Town boss Mick McCarthy says he wants to keep on-loan Manchester United midfielder Ryan Tunnicliffe for the rest of the season. The 20-year-old’s current spell is up in January.
"The decision, from my point of view, has been made and I want to keep him,” McCarthy confirmed. "I’ve tried to ring Moyesey but he’s busy and it doesn’t need to be done yet. His agent knows we want to keep him, Tunners knows I want to keep him. We’ll see what happens.
"I guess the only way it won’t happen is if they want to take him back and put him in the team or if they want to take him back and put him out at a Premier League club, which could happen, but we knew that at the start. Hopefully, he’ll be with us.”
The Town boss refused to be drawn on reports he is keen on signing Emmanuel Frimpong on loan from Arsenal in January, having previously signed the 21-year-old midfielder on a similar basis when in charge at Wolves.
"I wouldn’t tell you if he was,” he said. "I had him at Wolves, but I wouldn’t tell you because that’s unfair.
"An agent’s put it out that I’m looking at people, but you can take all that with a pinch of salt unless you’ve heard it from me.”
The Town boss says he has no immediate plans to loan out any of his other strikers having added Sylvan Ebanks-Blake to his squad: "Not really unless one of them isn’t playing and needs a month’s football. It might be beneficial if that happens, but at the minute that’s not the case.
"Why try and pre-empt anything like that? Let’s see. If I get a couple of injuries to them, I’m down to three strikers, and it can happen as easy as that.”