Millwall Boss Gary Rowett has stressed the importance of keeping winger Jed Wallace at The Den after interest in the player during the January transfer window.
Wallace, whose contract expires in the summer, was a target for Nottingham Forest, but the player ended up staying with the Lions.
Forest saw several bids rejected ahead of Monday's transfer deadline as boss Steve Cooper looked to bolster his squad.
Following Millwall's 0-0 draw with Preston in the Championship on Tuesday night, Rowett addressed the fact the winger was still at the club.
"That was one of the big things this window. One of the factors was that we wanted to keep Jed," he said, via Football League World.
"You want to keep your best players available. We need that attacking quality in the final third to give us a chance to win games.
"You’ve seen it in the last few weeks when we’ve put young players on to try and win games against young sides and it’s difficult to do that but what we’ve been able to do tonight and what we’ll be able to do in the future is put players on that know what it takes to win games in the Championship – and the likes of Tyler Burey to come on and give you that little bit of zip.
"It’s good to keep Jed. I think you could see he hadn’t trained that much in seven or eight weeks but because he’d been so important for us, I thought he might give us a little bit more of a spark but maybe tonight that was asking too much of him."
