David Murphy believes Birmingham City's winter market signings can keep them in the Premiership this term.

The former Hibs fullback said: "This has been a difficult couple of weeks for me, I'd had a knee injury and now I'm finding my fitness again.

"And it was good to get my first game under my belt on Saturday. We should have had Derby dead and buried before they scored but I think there're enough players here to keep us in the Premier League.

"But now we need to get something from the West Ham match, it's the kind of game I came here to be playing in, we're not in a great position though and it has to be turned around sooner rather than later.

"But there's a decent set of players here and a good team spirit, which is a massive positive. If we can take that out on the field then we'll be fine. Once the new players gel with the rest of the team I think we'll get results."