Albion have been plunged into a loan dilemma after losing Aaron Hughes at Bournemouth tonight.
The veteran defender was stretchered off with an ankle injury in the early stages of the 3-2 defeat.
Hughes, filling in at right-back to give Inigo Calderon a rest, is Albion's cover centre-half for Gordon Greer and Lewis Dunk, who are both a booking from a ban.
The Seagulls will be forced into the loan market again if Hughes' absence is long-term but they have already borrowed five players - the maximum number permitted in the matchday squad - after re-signing Elliott Bennett on loan from Norwich for a month earlier today.
Boss Sami Hyypia told The Argus: "Maybe I need to start to train! The rule is you can have only five loan players and with Elliott coming we have five (Al-Habsi, Bennett, Gardner, Teixeira), so then we would leave to need somebody out.
"I don't know if that's a good idea but of course it's a concern if Aaron is out for a long while. It maybe would be reasonable to try to get somebody in."
The loan situation is complicated further by Hyypia's desire to sign a goalscorer, regardless of Adrian Colunga and Sam Baldock both hitting the target tonight.
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The veteran defender was stretchered off with an ankle injury in the early stages of the 3-2 defeat.
Hughes, filling in at right-back to give Inigo Calderon a rest, is Albion's cover centre-half for Gordon Greer and Lewis Dunk, who are both a booking from a ban.
The Seagulls will be forced into the loan market again if Hughes' absence is long-term but they have already borrowed five players - the maximum number permitted in the matchday squad - after re-signing Elliott Bennett on loan from Norwich for a month earlier today.
Boss Sami Hyypia told The Argus: "Maybe I need to start to train! The rule is you can have only five loan players and with Elliott coming we have five (Al-Habsi, Bennett, Gardner, Teixeira), so then we would leave to need somebody out.
"I don't know if that's a good idea but of course it's a concern if Aaron is out for a long while. It maybe would be reasonable to try to get somebody in."
The loan situation is complicated further by Hyypia's desire to sign a goalscorer, regardless of Adrian Colunga and Sam Baldock both hitting the target tonight.
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