Former Birmingham City owner David Sullivan has claimed he was close to buying Town in 2007 prior to Marcus Evans’s takeover.
Sullivan says Carson Yeung’s failure to complete his move for Birmingham City, which finally went through last week, scuppered the potential deal: "I was very close to buying Ipswich Town.
"I had a two-week window of opportunity but had to pull out because Yeung didn’t come up with the money and the rules prevent me from having financial interest in two clubs.”
Sullivan’s interest in a possible move for Town has long been known, although the club have always denied receiving a firm offer.
At the December 2007 EGM which saw Evans take control of Town, then-chief executive Derek Bowden said: "We said all along that if we received a formal offer from any would-be investor we would take it seriously.
"The fact is the only formal offer we received with a known individual was from Marcus. There was no offer received by the football club from David Sullivan.”
Meanwhile, former Blue Paul Mariner has resigned from his coach’s role at the New England Revolution to take the job of head coach at Plymouth Argyle, the club from whom he joined Town in 1976.