Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has said the club will be looking at making loan moves in the January transfer window rather than focusing on buying players.
The Eagles are currently 11th in the Premier League table with five wins from their first 15 games of the season, though Patrick Vieira's side have scored an average of just one goal per game - fewer than every team barring the bottom five.
Palace fans are hoping they'll see the team strengthened in the New Year when the winter transfer window opens, and while business is to be expected, Parish has warned it'll be a difficult market to operate in.
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“The January window is hard," the chairman told the Palace website on Friday.
"There are one or two things we’d like to do, probably more loans than buys. We would really look to the summer to do anything major. We have a good squad, I think the players are very good, and I think we have a good points tally.
“In January it’s quite nice to freshen things up a bit if we can, look at some places we feel we can improve with the manager. So we’re looking at situations there.
"I wouldn’t completely write-off anybody but post the World Cup it’s quite a dangerous market. That doesn’t say no. We have a few areas we’d like to improve on, and if we can do it we’ll do it.”
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