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Crystal Palace looking at ‘next dozen’ transfer targets - Allardyce

Sam Allardyce admits Crystal Palace are now onto their second lot of transfer targets this month.

The Eagles have been desperate to bring in some fresh faces in the January window but have only succeeded in landing Jeffrey Schlupp from Leicester City.

After looking at and unsuccessfully approaching a list of names, Allardyce has revealed that Palace will now target the next group of names on the South London club's hit-list.

"I've had that many players on my desk the last two weeks, looked at that many reports, watched so many games, that in the end we got them to file all that [list of players] down.

"The ones we've already done that on are not coming now, so we're down to the next level on what's available and who might come. We've done a good dozen [approaches] or so, and we've got one [signing, Schlupp].

"We thought we'd have got more but we haven't, so we're on the next dozen or so players we filed down, and will look carefully, to not panic in this moment.

"We're going to have two new players to come back at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations, Bakary Sako and Wilfried Zaha, which will help make a difference."

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