Harry Kewell is fully focused on the January transfer window before turning his attentions to the longer-term futures of some of his key Latics players.

Oldham have already added Coventry City winger Marcel Hilssner on loan for the rest of the season with Kewell hoping to bring at least a couple more new faces to Boundary Park this month.

But as he bids to be the first Latics boss to complete a full season at the helm since Lee Johnson in the 2013-14 campaign, Kewell will also have an eye on keeping the nucleus of his squad together for next season.

Having arrived with just eight players on the books, players were hastily brought in on a wide range of deals.

Arsenal loanee Harry Clarke’s deal expires on Wednesday with Latics looking to extend that until the end of the campaign while Jordan Barnett’s short-term contract is up at the end of the month, Kewell also indicating he wants to keep hold of the former Barnsley man.

Looking towards the summer, 14-goal top goalscorer Conor McAleny was among those brought to the club on a one-year contract which expires at the end of the season.

With plenty on his agenda until deadline day on February 1, Kewell says it is at that point that he will turn his attentions to keeping hold of his key men beyond the end of the current campaign.

“We came into the job and the first thing we had to do was get a squad together,” he told The Oldham Times.

“We’ve done that. Now we’re trying to get an identity and we’ve moved in the January market and we’re trying to strengthen in that.

“After that market closes that’s when we start to look at all the other prospects and we decide how we want to evolve this club.”