Barnsley FC players are attracting interest, confirms Adam Murray

Cardiff City remain in the market to sign forward Cauley Woodrow - although it is understood that the rival valuations of the player between the respective clubs are currently some way apart, with other players having also been the subject of interest.

The club's recruitment team are also working 'exceptionally busy' working on some incoming deals, according to Murray.

Murray said: "There is interest in a couple of our players. When you have a season like we did last season, we ended up creating a miracle at the end and proving everyone wrong. We had a lot of players that performed to a high level, especially in the style we play.

"There has been a lot of players on club's radars in the past few months and I'd imagine until Friday, it will be the same.

"We want to keep our best players at the football club, but at the end of the day, we all know this is a business as well as a football environment."

On the potential for new signings coming into Oakwell - and the prospect of another forward, he continued: "The guys are really busy. I know the recruitment guys, Dane (Murphy) and the board are exceptionally busy at the minute.

"We have spoken to a lot of players and targets who we think can make us better. We are still hoping before the window closes that we can add bodies to the group."

Specifically on the search for an additional forward option, he said: "If it is the right one. I know there has been a huge amount of talk that we need another striker and in the perfect world, if the perfect product of a centre-forward popped up, then we'd take it. Until that happens, we need to focus on what we have got in the building.

Meanwhile, despite the uncertainty ahead of this week's deadline, Murray has stressed that leading the Reds for a second time on an interim basis is far less problematic than last autumn - when he was fighting a 'lot more fires' in his words in his first temporary spell in charge.

Murray, who has been preparing the team for Saturday's home game with Bristol City, said: "I think we are in a much better place now as a group of people and a team. I think the last time I was in this position, there were a lot more fires to put out and we had a lot more to do.

"This time, it is more tweaking a few things and get us hopefully scoring a few more goals and keeping the good work that Gerhard (Struber) had put in over the last few months. There are big differences in the situation. I think the whole club is a lot more positive than we were this time last year.

"Like I said last time, if the club came to me and asked me, I would have a decision to make. But the role I am in at the minute, the (coaching) role I have been in with the first team, I am more happy being in that and I enjoy working with the group of players in either of the roles. My focus has to be on the players and not me."