BURNLEY goalkeeper Danny Coyne has been confined to an oxygen chamber in a drastic bid to be fit to face Crewe.

Coyne is struggling with a hamstring injury that forced him to withdraw from both of Wales' World Cup qualifying games in the past week.

And in a frantic race against time, Clarets boss Steve Cotterill has ordered his number one to spend the week in a pressurised chamber that pumps the body with pure oxygen to promote quicker healing to damaged muscles.

"Danny has been in an oxygen chamber for two days and we won't make a decision on him until the last-minute," explained Cotterill.

"The chamber pumps pure oxygen into the blood stream and to the injured parts. He does two 'dives' each day and it's something that's worked for me in the past, so I'm hoping it will be the case again.

"We used them at Cheltenham when you didn't think players had a chance of being fit and four or five 'dives' later, they recovered.

"So they do work and Danny is the first one we've needed to use it on. Hopefully that will see us through."

Brian Jensen stands by to deputise should Coyne miss his first game since arriving in the summer.

However, the Clarets are definitely forced into one outfield change tomorrow, with midfielder Micah Hyde suspended for the Turf Moor clash.

The Jamaican midfielder starts a three-match ban following his sending off against Gillingham, further limiting the options at Cotterill's disposal.

But the cash-strapped Clarets chief insists he will only add new players to his threadbare squad when quality reveals itself, despite chairman Barry Kilby's claim that "money is available".

Cotterill said: "We've got to cope and we will cope - that's the bottom line.

"I've had a word with the chairman because you have to be careful about how you do your business these days.

"People don't know whether we've got a pound or a million pounds and I just think the chairman got asked questions about the size of the squad and whether he was going to give me any money.

"But it all depends on how much money you've got, and whether it's of any value to you now.

"If you want somebody now, invariably they will cost a transfer fee, so trying to get a transfer fee and a wage out of a certain amount of money is very difficult."

Cotterill, who has left no stone unturned in his relentless pursuit of new blood, added: "Loans are tricky as well because you have to try and improve your team if you bring them in.

"You can take in loads, but when you look back over your managerial career, how many loans are successful and how many are money wasted?

"We simply haven't got money to waste, so anything we do is going to take time."