The final day on which Football League clubs can sign players on emergency loans has got off to a quiet start on the Town front with a claim the Blues and Middlesbrough are chasing £2 million-rated Hearts left-back Lee Wallace the only link in this morning’s tabloids. Clubs have until 5pm today to add to their squads.
Wallace, who Town couldn’t sign until January when the transfer window opens in any case as he currently plays in a foreign league, was previously mentioned in connection with a switch to Portman Road earlier in the month, although Roy Keane subsequently dismissed the claim as nothing more than "speculation”.
Keane has said he is targeting a striker and another player before today’s deadline. At Tuesday’s AGM he revealed that the frontman he is after is currently playing for a club outside the Premier League.
Yesterday, sources in Cumbria reported that Carlisle had turned down a Town bid to sign former Leeds and Ireland defender Ian Harte.