"We have three players having treatment and you only need one or two of them not be fit for Saturday and then you are down to your last 16 or 17 players. Dearden told the Nottingham Evening Post on Tuesday.
Martin Gritton, Simon Bown and Jason White all picked up knocks at the wekend, and Dearden knows all to well that his squad needs to be added to "I know we need to add a player to the squad because you are going to pick up injuries and we have to have a bit of cover. It is possible I might get it done before the weekend, if not it will have to be early next week.
"It is the same lad I have been looking to sign for a few weeks but it depends on his club's injury situation and whether they will let him go."