Roy Hodgson has taken a swipe at Hull over the injury picked up by Daniel Ayala and suggested any future loan approaches to Liverpool will fall on deaf ears.
Ayala spent a productive couple of months at the KC Stadium, but picked up a hamstring injury towards the end of his spell.
Liverpool's medical staff expected Ayala to make a swift return to Anfield, but he remained at Hull and Hodgson has claimed the central defender aggravated the problem while on the east coast.
"We wanted to bring him back for the last three weeks of 2010 to get him fit, because he wasn't fit there, and to cover Jamie Carragher," Hodgson told the club's official website. "Hull totally refused and said, 'No, under the loan agreement he's here until January 1 and we're not prepared to allow him to go back.'
"We then said, 'In that case you can forget about loaning him in January.' We'd done them a great favour loaning him to them for so long and we couldn't believe that when we were in need of him, they said 'No'.
"Then (after Hull said 'No') we wanted him here at least until such time that he got fit from his hamstring injury, which we thought would be the middle of December, but they refused that as well and insisted he went back there. And then with the treatment he has been given there his injury has now been aggravated.
"Our fitness people were under the impression when he was here that they'd have him fit for about the 15th or 16th of December - now he won't be fit until the end of January because his injury has been exacerbated by going back to Hull City."
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