JEWISON Bennette could still leave Sunderland despite his deadline day move to Charlton Athletic falling through.
Bennette was set to link up with the League One Addicks after an agreement was reached in the final hours of the window, but the deal wasn't done in time.
However, with some overseas windows still open, Regis Le Bris hasn't ruled out a move for Bennette, who doesn't feature in the head coach's plans at Sunderland.
Bennette hasn't once been named in a Championship matchday squad this season, with his only appearance coming as a late substitute in the Carabao Cup first round defeat at Preston.
Le Bris said: "In this transfer window, we still have this problem in the last minutes.
"It could still be possible to find a club because there are some markets that are still open, so we will see on that one."
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With the dust having now settled on the January transfer window, Le Bris outlined four reasons why he was pleased with Sunderland's business.
"There are a lot of topics," he said.
"The first is the players who left the club to find minutes and game time. Aaron (Connolly) was a permanent and the others were a loan, these were important moves for them to play because when you are not involved in the main squad it is difficult to improve your level. It was important for them.
"The second is the retention of our top talents. It's important to remember that when you have good players, you can have interest [from other clubs]. We kept them with us, they trust and we trust them and there is a confidence that is shared which is good news.
"The third one is the returns because I have said this before, we had a lot of injured players in the first half of the season and I hope they will be available for the second half of the season. Salis is one example. We have five or six players like this and we expect that they will give something else to the team.
"The final topic is the recruitment process, we recruited two. We recruited Enzo and we can see after four games that he will suit our game style. The connection with his team mates is getting better and better and the last one is Jayden Danns.
"During the medical assessment we found an underlying issue so we are going to have to wait a little bit about the timeline of his availability. I hope it will maybe be a couple of weeks but I don't know, we will have to see."
