Ian Holloway said that he is not done adding to his Swindon Town squad in the transfer market, and did not rule out the possibility of signing another player on loan.
With less than two weeks remaining in the transfer window, Swindon have assembled a squad of 25 players, which Holloway intimated earlier in the window that he was hoping for a squad of roughly that number.
However, Town will spend the vast majority of the first half of the season without Gavin Kilkenny and Fletcher Holman, and Joel McGregor and Harry Smith are still over a month away from recovering from injury.
Swindon are still working to add to their squad, with another attacker chief among their targets in the final days of the window.
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He said: “We are still not there yet, but we will keep going until the end of the transfer window, but we are still not there yet.
“If we didn’t have the injuries that we do, then I would be close, but I would still be after more; not necessarily more numbers, but more in the areas that I believe that we need.”
The arrival of Anthony Munda on Monday from Newcastle United saw Swindon use their fifth matchday loan slot.
Holloway said that he would have no problem with bringing in more loanees and leaving them out of the squad if he felt that the right player became available.
He said: “If I need six or seven, then I will be ruthless. ‘You're not playing this week because I don't need you.’ And if their clubs don't like it, I won't take them. It is quite simple. I've got to teach them what they need to do to get in our team.
“Is there anybody out there on frees that we might be able to take? There still is, so we're having another look, another batch, because that might change as well.
“We have still not got [Joe] Snowdon, he'll be back. He should be back in training full time next week, and [Sam] Inwood should be back next week training full time too.
“I'm not going to stop until I get what I think we need, and then the window will close, and then we'll be getting ready for the next window, because last year, that window didn't help us.
“[Do you have a preference for permanent signings?] No, not really.”
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