Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’ll address the situations of loanees Emyr Huws, Toumani Diagouraga and Dominic Samuel and short-term signing Jordan Spence at the end of the season but indicated that it’s unlikely that Jonny Williams will return to Portman Road next season after another injury-hit loan spell from Crystal Palace.
Asked whether Diagouraga, who is on loan from Leeds, was one he’d consider signing in the summer, McCarthy said: "No, not at the moment. I just want to get through to the two games, to be honest with you.
"Toums has done well, as has [on-loan Cardiff midfielder] Emyr [Huws] coming in. They helped steady the ship for a while there and they’ve both been good for us. I’ll talk to them about that.”
Regarding on-loan Reading striker Samuel, who made his full Town debut at Rotherham last week, the Town boss said: "I like Dom and we’ll have to chat to Reading about that.”
He added: "Until the last game of the season, it’s a bit premature to be talking about them.”
McCarthy says he’s been delighted with right-back Spence, who joined on a deal to the end of the season in January following a trial earlier in the campaign.
"He’s done very well, I’ve been really pleased with Jordan and we’ll talk to him and see what he wants to do and speak to his agent as well,” he continued.
Quizzed on whether Williams, who has made only one start and seven sub appearances during this season’s loan spell and has been ruled out of the remaining two games with a hamstring problem, might return to the Blues next season, McCarthy said it’s unlikely.
"I wonder whether he’d want to come here, he’s had nothing but injuries,” he reflected. "He was so fabulous the first time he came here, wonderfully gifted and lit the place up with his ability and his pace and trickery and with the smile on his face as well while doing it.
"I’ll never forget his goal against Derby. He was outstanding but that’s not happened since and we’ve had him on two other occasions, he’s just been injured, which is really sad.
"Sad for us and I guess for the club and the fans because everybody loved him, but even sadder for him that his career’s stalled.
"I don’t think that’s going to be the case. I think he’s got a year left to run at Crystal Palace and I think it’s a big year for Jonny. He needs to go and play somewhere and play regularly.”
McCarthy has previously said Town have no chance of signing 11-goal top scorer Tom Lawrence, who is on loan from Leicester, in the summer and expects the Wales international to move on to another Premier League club.