Money’s ready to help his rookies

Richard Money, in the wake of the FA Cup defeat by Millwall last night, has hinted that he may strengthen his Walsall squad further during this month’s transfer window.

Money has added to the Saddlers midfield options since the window opened by bringing in Lee Holmes on loan from Derby County plus free agent Martin Brittain, but there may be more new faces arriving.

The injuries to Tommy Mooney and Michael Ricketts means the manager is short on experience up front, with Alex Nicholls at just 20 being his oldest fit striker.

Money has been very impressed with the efforts of his young guns, but admits they may need assistance.

“Maybe at the minute we have one or two young players too many,” he said.”At times in big games you’re relying on people being in the right place at the right time, but they’re brave and they’re learning and they showed a lot of quality against Millwall.

“One of the things that you’ve got to gain from defeat is that you’ve got to use the knowledge from that and make sure you make the right decisions. So I think we do need a little bit of help.”

Money may again look to the loan market, after borrowing the likes of Ricketts and Peter Sweeney to good effect this season.

However, much may depend upon the impending transfer of Danny Fox with regards available funds.

“We’ve accepted a bid from Colchester United and given Danny permission to talk to them,” added Money.

“Those talks were going to happen on Monday and Tuesday and obviously with the Millwall match to prepare for I haven’t really taken too much interest outside that.”