Barnsley captain Adam Davies says he has had no conversations with the club about a new contract and is not expecting any talks until the end of the season when his current deal expires.

The 26-year-old goalkeeper has not been offered an extended contract, unlike Adam Jackson and Ryan Hedges who have barely featured under Daniel Stendel this season. Davies, who has played 28 of the Reds’ 31 League One games this season, has been at Oakwell since 2014.

He said: “I am absolutely open-minded about it. I haven’t spoken to the club about it, at all. My main aim is just to get this team back into the Championship, where we all deserve to be. I am just focusing on the last 15 games then, at the end of the season, I will sit down with the chief executive.”

Davies – who has played 195 Reds games – was part of the Barnsley team which was promoted from League One in 2016, winning 21 of their final 30 matches having been in the relegation zone at Christmas. This current team, now in the second automatic promotion place, have also launched an impressive run from December and are now unbeaten in 11 matches with eight victories. He believes the current team is even better than the 2016 side.

“I was thinking this week that maybe this team is better because we can break teams down when they sit back, which we struggled with in the last team. Those lads from the last team have gone on and done really well so you will only really be able to judge in a few years.

"We have real quality. The young lads have come in and done really well. Alex Mowatt and Ethan Pinnock have been brilliant. We have bundles of quality and a lot of these lads could play at a really high level.”

With Barnsley second in the league, Davies is hoping for a second promotion. He said: “We have been waiting for this kind of run that we are on now and we’re doing really well. But we will keep focusing on the next game and try to carry that run on then get promoted. We always believed a run like this would come.

"I told the lads to just stick with the pack until the business end of the season.  It reminds me of the momentum we had in 2016, we felt unstoppable and that we could beat anyone. That’s the attitude we have to have for the rest of this season. The gaffer expects us to win every game and that gives us the confidence that we can do that.

"To be captain of a promoted side would be absolutely unbelievable. It motivates me.”