Town manager Paul Lambert says new loan signing Callum Elder had no hesitation in wanting to join the Blues on loan from Leicester City despite their perilous position at the bottom of the Championship. Australian left-back Elder, 23, joined Town on loan for the rest of the season earlier in the week.
"He’s got great drive in his game, Callum, great hunger in his game,” Lambert said. "A really good left foot.
"The great thing about him was that he wanted to be here. As soon as I spoke to him he wanted to come. That’s the type of lads we need.”
Myles Kenlock has impressed at left-back in the last two matches and Lambert wants to see the pair battling for the shirt.
"The best man wins. There’s no secret in football, it’s an individual sport and a team game. I think that’s the way you always view it.
"If you perform, you perform and if you don’t you know what happens. There’s no magic formula to it, you need competition and with the Jonas situation we had to bring somebody else in. But Myles has been absolutely fantastic for us.”
Asked whether Jonas Knudsen’s departure during January is now inevitable, Lambert said: "No, but we had to prepare for it because it can happen. I’ve not heard anything, whether somebody comes in [for him, I don't know]. If a player says he’s got one eye on something you never know.
"But Jonas has been great in training, never a problem at all, it’s just the situation with his contract has been allowed to run. But the club did offer him something.”
Danish international Knudsen, 26, is out of contract at the end of the season with Middlesbrough and Stoke having shown strong interest in the summer.
More recently, FC Copenhagen and FC Midtjylland in his home country and Bundesliga side Fortuna Düsseldorf have been linked.