Town boss Roy Keane says discussions are continuing regarding player contracts with two-year deals already offered to David Norris and Gareth McAuley. The Blues boss has revealed that the club has options to keep some of the 21 members of his squad whose terms are up in June beyond the terms of their initial deals.
Asked whether other senior players such as Damien Delaney and Carlos Edwards will also be offered terms, Keane said: "Of course, but that will take care of itself and without going into the ins and outs of it, the club has options to extend the deals of one or two boys, people like Murph the goalkeeper.
"The issue will be the players whose contracts are up and we haven’t got an option on. We’re not just focusing on Gareth and Chuck, there are other decisions to be made on the other boys. There are lots of contracts up in the summer, so there are going to be changes one way or another.”
With players who are out of contract next summer able to talk to rival clubs from January, Keane is aware that other sides will be watching developments closely: "They’ll know the situations we have with Gareth McAuley and David Norris and they might think ‘Listen, we might get a snidey deal done’, who knows?
"I don’t want to be second guessing what’s happening at other clubs, but I know we look at the contract situations of players we might be interested in and think ‘There might be the chance of doing a deal there’.”