With Dundee United debt-free following the sales of Ryan Gauld and Andrew Robertson last summer, McNamara is in the rare position of having some modest transfer funds at his disposal during this window and plans to use them to strengthen his attacking options.

Only last week, the Tannadice side clinched the signature of Arbroath striker Simon Murray for a fee of about 50,000. He will continue his development at the League Two leaders on loan until the end of the season, but the spending on the squad is unlikely to end there.

"If we see something, a bit like what we did with Charlie, then we can do that," McNamara said. "People say 'look what they paid', but for me that is a bargain. For me he was one of the best players in the Rangers academy and the boy is a talent. We ended up paying more to Queen's Park for Andy Robertson than we did to Rangers for Charlie."

McNamara, whose side take on their surprise fellow European contenders Hamilton Accies tomorrow night, is hardly a stranger to transfer intrigue at this time of year.

Twelve months ago, it was the likes of Gauld, Robertson and Gavin Gunning, all of whom remained until the summer. Now it is the turn of Gary Mackay-Steven, linked last week with Sheffield United, Stuart Armstrong and Nadir Ciftci, both of whom have been mentioned in dispatches with Celtic.

"For me, I am hoping it is more in than out," McNamara said. "That is me coming up to two years here now and every window has been the same.

"The same questions, just different players. It is something I obviously have to live with and is something that is testament to the kind of players I have here."

United would dearly love to add the same defensive parsimony currently being exhibited by Aberdeen to the attacking flair which has made United the SPFL Premiership's top scorers.

Robertson's replacement in the left-back role, Conor Townsend, who is on loan from the Scotland international's club Hull City, hinted last night that his move to Tannadice could be made a permanent one.

"I don't know what's going to come up, but I'll never say no," Townsend said. "The gaffer spoke earlier in the season about me maybe being able to stay and it's something I'd be open to.

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Dogged defender: Jacques Faty (right) battles for the ball with South Africa's George Maluleka during an international friendly at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. Photo: Getty Images

Sydney FC's summer of shopping in the transfer window has been kept in the family literally with new Senegalese signing Jacques Faty the cousin of their other new signing, Mickael Tavares.

Faty arrives at the club as a product of the famed French youth development school at Clairefontaine, with a decade of experience in Ligue 1 at clubs such as Rennes, Marseille, Sochaux and Bastia, along with a stint at Turkish club Sivasspor and most recently with Chinese Super League clubWuhan Zall.

The 30-year old will join the club as an injury-replacement for Sasa Ognenovski, meaning he will get four months to prove to coach Graham Arnold he is worthy of a permanent deal. "Jacques is a very experienced defender having played regularly in one of the top leagues in the world," Arnold said. "I am very pleased to be able to add him to our back four as I believe his defensive abilities and leadership qualities will prove extremely valuable to us throughout the remainder of the season."

Faty said he was "very happy to join this famous team", claiming he'd "heard a lot of good things about Sydney FC" and the A-League before committing to a stint in Australia. "I know [Alessandro] Del Piero did well in his time there," he said. "And I know some French players who play in the A-League, [Melbourne Victory duo] Matthieu Delpierre and Falid Ben Khalfallah, who have told me what a big club they are and how good the league is."

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He's also looking forward to linking up with his cousin for the rest of the season. "Our mothers are sisters and it will be a double motivation to play well for the team and for each other," he said. "We used to play together as children and also for Senegal together and now this is another great challenge for us."

Faty captained France's under-17 team to being world champions in 2001 before switching his international allegiances to the homeland of his parents and has the experience of having marked some of the best players in the world.

"I've played nine years in the top league in France and two years in Turkey," he said. "I won the World Cup with the French national under-17's playing against the likes of [Fernando] Torres, [Carlos] Tevez and Robinho so I have some experience I can bring to the team."

The Sky Blues are slowly rebuilding their squad after copping a run of four season-ending injuries just a few weeks apart. Arnold is still likely to look for another player to replace Corey Gameiro in attack. Faty, however, should solve the defensive and leadership problem left by Ognenovski's absence.

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Library Board members voted Thursday to terminate a contract with Evanston-based Continental Construction, Inc. to reconstruct a new window-wall after the company ceased communication with library officials and architect firm Tria Architecture, Director Jennie Mills said.

"We thought things were moving smoothly in December, but we have lost all contact with them," Mills said. "They aren't responding to communications through email, phone calls, and the architect hasn't been able to reach them either."

Mills said officials last heard from Continental on Dec. 18, and the company last worked on the wall Dec. 29.

"As of Jan. 1, they stopped reaching out to us," she said.

A message left Friday by The Herald-News with a Continental employee seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

Mills said about $13,000 has been paid to Continental for work done so far, but most of that money was paid to subcontractors. The only steps left for the project are drywall construction, painting, decorative details and the window glass installation.

"We're consulting with Tria Architecture and our attorney to clean up legal issues this left behind," Mills said, adding that staff is figuring out how to pay the remaining subcontractors who have completed work.

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The termination comes after Continental delayed the project several times, Mills said.

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