Town boss Paul Jewell says he’s not expecting to add any loan players to his squad before Saturday’s trip to Blackpool. Football League clubs are able to bring in loanees for up to 93 days from today.
Jewell said: "I don’t think [there’ll be any moves in or out before the weekend]. Like any time we’re making enquiries, trying to improve our squad. Things are ongoing.”
Last week the Blues manager said he had three targets in his sights, one almost certainly Stoke’s Danny Collins, and he says there may be progress now that players have returned from the international break: "There has been movement, whether that’s been positive movement or negative movement I’m not quite sure at the moment.
"Players have been away on international duty and are due back today and tomorrow. The Premier League squads have been announced, so players who might have thought they were going to be in the 25 and aren’t might have a different view.
"If I was a Premier League player, until I actually knew that I couldn’t play for my team until December I’d maybe still have hopes of playing in the Premier League, so perhaps things are a little different now.”
Jewell says he’ll continue to look for new additions despite already adding 11 signings to his squad this summer: "We’ve got an awful lot of new players and things can take time, but I think that if we can try and improve certain areas we will try and do that.
"There’s always a bit of trading that goes on in football. I’m not under any pressure to get rid of anyone. We have got a lot of bodies at the moment but we’re still trying to improve the squad.”
Jewell says that Kaiserslautern’s Czech U21 international holding midfielder Jiřà BÃlek and Costa Rican international central defender Francisco Calvo have not been offered contracts after their recent trials.