Crewe have already tried Eugen Bopp and Steven Shumacher on the left and although they did alright the two players favour the centre of midfield.
Byron Moore can play on the left but the young midfielder picked up a knee injury against Hull City and Coach Steve Holland feels that the club need to bolster the left hand side of the midfield.
Technical Director Dario Gradi told the official website www.crewealex.net "We are looking to bring in a left sided player on emergency loan. It won't happen before the deadline because we need to iron one or two things out financially. That is proving to be the stumbling block at the moment.
"He is on wages that we can get nowhere near and we wouldn't even try too. We are looking towards his club to agree to pay a larger percentage of his wages. From a footballing side of things, everything seems fine. It is just the difficulty with the finances."