, Ipswich Town boss uncertain on whether to sign Leeds United loanee

Ipswich Town boss uncertain on whether to sign Leeds United loanee

Ipswich Town boss Mick McCarthy, pressed by a vision of how he wants his squad to shape for next season, admits that he may not be bringing Leeds United loanee Toumani Diagouraga back to Suffolk on a permanent basis.

Toumani Diagouraga was deemed surplus to requirements at Elland Road under Garry Monk this season, instead being signed by no-nonsense Ipswich Town boss Mick McCarthy on loan. Whilst at Portman Road, Diagouraga featured in 13 Championship games for the Tractor Boys, playing 911 minutes during his spell at the club.

As per the following tweet, the defensive-minded midfielder’s loan spell was cut short by injury, Diagouraga returning to Elland Road ahead of the season’s end.

The former Paris Saint-Germain Under-19 player signed for Leeds United from Brentford in January 2016 for a fee reported to be around £670,000. In all, he featured 20 times for Leeds United, scoring three times. After Leeds United’s opening day 3-0 defeat at the hands of QPR, a game in which he played the full 90 minutes, Diagouraga didn’t feature in the next 26 match day squads.

However, despite impressing at Ipswich, featuring extensively for the Portman Road side, Mick McCarthy cannot guarantee that he’ll be coming back to Suffolk according to the report in the East Anglian Daily Times. Here McCarthy said: “He does a similar job to Skusey (Cole Skuse) in sitting. He might pass forwards a bit more than Skusey, but Skusey does that.”

Fan website TWTD report McCarthy extending this view a little saying: “What did Cantona call them, the water carriers? Everybody wants one in the team. He called Didier Deschamps that so that’s no insult.”

There is little doubt that Toumani Diagouraga does that important and often tireless job in the trenches, but McCarthy is thought to have other concerns, aside from player similarity, on his mind. The East Anglian Daily Times report that McCarthy said: “I’ve got to be careful what I do because of the size of the squad and the budget I’m going to have – and I’m not quite certain on that yet.”

Ipswich Town’s final game of the season is tomorrow against Nottingham Forest at the City ground. For Toumani Diagouraga it appears to be a summer of waiting for the amiable Frenchman to see how his future pans out.

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