Newcastle United will struggle to make any top quality signings this winter according to manager Alan Pardew.
The Magpies have been linked with plenty of players already this January and although it has been revealed that the club wants a new central defender as well as a striker, Pardew says it is a very tough market to be a part of and is not confident of having a successful period.
"It's difficult. If one of the big players makes a move, it stimulates the market, but it looks like everybody is jostling as usual and hopefully we are not going to have this last-day scenario, or the last few days, that we had in the last window which really affected us.
"We have made it clear to all the clubs that if there is any business to be done with us, you had better get in quickly because obviously we are stained from last year.
"But looking around and speaking to other managers it's very difficult to get value in this window and we are all a bit wary of that.""(Chief scout) Graham Carr does a terrific job for us, as his scouting team does and as my staff do, so on that side of it we are really trying to cover everything we can," he said.
