Manager Mick McCarthy says he, assistant Terry Connor and their scouting staff have a list of potential targets as long as the Blues boss’s arm as they look to add to their squad during the January transfer window.
McCarthy, who added Leeds defender Patrick Kisnorbo on loan yesterday, said: "I need to get some players in, we’re talking about loads of them. We’ve been sat in there with [new scouts] Dave Bowman, Taff [Ian Evans] and [chief scout] Steve McCall and we’re going through a list of names as long as my arm."
The Town boss was asked whether there had been any developments regarding striker DJ Campbell, who is back with QPR, and also Richie Wellens, who was on loan with the Blues from Leicester earlier in the season. But as ever he was keeping his cards close to his chest: "I won’t talk about individual players who are at other people’s clubs.”
However, he did feel that life at Loftus Road will have been dramatically affected by their 1-0 defeat of Chelsea earlier in the week: "Everything will have changed at QPR this morning, although I don’t know because I haven’t spoken to Harry since.
"I saw them on the TV this morning saying it’s changed - Harry might be able to get players in, that will have given then a lift, that he’ll probably be looking to have Shaun Wright-Phillips playing in behind Jamie Mackie, it’s not so bad after all, they’ve just beaten Chelsea, the Champions League winners. But they’ll still want to have a look at DJ, I’m certain."