Hull City chairman Paul Duffen expects defender Wayne Brown to leave.

Duffen told the Hull Daily Mail: "Any player who can see they are unlikely to get first-team football is going to start considering their future and what is best for them.

"Wayne is a consummate professional and he has been an absolutely fantastic servant for Hull City.

"He's not the sort of player who is happy not to be playing first-team football, but at the minute he knows he's not going to get first-team action.

"That's no reflection on Wayne as a player, it is just a fact of life that we have brought in two excellent centre-halves.

"Wayne now looks at the competition for places and he knows Anthony Gardner and Kamil Zayatte are ahead of him in the selection for the first team at present."