Millwall are understood to be a number of Championship clubs eyeing up a loan move for Tottenham Hotspur teenager Troy Parrott.
Parrott, an 18-year-old Republic of Ireland youth striker, has been on the fringes of the first team under Jose Mourinho but might be allowed out to accelerate his development, as Harry Kane did with time at Leyton Orient, who he now sponsors, and Millwall.
Gary Rowett, heading into his first full season in charge on the back of a run towards the play-offs since taking charge in October, has already brought back Ryan Woods from Stoke for a second long-term loan spell.
But he is trying to play his cards close to his chest on what might happen next, reports Stoke on Trent Live.
He told News At Den: "I think what everyone is accepting and respecting is that they haven't got as long a timescale to get deals done. Also I don't think people are going to be able to claim quite such lucrative deals. If someone gets offered a good deal, I think agents and players are taking that a lot more seriously than maybe they would have previously.
"We've done the Woods one but that doesn't necessarily mean we're going to do everything really quickly. We've got a couple of deals at the moment that we're part-way through, but any of those could fall on their face at any minute or they could get done at any minute.
"It's as simple as that. It's very difficult to pinpoint a timescale.
"I'm not going to discount in or out any name. There are going to be a lot of names mentioned that we genuinely haven't looked at currently.
"That's not to say that the likes of Alex [Aldridge, head of recruitment] hasn't made contact with a number of players' agents just to see what the situation is.
"From my point of view some of the names out there are not necessarily people we're chasing or interested in at the moment."
