Burton Albion have had a "general conversation" with Manchester City about possible loan deals for next season.
City youngster Jacob Davenport spent the second half of last season with Albion, and he became a key player as they narrowly missed out on Championship survival.
The 19-year-old made 17 appearances and is a player Burton would be interested in getting back at the club for a second spell if possible, although he is likely to attract attention from second-tier clubs after a successful spell at the Pirelli Stadium.
But Nigel Clough says the Brewers have also been in touch with the Premier League champions to see if there could be other players from City's academy available for their League One campaign.
"We've had a general conversation at the end of the season - we always have a catch-up and a review to say, 'brilliant, he (Davenport) has done this and this'," said Clough.
"A lot of clubs want to get pre-season out of the way, or into pre-season beforehand, they won't commit at this stage to loan players.
"It's an open-ended conversation at this stage to stay, 'is there anybody else, let's see how we go'.
"I don't think they've made a decision on what they're doing with Jacob yet.
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"He has got a year left and I think with him performing so well in the Championship, there might be other clubs at that level looking at him."
Clough has previously said that he will look to maintain the Brewers' close links with Derby County following Frank Lampard's appointment as the new Rams boss.
He says Burton's personal relationship with Gary Rowett will continue at Stoke City as well.
And maintaining such relationships has an important part to play in transfer dealings, as Albion could yet discover with City after Davenport flourished with them.
"Definitely, you build relationships with clubs," added Clough.
"Who would have thought Burton Albion would be getting players off Manchester City, as we did last season?
"And because it went so well for Jacob, then they are amenable to looking at other things as well, which is good.
"It's that initial thing. If they come out and have a bad experience and they don't play, then teams go, 'we're not sending them there'.
"But if the player goes back with positive feedback, they (the club) has seen they've got time on the pitch at a level they didn't think, in Jacob's case, he'd be playing at at this stage, I think it's all positive.
"Then they won't hesitate - if we see somebody in the under-23s, we've got the contact, pick up the phone and say, 'what do you think, we'll tell you what was good for him last season' - let's send him out."
