NEIL Lennon will carry on regardless with his rebuilding plans at Wanderers despite mounting speculation of a takeover at the club.

The Whites boss insists he cannot allow talk of outside investment to affect his plans in the transfer market – partly because he does not know whether they will materialise at all.

Rumours suggest both Irish and Israel-based consortia have held discussions about investing in the club over the last couple of weeks.

But Lennon is putting it to the back of his mind as his side head for play-off chasing Brentford tomorrow potentially without striker Emile Heskey, who was suffering from some muscular problems in midweek.

“I’m kept abreast of what’s going on but at the moment we could be close or a million miles away,” he told The Bolton News. “There is interest and there has been for quite some time but there’s no confirmation of who it will be or if there is going to be any.

“It would be welcome and help all aspects of the club, obviously, but we will wait and see.

“I hope – I think – that we’re in a position to build regardless of what happens. We’re planning as if there’s not going to be any investment.

“If there is, it will reshape our thinking, but at the moment we’re just working away on the budget we’ve planned for.”

Lennon wants his side to be more clinical in their first game at Griffin Park since the mid-1990s after watching a raft of opportunities go begging in recent weeks.

The manager brushed off criticism of his team’s display in the 1-1 draw against Charlton and called for a grandstand finish to the season.

“I want three wins, simple as that,” he said. “I wasn’t disappointed with the performance on Tuesday. I’m not big on stats but against Blackpool we had 22 attempts on goal and against Charlton 23, with 60 per cent possession.

“Now when I came in people were telling me we didn’t have enough of the ball and we weren’t creating enough chances, and now we are.

“We’re not taking enough opportunities but if we’d have won three or four I don’t think Charlton could have complained.

“When you don’t win everything gets analysed to death – the performance, the formation. But I was happy with the players’ application and with some of the football going forward.

“Some of it was a bit loose but that’s the inconsistency that has been there all season, not just in the last few weeks.”