Norwich City head coach Philippe Clement confirmed that Josh Sargent will not be available for selection ahead of this weekend's Sky Bet Championship fixture away to Wrexham.
Speaking to the local media ahead of tomorrow's trip to the SToK Cae Ras to face Wrexham, Clement confirmed the US international will not be in the squad.
"Josh has been training with the Under-21s, what he has done is not acceptable. We want to focus on the players available and get us out of the position we are in currently. There's not much more to focus on now apart from Wrexham and getting results," he said.
"You can only control the controllable. That can also happen with injuries. It happened when he had a concussion and other people stepped up and we got results. It depends on him.
"I've said it already a few times; this club is in a relegation battle and everyone is focused on coming out of this situation. I don't have any fear about distraction in the squad. They're all working hard in attitude, in team spirit, to get results."
The Belgian did confirm that there would be two additions in his matchday squad on Saturday, after speaking about reported transfer rumours.
"I know I'm annoying, like many managers are annoying to journalists. Maybe we could do a week where we do your job and you do our jobs. I've been in football long enough to know that things can change quickly. Nobody new has signed until now, but I can give you some good news. Ali Ahmed and Papa Amadou Diallo will be available for selection for the Wrexham game.
"Everybody's working really hard to get the right quality for the short and long terms. Nobody can ever give guarantees on anything, it doesn't work that way, but everyone is in contact about what we want to do.
"We need to talk about how many minutes (for Diallo). What is a safe zone, what is a risky zone and what is a crazy zone. He can't start, so it depends on what the team needs. We will be building his game minutes because he's shown good things, but the circumstances of the game need to be there also.
"Until now this was our best training week, so everybody has seen that there is a big difference from four or five weeks ago. There is more intensity and more players fighting to start in a positive way. My favourite moment of the Walsall game was the reaction when Tony Springett scored, especially from the guys who were not in the selection.
"It's different from a few months ago, when they were living as islands. They feel the strength now of togetherness and competitiveness. We're in a positive way, but we've got a big challenge now against Wrexham. We have big respect for them and it's a really big challenge, but I like a big challenge. The players like that more and more, so we're going to go full for the three points."
Clement also spoke about tomorrow's opposition, Wrexham, and the threats that the home team will pose.
"I'm somebody who wants to put a team in the right circumstances and have the context of the game. It's almost an opposite philosophy as they have experienced players, whereas we have younger players. It's going to be an interesting game.
"They are very good with crosses, winning duels and in transition. They have a lot of qualities there and almost all of their players have a lot of experience.
"We take confidence from previous away games, except the first half against Birmingham. I never felt, apart from that game, that this team was afraid of a challenge. It starts to become boring, but we've spoken about facing teams in good form before.
"I feel this fight in the group that they believe that they can beat everybody in this league."