Boss Mick McCarthy has confirmed he is looking to add to his defensive options during the January window, TWTD having revealed that the Blues are targeting former Newcastle United centre-half Steven Taylor earlier today.
Town are understood to be in talks with the 30-year-old free agent, who left MLS side the Portland Timbers after a short spell in December.
Having lost Adam Webster for the rest of the season after he ruptured ankle ligaments in training, an injury which requires surgery, and with Tommy Smith not ready to return after back surgery, McCarthy says is keen to add to his strength at the back.
"I would have let Paul Digby go out on loan to get some football but that won’t happen now,” McCarthy told Ipswich Player HD.
"We need Diggers here. We have had 16 players training this week and that includes the kids.
"We have brought Jordan Spence in. He trained with us before and he did really well but he wasn’t going to play then.
"Things have changed now with the injuries and he can play as a wing-back or as a right sided centre-half in a three. He’s got quality, he’s quick and he has certainly kept himself fit.
"We need bodies in and it’s possible that we might have to do something else at the back. We are certainly having a look.”
Meanwhile, Spence has been given shirt number 12 and fellow new addition Kieffer Moore number 28.
Both are set to travel to Huddersfield tomorrow, while we understand 17-year-old first-year scholar Tristan Nydam also made the trip to West Yorkshire. Nydam featured for the senior side in the friendly at Cambridge in pre-season.