Gary Johnson wants to keep loan duo Joe Edwards and Ryan Dickson at Yeovil Town for as long as he can.

Both could play their final games of an initial month with the Glovers at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

Yeovil manager Johnson revealed he attempted to extend their deals on transfer deadline day this week, but conceded he would have to wait to finalise any deal.

However, he added Bristol City’s Edwards and Southampton’s Dickson had impressed him sufficiently during January to warrant longer stays.

“We asked Southampton what the situation is and they asked us to wait until Wednesday in case, I suppose, they ended up selling him,” said Johnson.

“We will not know if he has got a future or an extended month with us – and that is the same with Joe Edwards.

“We have asked Bristol City if we could carry on the loan. His carries on until the ninth, but I am pretty sure Sheffield Wednesday is his last game.

“It is very difficult on a day like Tuesday and this is what happens with deadline day stuff – everybody does it on deadline day.

“The domino effect is that people cannot make decisions on people that you have got because they are waiting for something to happen, somebody else is waiting for something to happen and, until the domino starts falling, nobody can make a decision.

“They are two players that we want to keep at the club as long as we can.

“They are both quality players and what we have seen is that they can play.

“Whereas they might not all have had fantastic games – certainly Ryan had a poor one in his first game – they have come through that and looked very good players since.”

Meanwhile, Johnson said he was ‘disturbed’ that the FA failed to rescind Paul Huntington’s red card.

The Yeovil captain was dismissed at the weekend for a tackle on Preston’s Jamie Proctor. The club chose to challenge referee Oliver Langford’s decision, but were unsuccessful and will be without Huntington for three games.

Johnson said: “I am very disturbed that Huntington did not get his red card rescinded because I have seen many tackles that have gone unpunished that were much worse.

“There is an unbelievable inconsistency. Nobody knows the criteria for a good or bad tackle.”