Millwall transfer chief: We don’t want to sell any of players in January transfer window

Millwall director of football Steve Gallen has spelled out that the Championship club do not want to sell any of their prize assets in the January transfer window.

England Elite international Romain Esse has been linked with Crystal Palace and their sporting director Dougie Freedman has been in attendance at The Den during this campaign.

Esse signed a new long-term contract in the summer but does have a release clause if a club hits that figure.

“We don’t want to sell anybody in January,” Gallen told Millwall TV. “There’s nobody in the football club saying we need to make a sale. We want to keep our good players but we also realise if they are doing well that there was a lot of interest after the Leeds and Burnley games in our players.

“It’s great. I get a scouting list sent to me after every game. I’m tracking who is coming to watch us. I want the stand full of European clubs and Premier League clubs coming to watch our players. There are quite a few coming and that is good for our football club.

“We realise eventually we will sell one or two players and then replace them with one or two to try and make us sustainable. But we also want to win football matches and be up around the top of the league. No-one more than me wants to be winning games and being up there challenging.”