"I can name six players we've been linked with who I've never heard of!
"I haven't requested a striker at all.
"The window has always been there for us because of European football.
"When you go to assess who you can get for European football you find the options are very few because the kind of players we want play for teams who are in Europe, and so they're no use to us. We won't be buying six strikers!"
And this on Di Canio:
“We haven’t made any approach for Di Canio, not since last January.
“If we had done it last January, it would have been justified and we would have got the benefit of it this season, but not now. Di Canio is a great player and I wish we had really pursued him last January when we wanted him. It's another year on and the moment has gone."