Leon Knight knows a good striker when he sees one and he believes manager Mark McGhee has pulled off a masterstroke in bringing three trialists to Albion.

Maheta Molango, Zsombor Kerekes and Ibrahim Tankary were all unknown players before they made impressive debuts in a pre-season win at Woking on Friday.

They carried on where they had left off by starring again the following day as Albion made it a hat-trick of 3-0 friendly wins at Crawley.

McGhee now faces the problem of deciding which striker to sign, with finances likely to restrict him to just one.

But Knight, top scorer in Division Two last season, will be happy to line-up alongside any of them after he completes a ban which rules him out for the first three games of the season which starts at Reading on August 7.

He said: "They are good. They have all got different strengths and the manager has done very well to bring them in.

"Whether we sign them or not is up to the manager. They have all got pace, strength and an eye for goal.

"It would be good to get a new striker on board and any one of the three, or even two, would be good signings."

Swiss striker Molango, 22 next week, was the player who stood out, scoring two goals to add to the one he netted against Woking.

He has a good pedigree having spent two years in the reserves at Athletico Madrid after coming through the youth ranks at Swiss division three club FC Biel-Bienne.

Molango comes to Albion from German club Wacker Burghauseu who play in the same second division as Alemannia Aachen which is the outfit Chris Iwelumo, the striker McGhee is trying to replace, has joined.

His first goal on 43 minutes illustrated the attributes he could bring to Albion. He latched onto a through ball by John Piercy and raced past Crawley captain Kevin Hemsley with devastating pace and close control before firing an angled side-foot shot into the roof of the net.

He showed his eye for goal again on 69 minutes, drilling a low first-time shot into the bottom left-hand corner from ten yards after the ball fell loose in the Crawley box.

His lively performance only just outshone that of his first-half strike-partner Kerekes, who could have had a hat-trick had it not been for Crawley trialist keeper Phil Smith.

The 30-year-old, who played for Pecsi Mecsek in his home country Hungary last season, saw a volley from outside the box pushed away by the England semi-professional stopper.

Smith then produced two more point-blank saves from the giant striker, who was replaced at half time by Tankary.

The 32-year-old Niger international captain, a proven goalscorer during his time at Belgian club Lommel, struggled to create a scoring chance, but had a hand in the build-up to the third goal.

It was scored by Knight with a shot deflected off Reds' new signing Neil Jenkins 60 seconds after he had come off the bench with 14 minutes remaining.

McGhee was pleased with the performance but said his players still have a lot of pre-season work to do.

He said: "The important thing with this game was mentally how we approached it and physically how we looked.

"We have always got to take into account what the players have been doing aside from the game. Some had a game the night before and prior to that we had a very hard athletics day on Thursday.

"So to come through without conceding a goal and to have won both so convincingly is encouraging for me.

"The emphasis this week is still on the core fitness with the introduction of a bit more systematic football, as opposed to small-sided games.

"We will be looking at the way we are playing and people in positions and start working towards the Reading game."

Crawley manager Francis Vines was also satisfied with his side. Reds are preparing for their debut season in the Conference and, from the evidence of their first-half performance and patches of the second, they should more than hold their own.

Striker Dan Marney almost scored against his old club when his delicate chip on 19 minutes just dipped over.

Another Albion old-boy, Paul Armstrong, caught out Ben Roberts seven minutes later with a superb lob from 35 yards which was a fraction too high.

Jenkins, a summer signing from Southend, went closest for the home side on 29 minutes with a curling free-kick which hit the angle of post and bar.

Vines said: "This was only our second pre-season game and that was their third. They train every day, so I didn't think we looked too bad for the first hour.

"The one blemish was the goal in the first half which I was disappointed about but other than that we competed quite well."

McGhee has not finished building for the new campaign.

He said: "There are one or two players around who I want to have a look at and, given the opportunity, I know are good players and could be part of the squad.

"We will continue to look but there are a lot of players to look at."

Albion's next warm-up match is at Conference South side Weymouth on Wednesday.