McCarthy: Offers Upped But No Nearer Third Signing - Ipswich Town News

Town boss Mick McCarthy says the Blues have upped the offers they’ve made for players but as yet are no nearer making a third addition of the transfer window.

McCarthy, who so far has signed striker Kieffer Moore from Forest Green Rovers and free agent right-back Jordan Spence, said on Saturday that Town had made "three or four one million pound-plus bids in for players, but they’ve all been kiboshed”.

He says the Blues are currently no nearer to securing a further signing: "No, not at all. You can’t force it, they’re not free, the ones I’ve been able to get are the ones I can do.

"The other ones, trying to buy them is proving extremely difficult, as I predicted, actually.”

Have Town gone back to the players' clubs with bigger offers? "I’ve left that with [owner] Marcus [Evans], I think we’ve gone back to the clubs and increased them. They’re are other teams in as well. The ones who have got anybody to sell are in a pretty good position.

"When you think about Brentford maybe selling Hogan for £15 million, that kind of works its way down in terms of cost of replacing one in the Championship, so everything seems to be more expensive than it was.”

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