McCarthy and Evans Set to Meet to Discuss Future Plans Ahead of Busy Summer - Ipswich Town News
Town boss Mick McCarthy has a meeting planned with owner Marcus Evans where they will discuss their plans going forward and says “there’s every chance” that it’ll be a busy summer of comings and goings at Portman Road.
He says the planning for next season now starts in earnest with the Blues having confirmed their Championship status for a 16th season by beating Newcastle United 3-1 at Portman Road on Monday.
"It’s been tentative before being completely safe,” he said. "I’ll sit down and talk to Marcus now about what we want to do, what he wants to do, what I want to do. And hopefully we can come up with something.
"But there’s a real opportunity to freshen it up because there are a lot of players out of contract and we’ve quite a few players on loan.
"Do they want to stay? Do we want them? Can we have them? Can we sign them? There will be all those things. We’ll be losing a few players.”
McCarthy says he expects a busy summer - "There’s every chance” - once he has talked to Evans but wouldn’t be drawn on when that meeting will take place.
"When I sit down and talk to him,” he said. "There is a date, I’m just not telling you because you’d be in my earhole then asking me what’s happening. You’ll find out what’s happening as opposed to when it’s happening and when we’re discussing it.
McCarthy says he hasn’t had a chance to talk to any players about contracts or options on their deals since Monday: "No, because we’ve not been in. This is the first day back.”
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