Loan signing Gianni Zuiverloon says he has been taking lessons on Town’s Dutch history from fellow Rotterdammer Fabian Wilnis. The West Brom man’s Portman Road stay is unlikely to be anything like as lengthy Wilnis's as he says he’s eyeing a permanent move to another Premier League club in January.
Zuiverloon told Voetbal International that Wilnis has been instructing him on the Town exploits of Arnold Muhren and Frans Thijssen, as well as himself and Martijn Reuser: "For the time being I concentrate on Ipswich Town, a club with a nice tradition and a special history with players from the Netherlands. Fabian Wilnis gave me a small lesson in history last week!”
The 23-year-old hopes his month with Town will help him to win a deal with another top flight club after failing to make a league appearance for the Baggies this season: "My ambition is to play for a club in the Premier League. Last year I played in the Championship with West Brom. That’s not what I like.
"Every match is very fast. Running, rushing and a lack of tactics. In the Premier League there is more time to receive the ball and the football itself is more important.
"I’m short on match action and I want to be fit when a club is interested in me in January. That was the main reason for me choosing to come to Ipswich Town.”
Shortly after his signing, manager Roy Keane said he had no issue with players using their loan spells to impress other interested parties: "I think he went to West Brom for £3.2 million and put it this way, I don’t think we’d pay that for a full-back. I don’t think we’d pay that for a striker at the moment.
"I spoke to the boy, he’s very positive, he knows he can come in and get some games and it might help him to get a move, not to us but to someone else in January.
"Players will use loans as an opportunity to help themselves, and I see no problem with that. If we can help him and he helps us, then we’ll all be happy.”
Zuiverloon's month at Portman Road is due to end on January 4th.
Meanwhile, the Blues, Coventry, Scunthorpe, Charlton and Southampton are claimed to be watching 27-year-old Leyton Orient striker Alex Revell. The former Cambridge man would appear to be an unlikely Town target given the recent loan signing of Rory Fallon from Plymouth.
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