By Chris Bevan

Kirkland broke his finger in March

Chris Kirkland will consider a permanent move to West Brom - if the club stays in the Premiership.

The 24-year-old Liverpool keeper has been told he will have to leave Anfield for regular first-team football and is unsure where he will play next season.

Kirkland is currently on loan at The Hawthorns and his agent Colin Gordon told BBC Sport: "I think if West Brom stay up then they will be interested.

"It will be weighed up in the summer, with what his other opportunities are."

West Brom are currently second from bottom in the Premiership table.

Kirkland is out of action until the end of the season because of a broken finger sustained in March and Gordon says his future will not be decided until the end of the current campaign.

Chris has got to go on and become a regular somewhere and play the game to show the ability he has got Chris Kirkland's agent Colin Gordon

"It is very difficult to say where he will be playing at the moment. We will only know that in the summer," he added.

"As it stands at the moment, he is West Brom's player until the end of the season then he will return to Liverpool. He is injured so there will not be any progress until then.

"We will have to wait and see what happens with West Brom over the next few weeks."

Kirkland joined Liverpool for �6m in 2001 but his first-team chances at Liverpool have been limited, firstly by injury but, more recently, by the arrival of Jose Reina from Villarreal in July 2005.

Gordon said: "It is not frustrating for Chris, it is life.

"Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez decided that he wanted to bring in his own goalkeeper and that happens in football.

"Chris has got to go on and become a regular somewhere and play the game to show the ability he has got.