Loan signing Gianni Zuiverloon says he has been taking lessons on Town’s Dutch history from fellow Rotterdammer Fabian Wilnis. The West Brom man’s Portman Road stay is unlikely to be anything like as lengthy Wilnis's as he says he’s eyeing a permanent move to another Premier League club in January.

Zuiverloon told Voetbal International that Wilnis has been instructing him on the Town exploits of Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen, as well as himself and Martijn Reuser: “For the time being I concentrate on Ipswich Town, a club with a nice tradition and a special history with players from the Netherlands. Fabian Wilnis gave me a small lesson in history last week!”

The 23-year-old hopes his month with Town will help him to win a deal with another top flight club after failing to make a league appearance for the Baggies this season: “My ambition is to play for a club in the Premier League. Last year I played in the Championship with West Brom. That’s not what I like.

“Every match is very fast. Running, rushing and a lack of tactics. In the Premier League there is more time to receive the ball and the football itself is more important.

“I’m short on match action and I want to be fit when a club is interested in me in January. That was the main reason for me choosing to come to Ipswich Town.”

Shortly after his signing, manager Roy Keane said he had no issue with players using their loan spells to impress other interested parties: “I think he went to West Brom for £3.2 million and put it this way, I don’t think we’d pay that for a full-back. I don’t think we’d pay that for a striker at the moment.

“I spoke to the boy, he’s very positive, he knows he can come in and get some games and it might help him to get a move, not to us but to someone else in January.

“Players will use loans as an opportunity to help themselves, and I see no problem with that. If we can help him and he helps us, then we’ll all be happy.”

Zuiverloon's month at Portman Road is due to end on January 4th.

Meanwhile, the Blues, Coventry, Scunthorpe, Charlton and Southampton are claimed to be watching 27-year-old Leyton Orient striker Alex Revell. The former Cambridge man would appear to be an unlikely Town target given the recent loan signing of Rory Fallon from Plymouth.

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Blue_Square added 14:08 - Dec 9 Spot oin with the comment about David Wright (Mark) All these stories do is fule the fire to sack Keane... Never have I seen him being an Ipswich man - makes me think the ONLY reason he's here is to rebuild his managerial credentials from walking on Sunderland at a team who were willing to throw millions into hi transfer kitty to aid him back on track. I'd love to See Keane attampt to manage at a lower league team with no cash to spend...! What a joke - his policy's of bringing scum bags like this guy in - have simply become boring. KEANE OUT.

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TractorBeezer added 14:11 - Dec 9 Not to belittle our corrent plight ....but this board is great entertainment including the All Aboard caption!
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Ipswich24 added 15:55 - Dec 9 Its what have said all along what motivation have players from premiership got of coming down here? Nothing it is pointless get players from lower leagues and championship who want to play want to prove something. Zuiverloon no better than Peters O Dea no better than O connor Livermore no better than Hyam And as for Fallon not fit to lace JON STEADS BOOTS only decent loanee is Townsend and Keane dont like him because he is actually positive!

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zebra added 17:17 - Dec 9 I really don't like to hear the name of Zuiverloon mentioned alongside Thyssen and Muhren. It's disrespectful to two of our greatest ever players who ran their socks off and played as if they loved our club - which they did. Did he really say this - or is it misreporting? If he did then he should be shown the door immediately - we can do without this sort of person at our club

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SonOfSpock added 21:46 - Dec 9 "Last year I played in the Championship with West Brom. That's not what I like." With that attitude I'd rather play Peters or one of the kids.
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thechangingman added 21:58 - Dec 9 Mr Keane... Please just leave... You've done enough damage and achieved precisely nothing... No words, no excuses can disguise your inadequacies... It's over, it never really began... Please let us put your and your beige era behind us so that we can move forward again in the Ipswich way: stylish, passing football, exciting, positive, hopeful - something to look forward to... STOP DRAGGING MY CLUB THROUGH THE MUD JUST SO YOU CAN PRACTICE BEING A MANAGER - HAVE SOME DIGNITY MAN...

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