Cardiff City boss Dave Jones has confirmed that left-back Mark Kennedy is set to join the Blues. News of Town's move for the former Irish international first broke on Friday.
Jones says Kennedy will sign a two-year deal at Portman Road with the sides understood to have agreed a £75,000 fee: "Sparky was offered a two-year contract at Ipswich and they came in with an offer. We think it’s good business for us considering he's 35 [sic] and with only a year on his contract. It's also a sensible move for him, so it makes sense bearing in mind those two factors.”
Kennedy, 34, is believed to have been at Portman Road on Friday and Saturday to discuss personal terms with the move likely to be completed early in the week.
Meanwhile, Jones says Michael Chopra’s comments regarding Cardiff’s current situation have been overhyped: "Chops was foolish to say what he said. He thought he was helping out but he did it the wrong way. He knows he's made a mistake.
"I think his performance today [in a 2-1 friendly defeat at Notts County] showed how committed he is to the club and he's hurting because things aren't going our way right now. Sometimes you've got to put up and shut up though and that's what he's done this afternoon.
"It's been made a bigger issue than what it is - what we want now is to start hearing some positive things come out. There's so much rubbish being written about us at the moment in general."