The final day of the transfer window came and went without any moves in or out of Portman Road, as promised by manager Roy Keane over the weekend, despite one or two rumours throughout the day.
A newspaper report in Leicester linked the Foxes with a move for Town defender Damien Delaney, but there seemed to be little in the story, while late claims that Sunderland’s Andy Reid was in the vicinity of Portman Road proved similarly illusory.
Persistant Welsh reports that Town are chasing Cardiff’s Stephen McPhail could ultimately prove to have something truth to them with the Football League’s ‘emergency’ loan window opening next Tuesday and with Blues boss Roy Keane understood to want to add a midfielder to his squad.
Championship managers will also take a keen interest in the players omitted from Premier League clubs’ 25-man squads, which are announced tomorrow at 5pm.
Town fans will probably be most grateful to see the transfer window close with Connor Wickham not amongst the many players exiting Portman Road, while Jason Scotland, Mark Kennedy, Márton Fülöp, Conor Hourihane and loanees Andros Townsend and Darren O'Dea have joined the club in recent weeks.