Blues boss Mick McCarthy says left-back Aaron Cresswell is going nowhere before the transfer window closes at 11pm on Monday as things stand, although he doesn’t entirely rule out the possibility of a move if a club were to make a significant bid before the deadline.
McCarthy said: "Cressy’s not going anywhere. If somebody comes in for Cressy now, they’d be bonkers at this stage because for one we’d be telling them no, and for two if they did it would cost them more money with the time to negotiate a deal.
"Anybody that leaves it as late as this, 1) we’d be telling them no because we don’t want to lose him, 2) because we’d find it difficult to go and find a replacement. OK, Tyrone Mings is there but I want to try and have two players for every position as best we can.
"And 3) it would cost them a shedload more money because they’d left it to the end of the window. And we want him here to progress. We don’t want to be selling our best players.”
Asked whether he could 100 per cent guarantee that the 23-year-old would still be at Town on Tuesday, he added: "How can I say that? What if somebody comes in and offers £5 million up front? Marcus might say ‘We’ll have a bit of that and we’ll get one on loan, Ty should be fit after the window!’.
"I’m not saying he’s up for sale, but every single player has his price. I’m just not stupid, I’m pragmatic. I’m not going to give you thick answers like ‘100 per cent he’s not going to go’, then somebody bids a big load of money and I look a proper chump. I can do that without trying, believe me.”
Meanwhile, former Blues loanee Guirane N’Daw is interesting Sheffield Wednesday and Burnley, as well as a number of Greek clubs. The 29-year-old, who spent the whole of last season at Portman Road, was released by parent club St Etienne at the end of June.