Blues central defender Corrie Ndaba won’t be joining Ayr United on loan having spent the week on trial with the Scottish Championship side.

The 20-year-old impressed the Honest Men but was unable to join them due to FIFA’s three-club rule which states that players can only be registered with a maximum of three teams in a season.

The Republic of Ireland U21 call-up has already spent time on loan at Hemel Hempstead and Chelmsford City during 2019/20.

It's understood Scottish clubs have previously found a way around the rule, hence the defender going on trial, but are now being forced to adhere to it.

Ndaba is yet to make his Blues first-team bow, despite having been involved with the senior squad throughout pre-season.

Blues striker Aaron Drinan has made two appearances for Ayr having joined them on loan after a recent trial.

Midfielder Brett McGavin also trained at Somerset Park for a few days before returning to Town.

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midastouch added 19:47 - Jan 30 Ndaba having a bad Ayr day.
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Len_Brennan added 20:55 - Jan 30 Disappointed with how Ndaba has progressed over the last 12 months; I fully expected him to be a regular in match day squads this season. Can't all be £10m rated centre halves I guess.
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runningout added 23:36 - Jan 30 Not a good sign. Needs a good talking to and get him playing with purpose
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budgieplucker added 00:16 - Jan 31 Maybe there is an underlying attitude problem, certainly appears that PH doesn't rate him at the moment and had a real swipe at him following the U23 playoffs last season when he was on the fringe of making his debut for the first team. However, since then the lad has lost a lot of his confidence, his timing and reading of the game has all been off as well. So he has gone backward. In some ways I have sympathy for the lad because sometimes you can try to hard and he might be at a loss as to why he can't recover his very promising early career form.

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RaymondovicBlue added 11:30 - Jan 31 To be fair, budgiepicker, "PH" didn't rate many of our players and made his thoughts well known to them 😂
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