we'll be the first to know? surely clegg and keane will be the first to know? followed by the players concerned. so, the media (assume that's who Clegg is referring to) will be the third to know.

enough of your lies Clegg!

Lets hope keane don't get one

MyBlueHeaven- can't beleive you can spin a negative out this. Shocking!

“It also won't surprise you that players aspire to more money, and where's the money going to come from?”

Er, Marcus Evans hopefully. He bought the club, so he should continue to invest surely?

The bloke talks entirely in cliches and jargon. Cleggy Britass should go back to running a municiple sports centre. Also, his dithering is clearly the reason no action has been taken yet.

I would hope that Clegg had made the decisions about these players by now. I would have been amazed if he hadnt even considered the 21 (!) players which are out of contract.

When is Clegg's contract up?

Offering them contracts is one thing, the players accepting them is another.

We should definitely keep MacAuley and Norris. Luke Hyam, Troy Brown, Tom Eastman, Reggie Lambe, and Ronan Murray are all still young and have great potential, so they should also be kept on. Give Delaney and Edwards the rest of the season to see if they can still bring anything to the first team and Lee-Barrett if he is still happy to be a back up keeper.

The rest haven't really been anywhere near the first team this year and keeping them on wouldn't help anyone.

Brian Murphy, Gareth McAuley, Damien Delaney, Carlos Edwards, David Norris, Arran Lee-Barrett, Ian McLoughlin, Alan Quinn, Luke Hyam, Troy Brown, Tom Eastman, Colin Healy, Billy Clark, Reggie Lambe, Ronan Murray, Jack Ainsley, David Cawley, Jamie Griffiths and Conor Hourihane, plus Pablo Couñago and Kevin Lisbie

McAuley and Norris are the players we really need to keep from the experienced ones, Ithink each youngster will be assessed and if we have better coming through then move them on...also its time now to either sell or sort Wickham out sign him untill he is 23 or sell for 8million

Mungo what has edwards done the times I have seen him he has done well as good as some of the others he would get a contract from me

I hope the Wickham-man is , got to keep his value up

Clegg said: “We know whose contracts are coming to an end and Roy, myself and the owner are agreed on who we want to keep.

keane should be the only one to say who he wants to keep not clegg or evans.
i think alot of decisions are out of keanes hand evans only seems to have keane at the club as a marketing tool.

truckertractorboy - I've nothing against Edwards. He is good on his day but by the same yardstick can be pretty anonymous at times. My main concern is that he is likely to be at the top end of the wage scale and that, come the end of the season, other options may be available for a lower wage. By his own admission he hasn't quite made the impact that was expected when he arrived, which is why I advocate giving him until the end of the season to establish himself as a key player.

New contracts for Pablo, Quinn, McAuley, Ainsley, Brown, Eastman, Hyam & Lambe please.

"If the manager wants to bring in players in January then he will have the opportunity to do that."

No doubt it will be another window where we go in for a player, see that his wages are too high and duck out of it, such was our pre-season. So another window bringing in a lower calibre than needed for a proper playoff push. Exciting times at Portman Road eh?

Think they ALL need to show they deserve more money! Win some effing games! Apparently we've got some good players, apparently we've got an ex international, champions league winner and promotion winner as a manger and apparently we've got and ex olympic commitee member who masterminded the London olympic bids.

How about you all stop effing about, get on with you effing jobs and show the effing potential you have, most importantly WIN SOME EFFING GAMES!!!!!!!

If not i'm sure the Army could use some volounteers for mine clearance in Afganistan! Then see how difficult your effing jobs really are!!!

Rant over.

well we have almost certainly signed rory on a perm in the new window . Whoop whoop. Quality !

Spot on tractaboy; I for one am tired of living in this surreal bubble where the belief is that somehow we are a top team; every time a young player breaks into the first team we tell ourselves they're about to be snapped up by Barcelona/Man Utd for some vast some of money - witness 'Danny Haynes to Arsenal/West Ham for £3mill' and now 'Wickham to Liv/Tot for £10mill' - farce, absolute farce. Whenever we speculate about an new manager it's Martin O'Neill or Alan Curbishley -what the f...........

WAKE UP - our club has slipped to a bottom third Championship side that plays in front of 16-17,000 fans.

Derby and Leicester were relegated in 2002 with us (Derby have since been back to the prem), Southampton, Charlton and Middlesbrough survived that year but were relegated AFTER us (i.e. more succesful than us in relative terms) and two of them are in the third division now!!! do they have similar dillusions as us??? Do Charlton expect Martin O'Neill to be their next manager or that their young emerging player is worth £10mill to Man U?? I very much doubt it.

Portsmouth, Southampton, Wimbledon (who don't even exist) and Coventry have won the FA cup since we won it - are they rightfully better than us??

We're now in our 9th season in the second tier of English football; we spent the vast majority of last season at the bottom of the table; and are now headed there - fast!

Can we please stop this rhetoric about being something we're not - it's frankly embarassing and dillusional - this is a dead parrot (no it's not - it's a top english football club etc etc).

To continue in tractaboys vein; less rhetorical cr#p and some effing evidence that we are 'big club' or whatever the hell we think we are. 3 points on saturday please against the bottom club would be a good start.

Get rid of the whole damn lot of them. Total crap. Keane out.

Okay, If I am reading this right. Excluding the loanees, we have 21 players who are out of contract at the end of this season. Who are the 21? Of this 21 the club are already in talks with those they want to keep. So of the 21 how many are in, on fringes of first team. So this means if the club does not want to keep some of these players they are not in talks with them.

As a player whose contract is up at the end of the season, who is not in talks with the club to have that extended I have two choices. play well to get spotted elsewhere, or dont give a damn and just get paid and not pay for the club, or not try to hard if i do play as ai know i will not be here next season.

I am at a loss why this has been made public unless they are a) trying to annoy some players, b) happy to lose the players they dont want.

Nice cake, Daleyitfc. Did you make that then?
BTW, BecclesBlue500, Southampton have NOT won the FA Cup since we did, Wimbledon do exist (albeit as Franchise club MK Dons), otherwise I agree with you - we follow a medium sized club with a fading history of greatness that we cannot expect to return to, perhaps ever.
Mind you, I don't think any of us are as deluded as Sepp Blatter!

i fear we may be about to see the same penny pinching that cost us god-knows-how-many new signings last summer now spill over into the existing team as even those few strong players we still have are advised by their agents to move on rather than stay at ITFC & work for less than they could get elsewhere ( and possibly a lot less ) chances are "if" we get any new players at all in january, they are likely to be more league 1 & 2 cast offs rather than anyone who can make a serious difference at this level.

Blue Jack

Are you always this upbeat?

I think Blue Jack's biggest issue is that he (I assume a he) doesn't give himself time to pause. Not a full stop and just the one comma in that posting.

No wonder he is down.