Mick McCarthy has informed the Ipswich Star that he isn’t planning on making any loan signings when the emergency loan window reopens. Next Thursday onwards, clubs will be allowed to make loan signings but Ipswich aren’t expected to be involved.
Whilst the deadline for permanent transfers closed at 6pm on September 1st, there is the option to purchase temporary signings should squads need a boost. However Tractor Boys boss McCarthy doesn’t believe he will dip into that market, purely because they have enough options in the squad,
“I doubt I will be entering into that market.
Not when I get Christophe Berra, Teddy Bishop, Daryl Murphy, Kevin Bru and Jonathan Parr back to go with the ones we have got.
I will have probably got a squad of 23 so I won’t need anyone else.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean loan departures are out of the question as although Cameron Stewart recently moved out to League One side Doncaster Rovers on loan, Alex Henshall could be set for a similar type of move. He has been told he has no future at Portman Road by former Wolverhampton Wanderers and Sunderland boss McCarthy. However the door isn’t necessarily shut on Stewart’s long term future with the club,
“Like everyone else, he gets plenty of work into him, coaching, advice, assistance, nurturing. They (players) get it all. Sometimes it doesn’t work.
Let’s hope he goes to Doncaster and gets his mojo back and returns to the form he showed when he played for Charlton and Leeds against us and was a real threat.”
Ipswich have enjoyed a superb start to the season, sitting in third place in the Championship and are joint-top scorers with Queens Park Rangers on ten goals. They next return to action after the international break on Friday September 11th with a trip to Reading.
