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McCarthy Delighted to Keep Duo
Tuesday, 2nd Sep 2014 12:38

Boss Mick McCarthy is delighted that David McGoldrick and Tyrone Mings were still Town players as the transfer window closed last night, having been targeted by Premier League Leicester City and Crystal Palace.

“The transfer window passed with a whimper didn't it, after it looked like it could be a busy day,” McCarthy said in a longer interview with Ipswich Player.

The Town boss admitted that he thought it was likely that McGoldrick would move on with the Foxes having had what is understood to have been a £6.5 million offer turned down last week and then a subsequent bid believed to have been £7 million rebuffed yesterday.

Although not commenting on specific figures, the Blues have confirmed that the offer, if it had been accepted, would have been second biggest incoming fee in the club's history.

Connor Wickham was sold to Sunderland for an initial £8.1 million in the summer of 2011, while Kieron Dyer joined Newcastle for a fee which eventually rose to £6.5 million in the summer of 1999. Reports that the Blues were asking £11 million for McGoldrick yesterday are understood to be wide of the mark.

“I thought Didz might be on his way to Leicester,” he added. “I said that on Saturday but [owner] Marcus [Evans] didn’t ever want it to happen. He turned down a substantial amount of money and the deal fell through.

“Obviously I’m delighted that Didz is staying. I’ve got a player that I thought I might be without so it’s a good ‘signing’ for us in the window!”

Crystal Palace, who were also linked with a move for McGoldrick, made a £2.5 million offer for 21-year-old left-back Tyrone Mings, which was also rejected.

“I spoke to Neil Warnock,“ McCarthy continued. “He asked about Tyrone and I told him what a good player he is and that I didn’t want to lose him.

“That didn’t deter their interest. It often doesn’t in football and they made a substantial bid for him.

“Marcus deals with the finances and he didn’t want to lose him either so he’s still with us and I’m delighted with that because he’s a good player.”

It’s understood that the possibility of Jonny Williams returning to the Blues on loan was mooted as potentially being part of a proposed offer for Mings. The Wales international may well be close to the top of McCarthy’s loan wish-list when Football League clubs are able to sign players on ‘emergency’ loans from September 9th.

Meanwhile, Town’s U21s, who drew 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday last night, will play a behind closed doors friendly at West Ham on Thursday afternoon.


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MVBlue added 12:41 - Sep 2
We missed Didz at the end of last season, could have made 6th with him. Heres hoping we can do it this time.
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KuqiCoup added 12:47 - Sep 2
We could have potentially had substantial cash plus Williams on loan for a player I don't even think should be in the side. But hell McCarthy and Warnock rate him so I must be wrong.

I've never said Mings won't make it. He has so many attributes going for him. However, with Parr in the squad I just don't think Mings is far enough down the line development wise to be a regular at this level yet.

Let's hope (silly / disrespectful behaviour aside yesterday) Tyrone gains confidence from this bid, knuckles down and makes us glad we didn't accept an offer of several million by going on to be a serious asset and only rising in value.
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Devereuxxx added 12:47 - Sep 2
I'm delighted that Didz is staying, mostly because his creative flair wouldn't have been replaced due to the time constraints.

Would like to know how much Palace offered for Mings though, as anything over £1.5m i would have taken, we could replace him easily for that. Parr should be first choice anyway.

I do find it odd that a club with the perceived financial problems we have are rejecting substantial offers for players though. Far from saying I want us to me a selling club, it doesn't add up with the reports that there is no money available. If the club needed money so badly surely we would have cashed in.
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Jimmy86 added 12:47 - Sep 2
Hopefully wont have an adverse effect on the 2 of them. Mings is seemingly getting quite big headed and this rejected bid could inflate his ego more than what it already is. He is a player with huge potential, but is far from the finished article and is lucky to start ahead of Parr in my opinion. Rejecting the didz offer is a massive gamble too, hopefully sign ambrose/collison or both as free agents. Squad is very thin on the ground
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MattinLondon added 12:48 - Sep 2
Wonder how the players must be feeling knowing that they could well have been premier league players.
If both players play well and we are midtable then maybe both will be sold then.
Guess its always a compliment when top flight clubs want our players. Been a while since that has happened.
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TriumphBlue added 12:52 - Sep 2
I am not entirely convinced having someone who doesn't know about football deciding whether we should sell our players!

The money for McG and TM if invested could have bought us some decent players across areas that need strengthening throughout the whole team.

If ME doesn't now follow this up with investment in loan players, I am afraid Mings and McGoldrick won't win us promotion alone.
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JimmyJazz added 12:58 - Sep 2
This shows that ME won't accept low bids for players - at last we have someone like that!! Ipswich history is full of low bids accepted for top players

They could both be thinking they could be Premier League now, but as first team players or benchwarmers? McGoldrick left for Forest on a big fee and that didn't work out for him, who's to say the same wouldn't have happened again - even at Leicester?

Mings for 2.5 million?? Anyone else think we may have undersold Cresswell then?
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linhdi added 13:16 - Sep 2
Turning down close on £10m is a huge sign of ME's commitment to the club! And proof, if it were ever needed, that there's no crisis of debt. Just as importantly, we have kept two of our best players. Tyrone was massive at Derby and is only going to improve...
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bluefeast added 13:17 - Sep 2
we will regret not letting both go no doubt about it. Mings is a centre half , dids in in last year of contract. If we rate him at 8 million his agent will be saying , offer him a new 4 year deal worth 2 million a year as that is your valuation of him. Simple ,naive and stupid
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PhilTWTD added 13:27 - Sep 2
bluefeast

McGoldrick isn't in the last year of his contract.
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Len_Brennan added 13:34 - Sep 2
Bottom line here is we are not going to be perceived as a selling club, & one that sells for below the actual worth of the player, anymore after this.
I'm not sure how much exactly Didz should be valued at in the transfer market, but I'm pleased that we are in a position where he is not sold just because someone is interested. The Ulloa deal was clearly a big factor here, and rightly so.
It's fair to say that McGoldrick performed as impressively in the Championship (we might say more so) as Ulloa last season and therefore should at least be valued the same. The fact that the bid comes in so late in the window, not allowing us to get a replacement (as Brighton did with Baldock), makes Didz even more valuable to us. Therefore why should we sell, to the same club remember, for anything less than the £8m they paid Brighton. Well done Marcus.
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Alwaysablue added 13:50 - Sep 2
OHHHH DAVID MCGOLDRICK
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Nthsuffolkblue added 14:05 - Sep 2
But, Bluefeast, Mings is a left back who somebody bizarrely suggested is better as a CH. He is NOT a Centre Half and even if he was, he is young and will only improve. If clubs are prepared to pay £2.5M for his potential now and MM with his experience is happy to advise ME not to sell just how good can he become? If we can get 2 more good seasons out of him as back up growing into a first team regular then we can see whether we need the money available for him then. Also, he will benefit from being so close to the first team at this level for a couple of years instead of being lost amongst a Premier League squad and maybe loaned out to League 1.

As for sale value equalling wage value that is ruled out by the club's wage structure so his agent will be well aware of the futility of such a line. The agent will be better off re-negotiating the current contract so he takes less from the club but gets a release clause of £8-10M ready for when clubs like Leicester and Palace are even more desperate in January.
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Pilgrimblue added 14:08 - Sep 2
Not sure about mings deal as don't think he'd be in their first team so more likely to be loaned out. I rate him but as CB and thought Smith's departure was more likely.
hopefully this will not affect either Didz or Tyrone and that they will realise their potential with Town. They're both young enough to make it another time anyway.
But it's good that ME stood firm and that means more to us than the money and further disruption to the team.
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Nthsuffolkblue added 14:12 - Sep 2
A very good comparison, Len Brennan. McGoldrick is younger, started at the notoriously successful Southampton academy and has much more experience of English football. We took the gamble (and proved right) that his time at Forest was the exception to the rule. Now we reap the rewards of that (either from the player or from the right fee). If McGoldrick remains upset with anyone it should be Leicester for not being prepared to value him higher than Ulloa in the first place.
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PinstripeBlue added 14:15 - Sep 2
I have seen improvement in the Emperor since the start of the season and a good run in the team. He can only get better.
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Lightningboy added 14:27 - Sep 2
Personally I would've liked to have seen a straight swap between Mings and Williams.
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afcfee added 14:48 - Sep 2
how can people say 'top flight' clubs I mean c palace and leicster c'mon
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bohslegend added 14:54 - Sep 2
Triumphblue, what makes you think:
a). that ME never consulted with MM on just how good these players are and
b). that you are way more enlightened than our owner and your opinion counts for more?
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charsfield added 15:04 - Sep 2
i guess they're seeing potential i'm not, but £2.5m + williams for Mings seems like one hell of a deal when we have Parr waiting in reserve, especially if he's going to start sulking now (although i'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt about that)
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 15:52 - Sep 2
Sorry, what have I missed? What evidence do we have that Mings is "sulking"? (Genuine question!) If it's just that someone thinks he looks a bit glum in a picture, then that doesn't stand up in court. He's allowed to have a reaction, maybe disappointment, but how he gets over it will show the man. Anyway, he seems like a good lad to me. I'm glad he's staying.
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happybeingblue added 16:48 - Sep 2
pleased that mings is staying as i really like him... i am not sure what his preferred posistion is but if it is centre back then he is really doing well as i remember tommy smith playing left back under keane and delaney when he first arrived and they looked totally uncomfortable so fair play to him....stay with itfc grow as a player and your time will come.hopefully with us :)
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Nuggets added 17:27 - Sep 2
Personally, I think the club did the right thing in keeping the players, particularly as both offers were tabled with hours left of the transfer window. By selling McGoldrick and Mings at such short notice, and with the squad as short as it is, we'd be left in a difficult position until January. We don't have a lot of options, there's no immediate guarantee the money would have been reinvested, or that we would have signed somebody, and we inevitably would have relied far too heavily on the loan market.

Mings is a young player, and he has a lot of potential. The £2.5m bid, at this stage in his career, was an eye-opener, and Jonny Williams thrown in on loan for three months was not a bad sweetener. However, Mings is a defender with a lot of potential. For me, he was one of a couple of players (ironically the other being McGoldrick) to come out of the Norwich match with any credit. He's evidently going to get more playing time, that leads to development and, hopefully with consistent form, he'd be worth a lot more than that in the years to come.

As for McGoldrick, it's highly unlikely we'll see that sort of bid thrown in the direction of Portman Road anytime soon, particularly if McGoldrick refuses to sign a new contract. In this mercurial, money-driven world of football, loyalty and courtesy from a footballer is a rare sign, but I have hopes McGoldrick will sign a new contract and be emboldened to continue his rich vein of goalscoring form. Obviously time will tell whether the club should have accepted the deal, but it's a statement of intent to turn it down and, with McGoldrick arguably being our best player, it reverses the recent trend of us selling off our best players whenever a decent offer comes in. As I mentioned, with the bid being tabled so close to the deadline, it would not have left Mick with a lot of time to sign a replacement. Without McGoldrick, it is difficult to see where the goals will come from.
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blues1 added 17:35 - Sep 2
nthsuffolkblue. mings is a cb who can play at left back too. would love to know who started the rumour that hes becoming bigheaded. some1 posted that on hre no doubt, and others now believing it. lightningboy. im sure wed all have loved a straight swap with mings for Williams but as when swansea enquired about Williams earlier in the summer they were quoted £8m I don't think that was gonna happen, do you? while im happy enough that they both remained here, I do have to wonder if it was the right decision to turn down those kind of offers, but its done now and I for 1 will back that decision. lets hope it the right one tho
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dirtydingusmagee added 17:37 - Sep 2
i am pleased the players are still with us , hopefully throughout the season. ,However i suspect if they maintain decent form we will be facing the threat of losing them again in January ,im sure the players will be giving their all regardless . COYB
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