Wanderers bosses take advantage of a free Saturday for the team by running the rule over possible targets. Colin Todd travels to Scotland to watch Motherwell left back Rob McKinnon while Roy McFarland runs the rule over Hull City's Dean Windass.

AS their bid to bring in fresh talent continues, Wanderers are frustrated in a bid to sign £2.5million-rated 24-year-old midfielder Eoin Jess who is regarded as one of Scotland's most coveted young talents.

THE Burnden Park balance sheet reveals losses of more than £500,000 but chairman Gordon Hargreaves was undaunted as he backed the club's continuing search for new players with hard cash. "Football is the priority here," he pledged. "Our next target is to establish ourselves in the Premier League and we will invest."

STRIKER Mixu Paatelainen is pencilled in for the following night's reserve game - his first competitive action since suffering hernia damage in the opening day game at Wimbledon. Meanwhile Wanderers begin talks with OFK Belgrade midfielder Dragan Curcic.

OWEN Coyle's proposed move to Dundee United is revived as the negotiations begin again a week after the Wanderers striker turned down personal terms offered by the Scottish First Division club.

WANDERERS agree a £1million-plus deal for Partisan Belgrade's 23-year-old international midfielder Sasa Curcic and sell striker Owen Coyle to Dundee United for £400,000.

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