Stead Expects Summer Exit - Ipswich Town News
Striker Jon Stead says he expects he'll leave the Blues in the summer if Roy Keane remains as Town manager. The former England U21 international is currently on loan at Coventry City.
Stead said: "I think everything will depend on whether Ipswich make any changes in the summer and whether the manager is still there for next season.
"If he is, I will be moving I would have thought. I can't see him wanting to keep me if he has allowed me to go out on loan. I will have to gauge that at the end of the season. Once you go into pre-season, decisions will be made."
Stead says he will spend the summer back in Suffolk with his wife set to give birth to their first child: "The baby will be born in Ipswich because we have got a house still there and I don't know what is going to happen next season. We'll live down there over May and June and some of July and see what happens.”
The frontman, who has scored twice in nine starts and one sub appearance for the Sky Blues, joined Town from Sheffield United for £600,000 in the summer of 2008 and has another year left on his Town contract.
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