Shaun Maloney hopeful Celtic can add up to three players before deadline
Assistant manager Shaun Maloney is hoping Celtic can bring in up to three more players before the transfer window closes on Monday.
Czech Republic striker Tomas Cvancara has been recruited on loan from Borussia Monchengladbach while Mexico right-back Julian Araujo has arrived from Bournemouth, also temporarily.
Many Hoops fans remain critical of the Parkhead board for a relative lack of new faces in the squad as the William Hill Premiership title race turns towards the home straight.
Martin O'Neill returned for a second spell as interim boss this season on January 5 following the departure of French boss Wilfried Nancy. And the reigning champions, who qualified for the Europa League knockout play-offs - where they will face Stuttgart - with a 4-2 win over Utrecht at Parkhead on Thursday night, are in third place in the league, two points behind Rangers and six behind leaders Hearts.
Celtic have been linked with Frosinone's French winger Fares Ghedjemis and Dunajska Streda's Hungarian forward Damir Redzic, among others.
Ahead of the visit of Falkirk on Sunday, former Celtic striker Maloney revealed the current state of play in terms of potential new signings.
"I think the difficulty for the club is that we've obviously changed manager," said Maloney.
"Completely changed structure to the previous guy so I understand then that there is a period where the targets completely change, so really happy with the two that we brought in.
"I think if we bring in another two or three, it would be a massive, massive help, but they have to be the right ones.
"There is no need to bring in numbers. It has to be the right type of player for what we need and what probably the team's lacking.
"The two that we brought in, I really like, but hopefully we can do two or three more.
"The work's been done. In fairness to the board, they're there and ready to try and get the deals done and hopefully that happens. It won't be through a lack of effort.
"We've had to do a lot of work in a quick period of time because of the management change but I've been really happy with the list of players that we've been given and the types of players. So, yeah, really hopeful that we can all get that done because it's not always on the board.
"There's things that we have to do. We have to speak to players, we have to get the players to sort of have a desire to come to work with us. So it's a collective really to get this done and we hope it turns out positive."
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