Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock will not confirm speculation linking Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis with a January move. "I think we've made offers for a number of strikers," he said. "We are short of attacking options and with Chamakh missing we've lacked that physical presence.
"So we've been looking at a couple of players from home and abroad and we're hoping to get one of those over the line in the next couple of weeks.
"We have some good strikers at the club but we have to be able to adapt and change the system, so we have to try and find a striker that will give us another dimension."
Warnock was keen on bringing in new players when the window opens, but admitted doing business in the January was not always the easiest of tasks.
"We'd like to get business done as quickly as possible," he said. "You can't move quickly enough at times because all sorts of things happen so there's one two complications.
"The window doesn't open until the third, but I'd like to get one or two in for the FA Cup, but we are struggling to get anything over the line earlier than that.
"At least we have a week after that before we face Tottenham, where hopefully we can do some business.
"But sometimes you do not get your first choice and you have to keep going."
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