Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’ll learn whether Crystal Palace manager Tony Pulis is willing to extend Jonny Williams’s loan with the Blues beyond its initial month after Saturday’s home game against Nottingham Forest.
The 20-year-old is currently due to return to Selhurst Park following Forest’s visit with reports yesterday speculating that Pulis wants the Wales international for the final weeks his club’s Premier League relegation battle.
McCarthy says that so far there have been no developments on that front: "He’s available for the weekend, that’s the main thing, he’s with us. We’ll just take that one and see what happens.
"Of course [we’d like to keep him for the rest of the season] but he’s not our player so that’ll be determined by somebody else. But let’s hope so.”
Meanwhile, the Blues manager says top scorer David McGoldrick is the only player unavailable for Saturday’s game: "Cole Skuse is fine, he trained fully yesterday and today, he’s OK.
"Luke Chambers had a migraine and had blurred vision [late on against Derby], but he’s fine. He’s trained well today as well.
"Everybody’s OK, except Didzy, who I think comes out of his brace in the next couple of days, so he’s making progress as well.”