Former Manchester United keeper Roy Carroll, who has been training with the Blues during his Danish club Odense’s winter break, wants a return to English football. Blues boss Roy Keane revealed that his one-time Old Trafford team-mate was at Playford Road last week but insisted that the 33-year-old was not amongst his January targets.
Contrary to reports in Denmark, Odense’s director of football Thomas Christensen says no talks have been held with a view to cancelling his keeper’s contract and he is expected back in Scandinavia next week: "He will start training on Monday, just like anybody else.
"There have been no negotiations between Roy and us regarding releasing him from his contract. It is only in the press that this has been the case."
However, Christensen says Carroll’s situation may change before the end of the month: "Roy has got our full understanding for wanting to return home, but his contract still runs for another year and a half. But anything can happen and the transfer window is open for quite a while yet."
Although Town keeper Brian Murphy is out for three months with a broken ankle, another senior glovesman would appear an unlikely Blues target at the present time.
Speaking last week, Keane played down any suggestion of Carroll joining Town: "Roy lives in London and Odense are on a mid-winter break, so he’s training with us before you all start thinking we’re signing him or he’s one of the targets.”