Jamal Blackman and George Hirst expected to stay at Rotherham United until end of season

Blackman is on a season-long loan from Chelsea while Hirst is on a similar deal from Leicester, but both have struggled for game time in recent weeks.

Blackman, who started the season off as Warne's number one, was recalled for Saturday's game with Everton after a month out of the side, while Hirst has been restricted to substitute appearances.

With Warne potentially needing to free some places up in his squad, cancelling those two loans could have been an option for him.

But Warne does not expect them to depart.

“They might do, I don't think they will,” he told the Star.

“In January you have to move people out to get people in and fundamentally our league position we are not doing as well as we want so everyone is up for movement.

“At this moment in time they are our players, we are going to use them, we are going to try and help them and get them as good as we can.

“That is as it stands now, in two weeks that might change one of those two might come in and tells me they are not happy with their game time and they're done.

“If that is the case then that's a conversation to be had but at the moment they are very much part of our plans and I don't see that changing.”

Blackman won his shirt back for the FA Cup trip to Everton after a spell watching Viktor Johansson take the gloves.

Warne added: “I just gave him an opportunity to prove why he should be Number 1.

“I thought he played well to be fair. His overall game was good.

“At the start of the season Jamal was my number one, I told Viktor that, I admit that, I didn't think Jamal's performances were as good as I wanted, or he wanted, he had a bit of an injury.

“Viktor came in and did really well and have seen Jamal in training, thought he had done well and thought with a big game like this I thought his experience he might just be a better option

“I don't like changing my goalkeepers but everybody is up for scrutiny when we are second bottom of the league.”

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