Last Updated: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:05
Derby boss Nigel Clough has not given up hope of signing Blackpool centre-back Shaun Barker or Crewe defender John Brayford.
The sale of Tyrone Mears to Burnley this week has added £500,000 to the Rams coffers and Clough may now use it to try and persuade both parties, Blackpool and Crewe, to sell their respective players.
"We are still talking (to Blackpool) and, hopefully, we will be going back in the next few days," he told the Derby Telegraph.
"We have made offers for both players (Barker and Brayford), which have been rejected, so we are in the process of drawing up fresh offers which will go in as soon as we can."