Boss Mick McCarthy says Town paying fees is a “possibility” as he looks to add to his squad ahead of the start of the season.

The Blues’ only additions so far this summer are central defender Adam Webster, who joined from Portsmouth for £700,000 plus Matt Clarke, and fellow centre-half Paul Digby, who signed on a permanent basis from Town’s opening day opponents Barnsley following his loan at the end of 2015/16.

“We’re still trying, hopefully I’m going to get them in before the season starts,” McCarthy said.

Asked whether there is money available for fees or if all deals will be free transfers or loans, he added: “That’s another possibility, if it’s the right players, the right deal.”

Looking back at the weeks since the players returned from their summer break at the end of June, McCarthy says he’s pleased to have virtually a fully fit squad, a couple of minor niggles aside.

“I tell you every pre-season, it’s about getting everybody through and fit, and we’ve just about done that,” he said.

“We’ve got Pits that’s got a sore toe, Luke Hyam’s got a sore knee, other than that we’re all right.

“Bish has got through it and Murph and Didz, so we’re getting to August 6th, hopefully, with a fully fit squad.

“I think our games have been decent. I watched Wimbledon against Palace last night and I thought that had a really slow tempo to it.

“And I think we’ve played some decent stuff. I thought against Charlton the other night we played well but we just couldn’t score. Brett hit the cross-bar twice, Chambo had two chances so we’ve changed his contact lenses since then.

“I thought we played well, I was pleased with that performance and Bart never really had anything to do.”

He says Town didn’t create as many opportunities in all their friendlies: “We haven’t created that many chances, although I thought we did against Charlton.

“It’s up to us to create them, perhaps we didn’t have Murph in the team a couple of times or we didn’t put enough crosses in.

“At Barnet we lost to a penalty and that was a bit of a nothing game. We were just getting there.

“Cambridge, I thought we had enough chances to win that and gave away a really bad goal at the end, which infuriated me as anybody who saw me afterwards would have known.

“And I thought at Charlton we played well and created chances, we just didn’t score them.”

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The_Romford_Blue added 05:23 - Jul 30 Stewart has done well to be fair in pre season to the person who moaned about him. Liked his calmness on the ball when he came on against Charlton
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HALLSJ added 06:19 - Jul 30 10 million for Mccormack the scum are welcome to him at that price!!
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Ipswichbusiness added 12:10 - Jul 30 Romford blue; if Januzaj is on anything like that sort of money they can keep him!
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plasticfork123 added 13:48 - Jul 30 Jonathon Leko might be worth a look, only 17 and killed defences in the last few games of the season for West Brom. Only a loan move I would assume, but low wages and I'm sure they would be willing to let him go, add another winger!
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