Blues boss Paul Jewell says that with so many new players coming into the club, exits are inevitable. Town are particularly overloaded with strikers with Tamás Priskin and Jason Scotland appearing amongst the favourites to move on.
Jewell said: "With us bring so many players in, there will be players that are available, if it suits us and it suits the players. But my phone hasn’t rung.
"It’s always the way that you can be overloaded in certain areas. In terms of strikers, we’ve got Tamás, we’ve got Duke, we’ve got Chops, now we’ve got Daryl Murphy, we’ve got Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, who can play up there, and Jason Scotland.
"We probably have got too many strikers, although I think Joe Royle once said you can’t have too many strikers.
"There might well be players leaving, on loan or permanently, I honestly don’t know. But the only players who aren’t under consideration at the moment are Lee Martin and Tommy Smith because they’re suspended.”
Priskin appears unlikely to move on in the short-term having suffered a recurrence of the injury which curtailed his 2010/11: "Tamás hurt his knee in training on Friday. He had that knee injury when he was on loan at Swansea and missed a couple of games in the summer with Hungary. He’s training with the kids trying to get his fitness back. He’s here but he’s not 100% fit yet.”
Jaime Peters and Shane O’Connor have also been in training with the youngsters, a further indication that the duo aren’t in Jewell’s plans. Lee Martin has joined them in recent days but as a result of the Blues’ boss’s annoyance at his disciplinary issues following his red card at Peterborough.
Jewell says there have been no further developments regarding Portsmouth target Grant Leadbitter, who he confirmed will continue to skipper the side: "I’ve heard the rumours about Grant Leadbitter but the last chat I had with the owner about Grant was that we were hoping to extend his contract.
"There’s been a lot of mumbling about Grant. I don’t want it to go on and on, that’s the only thing I’ve said to Grant and he’s of the same ilk.
"But there have to be people willing to buy him or buy anybody before we let anybody go. I’m not here thinking that I’ve got to let players go out. However, I think that if I were a player on the fringes here, as great a club as this is, I’d still want to be playing football somewhere.”