Blues boss Paul Jewell has revealed that Icelandic defender Ívar Ingimarsson's contract has been terminated by mutual consent. The 34-year-old was one of the centre-halves heavily criticised after Monday's 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest.

Jewell said: “We’ve terminated Ívar’s contract, we’ve come to an agreement with him and his agent, that was agreed early in the week.

“It just hasn’t worked out, for him or for us. He’s been a terrific professional, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen. I think Ívar accepts that and we accept that.

“I rang his agent and said ‘it’s not working out’. He’s been a terrific player, a terrific professional and is a proud man, so he doesn’t want to hang around if he’s not going to be involved."

The Blues manager says the summer free transfer from Reading, who made six starts and two sub appearances for Town, never really established himself at Portman Road: “From day one it’s been start-stop for him, so I thought it was better for him to cut ties.

"The owner’s come to an agreement with his agent about the rest of his contract.”

Aside from Ingimarsson’s exit, Jewell says there have been no new developments on transfers either in or out.

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Blue041273 added 22:34 - Jan 7 Gorse/Ipswichtil1die Pj should have let things stand. Pretty much all of PJ's signings haven't worked out. Are we to pay them all off? No, we need to make them see out their contracts. As we saw with Lee Martin, circumstances change and redemption is possible. With Ivar however PJ blew his bridges with his overt criticisms and a parting of the ways was inevitable. I'm not necessarily a PJ sacker but his man management skills in this situation were on the face of it pretty woeful.

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blrmy added 22:49 - Jan 7 Only footballers get the contract paid off when sacked, crazy crazy profession.
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scooterblue added 23:43 - Jan 7 thanks for your efforts Ivar. hope you find youself a new club.
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pastystringbean added 23:44 - Jan 7 Paul jewell is an idiot.
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AndyStannard added 08:25 - Jan 8 Poor lad couldn't hack a bit of criticism! Hope you enjoyed your last game of football ivar
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DiamondGezzer added 08:37 - Jan 8 Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I just wonder if its a case of, one wage out and one wage in ? Someone new on the horizon ?
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righty added 10:30 - Jan 8 Ipswichtill1die must be Clegg in diguise
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bigfatjoe added 11:31 - Jan 8 Thats one pensioner off the payroll!
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buryblue77 added 12:41 - Jan 8 That is now three players who have had their contracts terminated this season. Civelli, Healy and now Ingimarsson. What exactly is going on?
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Warkys_Tash added 23:25 - Jan 8 Sorry Ingi but Good Riddance! Worse CB at Town since John Scales & Mark Fish. Why the F, do we have to pay up his contract? If I performed that bad at work, I would be sacked with no pay off - its boardering on Criminal!!
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davnunn added 13:42 - Jan 9 What was the urgency to fire him now, when we have only two CBs fit (and one of those suffering a crisis of confidence)?
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