Town boss Paul Jewell says he is set for further talks with owner and chairman Marcus Evans in the next few days as the Blues look to finalise their transfer plans for the season ahead. Jewell, Evans and chief executive Simon Clegg held a five-hour meeting at the owner’s European headquarters in Dublin last Wednesday.
Jewell said: "I spoke to the owner last week in Ireland and I am meeting with him again over the next few days to talk over the final figures. So I should know more next week.
"I have given the owner a list of players that I think we should be in for and at the end of the day the football decisions are down to me and the financial decisions are down to him.
"So we will be getting our heads together and trying to work things out. I’m sure we can move forward.”
The Blues boss has previously said he has "four or five” players in mind and specifically wants to add one or two frontmen to his squad but doesn’t expect wholesale changes with most of the current players wanting to remain at Portman Road.
Jewell says that even though he has particular additions in mind, he also has alternatives if he can’t get them: "We have to be specific, but it’s just not one player we are going for.
"We’ve got a number of players in a number of positions that we are trying to get, some we’ll get and some we won’t. I want to improve and add to the squad, but I’m not here to dismantle the whole squad at all.”
Today is the final day that Football League clubs can sign players on loan with some movement in and out of Portman Road likely before the 5pm cut-off.
Southend want defender Troy Brown, while Swansea are understood to be targeting Tamás Priskin, while Jewell has said the Blues have made a couple of enquiries.