CHRIS Turner is hoping to extend James Coppinger's loan stay at Hartlepool United.

Coppinger moved to Pool on loan from Newcastle in January and has made ten starts, netting two goals playing on the right wing.

But he hasn't been in the 16 on duty for Pool's last three games, fuelling speculation that he will be on his way back to reserve team football at St James' Park.

Turner, however, is keen to keep him at Victoria Park as he looks towards next season with the play-offs now looking an impossible task after Friday night's 2-1 home defeat to Macclesfield.

"I hope we can loan him for another month,'' confirmed Turner. "And we will see if he is what we require. He hasn't been in the team in the last weeks at Rochdale or Carlisle because they haven't been his sort of games.

"He will get an opportunity here in the next four weeks - as long as Newcastle let him come back for another month - and we will play him.''

Other than Coppinger, Turner will have a quiet week in the transfer market.

Deadline day is on Thursday, but the Pool boss confirmed: "We won't be bringing anyone in.

"And I doubt anyone will be going out - who has any money these days? There is no money in the game, agents are ringing me up every day and I tell them all we won't be bringing in any more players and I very much doubt anyone else will be.

"I have said several times to our supporters that the future of the game is in the balance. There's a lot of clubs relying on the TV money coming in - we get £25,000 a month which is a lot of money to recoup if you don't get it."

Turner knows his side are rank outsiders for a top-seven spot now and he is ready to change his side around for Saturday's trip to Oxford.

"I was very disappointed about Friday because for the first time in months we haven't performed at home,'' he said. "We had a good crowd and we were unable to send them home happy.

"I felt we didn't perform for 60-odd minutes. It wasn't good enough. They had two chances and got two goals; we had five or six chances and only got one.

"But a draw wasn't good enough for us. We needed to win - no disrespect to Macclesfield but we have to be capable of winning those games.

"Mathematically we have a chance of the play-offs. Teams have gone through harder situations than this but for me it would take a miracle.

"Realisticallty we have to start looking at next season and look longer term. We have five games to go this season and we have to see what we require next season.

"We will try and win the last five games, but we can utilise them along the way as well to look at certain things.

"I'm going to look at if we are going to play 4-4-2 or 3-5-2. Three defenders has served us well away from home, but Friday night against Macclesfield was not about systems. Colin West said at half-time that the game reminded him of the Mansfield game on the first day of the season when they were quicker, sharper and brighter than us.''

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