Town boss Mick McCarthy expects Premier League clubs to have players who are surplus to requirements available on emergency loans in the weeks to come.
The January transfer window closed earlier this week with Irish youngster Dylan Connolly the only addition, but the Blues manager has said that with games coming thick and fast he will utilise the emergency loan provision, which is available until the final Thursday in March and allows Football League clubs to bring players in on loans of up to 93 days.
"I spoke to TC this morning, we just sat down and had a discussion about it,” he said. "We’ve got three games in a week coming up and we’ve got 18 fit players, so it’s important that we get the most out of them in every game.
"Most of them have played a good chunk of the games that we’ve played already. But there is that emergency loan option.
"I think now that the window is shut, there’ll be Premier League clubs that might have somebody coming back from injury, there might be somebody surplus to requirements, so they might give them out for a month. We’ll see. But at the moment, we’re OK, we’re fine as we are.”
He says he wasn’t overly concerned by the transfer window's closure, having known that none of his players would be moving on.
"I’m not bothered at all, there was none of them that were ever going,” he added. "I spoke to an agent yesterday who [looks after] some of the players and I think maybe they were wondering whether anything was going to happen.
"And he said ‘No, I’ve spoken to your gaffer, he’s says it’s not happening and I actually believe him’.
"Some managers at some clubs say it’s not happening, it’s not going to happen, we’re not selling anybody just to drive the price up.
"But he said he didn’t believe for one minute that I was doing that. It was ‘No, they’re not going’ and that was the case.
"The only reason I thought I was glad to see the back of the window was so that nobody asked me about it, but now you have!”
He added: "Thankfully some people actually believe what they read when I said ‘None of them are for sale, none of the players are leaving’.
"I get loads of text messages about players, about other players, asking if I want to have a look at them.
"‘This one’s coming up, he can go, they’ll let him out on loan’. ‘How much is he on?’, ’28 grand a week’, ‘Thanks very much, he probably isn’t for me’.
"I got a whole lot of that, which is normal. I got quite a lot of people sending me left-backs in case we lost Tyrone Mings and that was about it.
"There weren’t many putting centre forwards to me in case I lost Murph or Didz or midfield players in case I lost Bish. Ty was the talk of the town, wasn’t he?
"That was about it. ‘Are you doing anything?’, ‘No, we’re not, we’ve got 20-odd players’.”