Carlisle United boss Keith Millen wants to add to his expanding squad, especially if he can find players with the wow factor.
Pleased with the business he has done so far – three players in – Millen things he needs one or two more.
He told the club website: “My focus more is to see if there’s a player or two that we maybe don’t expect, or one you think wow, we can’t turn that one down. That’s more my thinking now.
“They need to be players who are really going to come in and make a difference.
“I’ve said from day one that we don’t need numbers, we’ve got a good squad, but if I can bring in something a little bit different then I’ll look at it, and the club are allowing me to look at it.
“If they tell me that’s it done now, no problem, but they haven’t said that. That means that while the market is open, I’m open to what’s out there, but it does need to be something that will help us to keep improving.”
He added: “It still has to be the right type of player, the right profile. I’m not going to change the way we play or what we’ve been doing the last two months, but if there was someone that stood out who we had a chance of, I would look at that.
“I’m not going to say we need this or that, it’s more the quality of player that might become available.”
Millen says he will also have to deal with players who might want to move on and admitted that the squad is becoming too big.
“Generally you find when you’ve brought players in that agents, clubs, players pick up on it.
“They start to ask – have I still got a future, where am I, where are they in my plans. I’ll always tell them where I see it, whether I see them competing, whether I see their pathway blocked, what’s best for them, certainly the younger lads especially.
“If they’re not on the bench for the first team they need to go and play men’s football, for their own development. We will be looking at that as a club.
“We need to get some players out and playing, because the squad’s suddenly becoming too big.”
