Boss Mick McCarthy says he has high hopes for striker Frank Nouble, who joined the Blues from Wolves for an undisclosed fee in January, signing an 18-month contract. The 21-year-old has so far made six substitute appearances for his new club.
McCarthy said: "I hope we turn him into a player. I think Terry Connor will have a lot to do with it because he worked with him a lot when they were at Wolves.
"I actually was trying to sign him for Wolves before I left and Terry followed it up and did and worked with him there.
"Terry’s excellent working with the centre-forwards. There’s more to him than a big, strong lad that goes on [as sub]. He’s better than that.
"I think he’s got to play to that, to his strengths, but I think he’s a better footballer than that, I think he’s got a lot to offer us.”
He says the one-time Chelsea trainee, who spent time with West Ham before his short-lived move to Molineux in the summer, has the right attitude: "He wants to do well. He’s really ambitious.
"If you look at where he’s been, he’s been to so many clubs out on loan. He’ll admit himself that they put him in the team and he’s done all right and then he hasn’t done all right and they see this big, quick guy that should be this, that and the other and isn’t quite what they think, and then he gets sent back and he doesn’t get worked with.
"We’re working with him and hopefully we’ll get the benefit from him. He’s a great kid and he really wants to do well.”