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Jewell: Transfer Window is Nonsense - Ipswich Town News

Paul Jewell says the transfer window is a “load of nonsense” which means a month of chaos in the life of a club manager. The Town boss says he will look at adding to his squad via the ‘emergency’ loan route which becomes available next week.

Jewell told the club site: "The transfer window is a load of nonsense really. All you get in the month or so leading up to the deadline is questions about which players you want to bring in or let go. Then you get agents on the phone every minute. It's ridiculous really. The whole month is chaotic.

"People think that's the end of it when the window closes, but it's not. You can go into the loan market after seven days and that's something we will look at.

"I would have liked to added one or two more to the squad but it wasn't to be and, like I said, we will have the loan market to use."

Another striker would appear to be an obvious target with the Blues failing to land Charlie Austin after agreeing a fee for the Swindon frontman, who subsequently joined Burnley.

Jewell admits that his whole side needs to be more prolific, not just the strikers: "I think we need more goals. I don’t think our defensive record is too bad. We don’t score a plethora of goals and I think we can do better all around the pitch.

"That’s not just the front players, at set plays we’ve got to be better, the midfield have to chip in with a few more and also the wide players. It’s not just the forwards.

"At least against Doncaster we created chances, we did look as if we were going to score goals, whereas against Millwall we were a little bit one dimensional. Hopefully the confidence from the Doncaster game will transmit into the rest of the season.”

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