A pre-deadline offer was received from an unnamed club.

Lunt does not figure in the Owls first-team plans and they were willing to let him go but the midfielder rejected the move.

Laws would only say: "Players make me laugh when they say they just want to play games and when they do get an opportunity to play games, they don't want to go.

"It really does infuriate me at times."

Deadline week has been relatively quiet for the Wednesday manager, .

He explained last month after the loan arrival of Tony McMahon that financial constraints meant there would no further signings unless another injury crisis forced a rethink.

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The Owls also resisted Coventry's overtures for Richard Wood and do not want to reduce their small squad by letting their best young players go.

"We have made it very clear that if the likes of Coventry are trying to tap up our players, there's no way we are going to allow it," added Laws.

Meanwhile, Geoff Sheard is still insisting that his takeover of the club is on course and that funding is not an issue.

He said he did not want to publicly put forward a time scale for the ending of the saga but the people closely involved in the deal were aware of one.

Sheard also said he was aware of criticism from certain quarters and he suggested this may have been inspired by someone who had an agenda to discredit him.

The takeover frontman added: "I'm happy with the way things are. I apologise for the time it's taken."

Watford, the Owls' next opponents, will be without striker Grzegorz Rasiak when they come to Hillsborough. He is out for up to six weeks with a broken shoulder.

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