Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that he would like to keep Ben Turner at the Sky Blues if possible.
Turner is on a loan from Cardiff City which expires in a few weeks and speaking about this to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner, Mowbray said: “The search goes on for a dominant centre-half and sometimes all you feel you do is look for footballers, sitting in recruitment meetings and talking about which ones are going to fit.
“There are a lot of potential foreign players but is the language going to be a problem, will they hit the ground running? But we’ll keep looking to try to find the right option.
“That said, there’s no guarantee that Ben will go back.
“Cardiff have lost a couple of 2-0 leads and ended up drawing in their last two games which will be frustrating for them, of course, defensively but the situation is similar to that with Newcastle and Adam Armstrong.
“But if they can keep winning or keeping clean sheets Cardiff they might see a benefit of keeping Ben here and then at least if and when they need him in an emergency he’s fit and played that week. He could go straight back to them on a 24-hour recall and play the next game as opposed to going back on a pre-arranged date and sitting there in the Under-21s and not playing for weeks and weeks. That might be an option, let’s wait and see.
“Maybe we can extend the loan until the end of the season with a recall which would benefit us and benefit the boy playing. It might not benefit them financially but they have still got to pay his salary.
“But if he’s not going to go back and go straight back in the team he might as well stay here and save them a few quid in his salary and have him play regularly and keep him ticking over.”