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Andy McGilvray

Hamilton Accies boss says loan deals aren't likely as he insists January window was a good one

Hamilton Accies boss Stuart Taylor says loan signings aren't likely but insists the club have done well to bring in four players during the January transfer window.

Accies signed defender Dan O'Reilly, winger Ellis Brown, forward Kai Kennedy on loan from Rangers and right-back Steve Lawson, who was last in action with Livingston last season.

Taylor says there were several targets that didn't want to come to the club, but that he achieved a better balance to the squad, and believes Hamilton have come out of the window stronger for it.

He said: "At this moment in time, today, no [we're not looking to bring in loans].

"I think we've had a busy window, in terms of coming in - we've had two going out, four coming in - and I think someone said to me that if we had done one more going out it would have been a record for this club for doing so much business in the January window.

"I think that's a positive. There was a lot of hard work that went into it, it wasn't just a couple of days before the window.

"We've been working hard since I came in, and making sure we get the right bodies in and the right positions in.

Accies boss Stuart Taylor says loan deals aren't likely (SNS Group)

"We have lost out on quite a few players, but there is competition out there, and there are other clubs who are interested in the players that we're after.

"But we gave it our best shot to go and bring the players in, trust me on that. We gave it our best shot to get every single player we were after.

"We managed, and I'm delighted, to get the ones in that we got in, and the ones we didn't get in, we move on from. They didn't want to come to the club for whatever reason, so we move on."

Taylor added: "I'm very happy with the four that I brought in.

"Something that was really important in this window was that there was a little bit of an imbalance to the squad when I came in at first, so the big thing that we had to do in this window was to get a better balance about the squad, to make sure we had players covering certain positions that we were short of.

Kai Kennedy, one of the stars brought in during January, scored in Saturday's 1-1 draw with Ayr United (SNS Group)

"I think that was the most important thing for this window, that we made sure we had a balance about this squad and we made sure we had players who could play in certain areas of the pitch."

Taylor says Lewis Spence and Matthew Shiels were among a full squad who trained on Tuesday, and hopes that gives him a selection headache for Saturday's trip to Raith Rovers.

He said: "For the first time since I came to the club we've had everybody out of the physio room and in training yesterday.

"We have one that we're assessing but it's still the best position I've been in that we've got one player who might be in doubt for the weekend, but everybody else has come through the session really well."

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