JOE EDWARDS insists he does not feel “panic” at Millwall’s lack of signings so far in the transfer window.
At the time of writing, the Lions are one of ten Championship clubs yet to recruit anyone in the January market.
The Lions want to bring in some new faces this month but now have just two weeks to get all of their business done.
Edwards said work is continuing to get some deals over the line.
He told NewsAtDen: “We do want to be active and we are working. There’s a reason why deadline day has become such a well-known day because activity towards the end of the window is far more frequent than it is in the early part because there’s a better idea of what the squad needs or a better idea of what prices clubs are happy to let players go for.
“We’ve known since before January that we wanted to do stuff and we needed to strengthen our squad and we’ve been working hard towards it. I would have loved to have people in the door earlier but, at the same time, the fact we’re halfway through and haven’t done one yet does not panic me or surprise me as I know what a difficult period January is to get these deals done.
“If you’re the big clubs that can throw around millions and millions of pounds to get them done then I get it. But for us it’s not that easy. So we continue to just work away and hope that in the next couple of weeks it looks different.”
Edwards also reflected on events on the pitch where Millwall enjoyed a really strong opening 30 minutes against Middlesbrough but faded as the match went on.
The Millwall head coach said: “The way we started the game was very front-footed but with quite a nice composure about us that we’re still trying to do a lot of stuff we’ve been improving on lately with build-up from the back with Matty Sarkic.
“We’re doing the build-up with enough intensity and urgency that we’re still getting from the bottom end of the pitch to the final third quite quickly, which is what we want to be. We don’t want to become a sterile possession team.
“Any time they tried to clear it or build something of their own, we were aggressive and kept taking it back from them at a real high intensity. Looking back it probably became an intensity that is definitely not sustainable for 90 minutes for any team.
“We definitely suffered that a bit in the second half that we couldn’t sustain the physical intensity and that, combined with Boro growing into the game, the match turned a bit.”