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Jewell: Offer for Doncaster Duo Was a Fair One - Ipswich Town News

Town boss Paul Jewell says he feels the Blues’ £2.6 million bid for Doncaster duo James Coppinger and Billy Sharp which was rejected last week was a fair offer. The Blues manager says the pair are just two players on his list of potential summer signings.

Jewell said: "We made what we felt was a fair offer for the two players. Doncaster turned it down. That's their prerogative.

"We feel they have the qualities that will add something to the squad we have here, but they are just two of a number of transfer targets we have. We're talking to other clubs and we will see what develops from there.

"We are doing our homework on the players we want to bring in but it's important that we have more winners in the dressing room.

"I want a goalscorer or two who will do anything to score a goal. Not just on match day but in training as well. You have to have that hunger from Monday to Friday to score goals, not just on a Saturday. There has not been a 25-goal-a-season striker here for a long time, going back to Darren Bent's days.

"If you have that goalscorer in your team, it makes the team more confident that if we go a goal down, we can get back in the game and win it. I don't think we have that devilment, that type of player who will kick his granny to score a goal."

Town offered Rovers £300,000 for Coppinger and £2.3 million for Sharp. Over the weekend, Doncaster chairman John Ryan said he expected the Blues to return with further offers.

Both players have two years left on their contracts at the Keepmoat Stadium, while Exeter City are entitled to 15% of any profit Doncaster make on the £35,000 they paid for Coppinger, a former Grecians team-mate of Town coach Sean McCarthy, in 2004.

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