Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that there is no option of a return to the Sky Blues for Ryan Kent from Liverpool.
The City boss told the Coventry Telegraph: “There’s no option to get him back. I would think it’s a stepping stone in Ryan’s development and we need to move on.
“We’ve got several options. I explained that to Elson’s agent the situation and yet he did fine here.
"He’s a good player and the players liked him, he blended in well and he would have been a permanent signing. It’s only a case of prioritising so he had to wait.
"If Stephen Hunt is going to stay, for instance, we have Jim O’Brien, Jacob Murphy, Ruben Lameiras – lots of players to play in wide areas so it’s not necessarily a critical area for us at the moment.”
As for any other type of position he’d like to fill, Mowbray said: “Someone to give me an asset rather than a position. Let’s see, we might not get three.
"It depends on the finances because one deal might eat up all the money and then you have to make a decision whether you want to push on with that deal and use all the money, or say no and see if you can get two for the same money.”