The final day of the transfer window is expected to pass very quietly at Portman Road with no further signings anticipated before today’s 6pm deadline.
Speaking on Friday manager Mick McCarthy said there was one deal still to be done and the signing of Australian winger Tommy Oar on a free transfer was confirmed on Saturday.
The Town boss added that some of his fringe players - such as Michael Crowe, Myles Kenlock, Josh Yorwerth, Josh Emmanuel or Kyle Hammond - could go out on loan but there would be no rush to do deals of that type with Football League and Vanarama National League clubs able to sign players on an emergency loan basis from next week.
McCarthy also revealed that winger Alex Henshall is available for transfer having failed to break back into the first-team squad this season.
"Alex is available for transfer, he’s certainly not going to get in in front of the other lads and I think it’s time he moved on, and I’ve told him that,” he said, speaking to Ipswich Player.
Having made 12 loan or permanent additions during the transfer window - Jonas Knudsen, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Brett Pitman, James Alabi, Ryan Fraser, Giles Coke, Piotr Malarczyk, Jonathan Douglas, Josh Yorwerth, Larsen Touré, Jonathan Henly and Oar - McCarthy also said he was unlikely to look at adding loan players to his squad once the emergency provision is available.
"I doubt very much I’ll be entering into that, not when I get Christophe, Murph, Bish, Kevin Bru and Jonny Parr back to go with the ones that we’ve got,” he said. "I’ll probably have a squad of 23. I won’t need anybody else.”
Meanwhile, tickets for the Capital One Cup tie at Manchester United on Wednesday 23rd September went on sale to Gold members this morning at 9am. Full priority and pricing can be found here.