Colback is Loan Target - Ipswich Town News
Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback is the loan player Roy Keane is hoping to bring to Portman Road next week. The Blues boss revealed yesterday that he is close to making another temporary signing from a Premier League club.
Keane’s move for Colback, who was hugely impressive during his season-long loan with the Blues last year, comes as no surprise with the Town boss saying in back in May: "I’d take Jack back, of course. He’s been voted the Player of the Year by the players and that tells you how highly we all think of him.
"The boy’s still a kid but if there was a chance of Jack coming back here next season, Brucey knows where I stand on that — we’d take him here with open arms.”
Colback returned to the Stadium of Light for the final day of 2009/10, picking up a red card on his Premier League debut for the Black Cats.
After serving a one-match ban, Colback has been on the bench for all Sunderland’s games this season, but so far has made only one more appearance, in the Carling Cup victory over Colchester United.
Black Cats boss Steve Bruce has previously said that Colback will be part of his first team squad this season, however, Roy Keane’s one-time Manchester United team-mate said much the same about striker Martyn Waghorn, who he recently allowed to move to Leicester City on a permanent basis.
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