West Brom boss Sam Allardyce has warned interested clubs eyeing the best players of his relegated team.

Allardyce highlighted goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and midfielder Matheus Pereira as examples of players he feels are worth "a lot of money".

Allardyce said at his press conference ahead of the Liverpool contest: "There'll always be somebody watching, now we're relegated, there'll always be someone saying 'what cherry can we try to pick out of West Brom?'

"Well, there's some cherries to pick but you won't pick them cheap. I think there's a lot of them worth a lot of money. I've had one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League (Johnstone), without any question of a doubt.

"I've worked with Pick (Jordan Pickford) at Everton who's now the England number one, and he's right up there. You can mention all the foreign goalkeepers, he's just as good as them. His distribution has got better and better.

"But because he's Sam Johnstone in a struggling club at West Brom, he hasn't got the credit - apart from the fact Gareth (Southgate) has seen what he can do, and knows he's good enough to go in that England squad, and certainly be good enough to go to the Euros.

"And then there's other players. The emergence of Matheus Pereira is no shock, certainly to me. When you saw that goal against Arsenal, what does that tell you about him? It tells you he is, without any question of a doubt, of the right quality to play in the Premier League.

"I shouldn't really be talking about that, but it's just a fact. I'm not doing anything other than just telling what's going to happen, and what will happen to a club that gets relegated.

"But no cherry-picking, I don't think. If anybody comes, the club would only let them go if they get what they value them at, and they should certainly value those two players very highly - and more, in fact. But just those two particularly I think have stood out recently for me."