On-loan striker Kevin Lisbie says he doesn’t want to return to the Blues. The 30-year-old joined former club Colchester United on loan in the summer and has scored six goals in 12 games for the League Once side so far this season.
Lisbie was reportedly unwilling to move his family to Suffolk, one of the rules laid down by Roy Keane when he came to the club, although it’s understood that the former Charlton man was renting a flat locally.
The ex-Jamaica international, who featured in both Keane’s games in charge at the end of last season and in pre-season before departing for North Essex, says a return to Portman Road is not in his thoughts: "Once a manager tells you, without seeing you play a single game, that you can go on loan then it becomes very difficult to say that you would want to play for him again.
"I don't want to go back. Even if it came to the point where they wanted me back I think I would speak to both clubs and explain my situation.
"I just felt like the club didn't want me. If I had to go back then I would, but I don't want to be going from club-to-club at this stage of my career.”
Town have the option of a recall in January, but Lisbie, who is contracted to the Blues until 2011, says he would prefer to stay with Colchester in the longer term. The Hackney-born frontman left the U's for Portman Road in the summer of 2008 for a fee of £750,000, scoring seven goals in 26 starts and 19 sub appearances for the Blues.
Meanwhile, midfielder Carlos Edwards says he has no intention of giving up international football at the end of the current World Cup campaign. Edwards will win his 77th and 78th caps during the current international break, but says he has set himself no targets: "I'm proud to play for my country but I'm not going out with the target of reaching 100 caps. If it comes along, then it's a bonus.
"I will carry on doing my best for my country and when the time comes to hang up my boots, then I hope I can say that I have done my bit to not only push my country forward on the football pitch, but also leave Trinidad and Tobago in a good position in the FIFA rankings.
"It's disappointing that we are not going to South Africa next year, but we have some good players coming through and hopefully we can make it to the next finals."