BLACKBURN Rovers boss Paul Lambert has been given the green light by owners Venky’s to bring in the New Year targets he has identified to give his squad the help he feels it needs.

Lambert has been working closely with his coaching team and head of recruitment Tommy Johnson to pinpoint the players he believes could make a difference.

But after watching Rovers go down to their second straight defeat at Bolton Wanderers on Monday he insisted he will not make signings for signings sake.

“The group needs help, there’s no two ways about it,” said Lambert.

“They need a bit of help in a few areas in the team so that’s what we’ll try to do. Whether it can happen, we’ll have to wait and see.

“The January market is a dangerous market and the other teams have got to want to let the players go.

“But we have been told we can go and try and make things happen.

“But what I don’t want to do is bring in someone who isn’t going to contribute or is going to find it hard to get into the side.

“We have to get players who are going to get into the team.”

Lambert will be able to pay fees for permanent and loan signings next month after Rovers’ Financial Fair Play embargo was lifted.

But with the club determined to avoid going back under the embargo he will work almost entirely in the loan market during the January transfer window.

Lambert knows that will make his attempts to bolster his ranks a little harder.

But he has confirmed that he has already drawn up a shortlist of potential new recruits.

“We’ve spoken about certain guys,” said Lambert, speaking before the loss to Bolton which left Rovers 16th in the Championship.

“But the loan market is never an easy market to work in, especially January, because let’s be honest, nobody wants to lose their best players in January. That’s the reality of it.

“And I don’t want to bring people in who can’t make an impact in our team. I want to bring people who can make an impact. I don’t want someone who is just going to come in and sit around and not really have a chance to stake a claim.

“But there are names that we have discussed and if we can get one or two in here it will certainly help us.”

Lambert won the Champions League with Borussia Dortmund and, after leaving Aston Villa in February, spent time watching a number of managers in the country where he enjoyed his greatest success as a player.

But for now he will not be returning to Germany to make signings.

Lambert said: “Not many German players come overseas. One or two do and I know QPR have got the lad from Union Berlin (Sebastian Polter) but there’s not many who come over because the league they have over there is that strong.

“It’s a market that I know pretty well but it’s unlikely in January. But summer time you never know.

“One thing can help is that the mentality between German and British players is pretty similar.

“We’ll have to wait and see what transpires.”