Boss Roy Keane says he doesn’t expect to be given all the proceeds from any players who might be sold in January. Striker Connor Wickham, rated at £10 million, has again been linked with Tottenham and Liverpool in recent days, while a number of other Premier League clubs including Manchester United and Chelsea are believed to have been monitoring the England U17 international.

Keane said: “The club might receive offers for some of our players in January, but whether I get that money remains to be seen.

“It sounds great to say ‘sell one player for X amount and we can bring in three or four’, but it doesn’t work that way because we’ve still got look at the wages we’ve got at the club.

“So, identifying three or four experienced players would be the easy part, it’s getting deals done - which we’ve not managed to do before - that’s the problem.

“We need to be careful that one, that everyone thinks I’ve got £10 million to spend on three or four players or on wages. I don’t think that’s how it’s going to work.”

Speaking at Tuesday’s AGM, chief executive Simon Clegg said that there had so far been no concrete bids for Wickham and that the club wants to hang on to him for as long as possible: “There are no offers on the table for Connor, there is a lot of speculation, a lot of hot air out there. Roy and myself are clear that we’d like to retain him, as indeed is the owner.”

Clegg also made it clear that there would be scope for additions to the squad next month: "Every window that we have gone into we have invested in the playing squad and I don't see that changing in January.

"If the manager wants to bring in players in January then he will have the opportunity to do that."

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