Said Brighton Boss Dean Wilkins to his club's website: "We knew all along but we still asked Micky the question again. "We probably asked him two or three times and in the end he got fed up with giving us the same answer.
"You have to try, hope you might catch him on a day of weakness. It is a shame that we can't play Andy but we'll have to get around it."
Meanwhile,Isaac Osbourne is back at City after picking up an groin injury whilst on loan at Crewe.