Hammer Winston Reid has returned to training with the first-team squad at Rush Green.

The club have published photos and video of the centre back on social media channels.

Reid returned to East London after completing his loan spell in the MLS stateside.

Sporting announced that Reid was among a group of four players for whom it had “declined contract options” for the 2021 season.

The 33-year-old whose loan has now ended made 10 appearances (eight starts), scored one goal and contributed to two clean sheets in 728 minutes played.

With Angelo Ogbonna, Fabian Balbuena, Iss Diop and loanee Craig Dawson available to David Moyes there appears to be little room in the squad for Reid.

Another crop of centre backs are waiting in the wings with Gonçalo Cardoso, Ali Alese,  Joshua Okotcha, Jamal Baptiste, Michael Forbes, Iyiola Adebayo as well as new signing Frederik Alves.

The club may look to cancel Reid’s contract by mutual consent but that may not come cheap unless he can line up another club in January and his appearance on the club’s social channels may be just that, putting him in the shop window.

He is thought to earn £70,000 per week and that will be the main stumbling block of any deal.