task but it is what we must try and achieve by the end of January.

“It’s been the same everywhere I’ve been. It gives the players here a better chance of retaining their Premier League status.

“It benefits everyone. Of course, it doesn’t benefit some because it challenges their position and they may well lose their position but that’s name of the game in football, whether you’re in this position or not. All players accept that. They have to fight harder when the new players come in.”

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On a potential approach for Andy Carroll

“No, I don’t think so. I don’t think Andy would be available anyway because obviously he’s up there at Newcastle, where he loves. I can’t see Andy being available.”

How do you feel about returning to West Ham with the Baggies?

“All right, I’ve been back several times. It’s not a problem for me. West Ham are where they are because I and everybody else there managed to put them in the position for three seasons in the Premier League after getting promoted in year one. It was a job I really enjoyed.”