Coca-Cola Championship club Hull City are not looking to make Peterborough United goalkeeper Mark Tyler's loan spell at the KC Stadium into a permanent deal, Posh Director of Football Barry Fry has revealed.

Tyler joined the Tigers at the end of January, but has not featured in the first team and in recent weeks has been sidelined with a back injury. With Tyler and Shwan Jalal set to return to London Road, Posh will be left with four goalkeepers at their disposal and Fry believes that is too many.

'Mark Tyler has been on-loan at Hull City, but I have spoken to officials up there and they are not interested in taking him permanently, so that is the end of that. We had the opportunity to sell Shwan Jalal to two clubs, but he didn't want to go and now he is back.

'Because we are a big club and everyone is talking about us and I think because of that, the players are far more reluctant to leave. They want to play some part in our success, but realistically, four goalkeepers is two too many. If we do get offers for the goalkeepers and they don't want to go then there is nothing we can do about it. If they want to play regular first team football then they should go.

'Some clubs can't offer what they are on with us and that is sometimes the stumbling block, but we will wait and see what happens. We have an England under 21 international at the club in Joe Lewis and a very promising goalkeeper in James McKeown already here,' Fry told theposh.com.

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