Tyler Magloire is back training with the Rovers first-team and is expected to remain at Ewood Park for the remainder of the season.

A two month loan spell in the National League with Hartlepool saw Magloire chalk up 10 appearances, and the 22-year-old is wanted back by the promotion-chasers.

The defender has interest too from other National League sides, however, Rovers are set to turn down any advances for his services to keep him around.

Rovers are short of defensive options, with three senior centre halves injured and Hayden Carter having been loaned to League One side Burton Albion.

Magloire is the most experienced of Rovers’ clutch of young central defenders, with two senior appearances for the first-team to his name, as well as the loan spell at Rochdale in the first half of last season and his two month stay at Hartlepool.

He impressed in a pre-season friendly at Leicester City in the summer, and after an injury hit last 12 months, Magloire is set to stay at Rovers for cover and feature for the Under-23s.

“At this moment he’s staying with us but there’s a week or so left of the window so let’s see what happens,” Mowbray said.

“He’s getting on with it, I had a long chat before he came back from Hartlepool and he’s fine, he understands the situation.

“He knows he’s a Blackburn Rovers player and the balance was to go and get him some football rather than Under-23s football which he’s done and let’s see what the rest of the season brings for Tyler.”

Magloire and Carter both have 18 months left on their Rovers contracts, with Joe Grayson seeing his deal expire in the summer.

The Rovers Under-23s captain is one player Rovers will consider allowing to leave on loan in this window, with left back Lewis Thompson another likely to covet interest.

The club have already allowed Harry Chapman (Shrewsbury Town), Carter (Burton Albion) and Brad Lyons (Morecambe) to leave on loan, while goalkeeper Joe Hilton this week returned after his seven-day emergency loan spell at Fleetwood Town ended.

There the 21-year-old made his senior debut, playing three times for the Cod Army when they were without their two senior goalkeepers, and Mowbray says that has been followed up by further interest in Hilton.

The 'keeper, who signed from Everton in 2019, has struggled with injury this year and has Jordan Eastham and Antonis Stergiakis for competition in the Under-23s ranks.

Chapman is set to be the most senior player allowed out in this window, but Mowbray says some of the Under-23s squad could be free to gain experience in the EFL.

“Young players we feel need to play some football,” he said.

“Joe Hilton has been out on an emergency loan and a few other clubs have enquired on the back of that loan spell. There’s potential for us to do something there.

“Just some young players that clubs are looking at.

“Depending on how low down the ladder you go, they don’t want to pay any money, we have to make the balance of whether we’re going to let them go and play football and get experience or whether we want wages covering.

“That stuff goes on on a daily basis.

“Depending on what level it’s at depends whether I have any involvement or not or whether the young player should go and get some experience or not and the finance is merely a club issue.”