Joe Gatting is back in the first team reckoning for Albion after further striker frustration for manager Mark McGhee.

The prolific teenager has been added to the squad for tomorrow's relegation clash at home to Leicester.

Gatting's return follows his brace in Wednesday's FA Youth Cup triumph at Blackburn and more bad luck in McGhee's quest to bring in at least one new forward on loan.

Albion have targeted a handful of front men with Premiership teams this week but high wages, doubts about suitability and a block on loan departures by their clubs conspired against them.

McGhee's misfortune was highlighted by his bid to land goal-laden Spurs reserve prospect Lee Barnard.

The reason for Tottenham saying no', which McGhee did not want to reveal at the time, was the impending sale by Spurs of Grzegorz Rasiak, another Albion target.

The Polish international has since been reunited with George Burley, his old boss at Derby, in a loan switch to Southampton which will become permanent at the end of the season.

"That's why we couldn't get him," McGhee said. "Southampton are going to pay £2 million for him."

McGhee must now decide whether to give Gatting his full debut. The 18-year-old made late substitute appearances at Southampton and Sheffield United last month before a calf injury ruled him out of the last two games against Burnley and Coventry.

Gatting's Youth Cup double raised his goal tally for the season for the under-18's and reserves to 30 and clinched a glamour quarter-final visit to St James' Park, Newcastle.

"I'll be going to that one," said McGhee, a former Newcastle marksman. "It was a fantastic result at Blackburn.

"I didn't go because we trained on Wednesday and I needed to be in the best shape I could be yesterday to prepare for the Leicester game.

"I would loved to have been there but my coach Dean White was and he kept us updated."

Meanwhile, Mike Newell has pledged his future to Luton after being interviewed twice for the vacant manager's post at Leicester.