Town boss Roy Keane has refused to comment on weekend claims that he made a loan enquiry regarding Hull City left-back or left midfielder Kevin Kilbane. The veteran Irish international is also being linked with Celtic and Bolton Wanderers.
Keane said: "I think it’s so wrong for managers to talk about players at other clubs. We’ve put in enquiries to a number of clubs about different players and we’re getting different feedback and that will continue over the next couple of days.
"It’s wrong to discuss players who are under contract, it’s not fair on the clubs, not fair on the players. We’ll wait and see, as I keep saying.”
The Blues boss says movement is more likely towards the end of the transfer window on February 1st: "It’s very quiet at the moment. We’ve had a busy time with the games but one or two phone calls have been put out and we’re still waiting for some feedback.
"If there are any players coming into the club or going, I expect it to be only one or two. I don’t expect major action here this week, but we know that one or two players could make a big difference to us and we’re still hopeful.
"I’m still talking to other managers, that goes on all the time. I was talking to an assistant manager the other day and we’ll know in the next couple of days if we’re going to carry on with the deals that we’re interested in and try and get them finalised.”
Keane says there have been enquiries regarding members of his squad with one move on the cards: "There may be one going on. It's a loan at the moment.”
The Blues are still wading through the paperwork relating to the signing of 19-year-old American trialist Devann Yao. Some of the clubs Yao was with as a youngster — Metz, Livorno, Pisa and St Mirren — are due compensation and the club are continuing to work through issues relating to that.
The winger is due to play in a behind-closed-doors reserves friendly later in the week after recovering from the bad cut to the calf he received in the Luton reserves game before Christmas.
New goalkeeper Brian Murphy may also be involved in that match if he is over his ankle injury. The Irishman is in with a chance of being on the bench against West Brom on Tuesday.
Town are set to be without skipper Jon Walters for the next couple of games due to the hamstring problem he picked up at Southampton, while Jon Stead will be back from his four-match ban.