Blues boss Mick McCarthy says Town player contracts are not something for him to deal with now that it has been confirmed he will be leaving the club in the summer.
Midfield duo Teddy Bishop and Luke Hyam are among those whose deals are up but with the club having an option to keep them for a further season, while David McGoldrick’s contract, which includes no clause along those lines, also ends in the summer.
Asked whether he’ll continuing to do ‘housekeeping’ type tasks in the final weeks of his time at Town, McCarthy responded: "To a point. Everything I’ve done up until this point will go forward but I can’t think of anybody else I’ve been recommending for deals.
"Luke Hyam and people who are coming of contract, that’s not for me to deal with now, I’ve given my opinion on all those.
"It would be wrong wouldn’t it, for me now to be doing it when I’m not going to be here and certainly in terms of anybody’s future not to be here, that’s not for me to deal with.”
Are those players more unsettled as a result of the change in management situation? "Luke’s just playing. He quite wanted to go out on loan in the window because he didn’t think he’d get any football. But I said, ‘You will, you’ll get some games’ and he’s better of playing here, he knows everybody, he doesn’t have to go and settle in.
"And he’s come on, he’s had a couple of games and he will get some more football before the end of the season.
"I guess it’s for the people who are going to decide now to watch and see whether they think he’s got value to the squad.
"I’d only say that at the moment currently we’ve Tom Adeyemi, Emyr Huws, Dozzer, Bish all injured. We’ve got Tristan Nydam coming through, we’ve got Flynn Downes coming through, all who want to come back and play.
"We’ve had more midfield players this year than you can shake a stick at and yet they’ve all been injured, so we’ve needed more.
"It’s up to somebody else to decide who’s going to come, who is going to stay. That’s not my job that one now.”
Quizzed on McGoldrick’s situation, he added: "I’m not quite sure. I think he’s been one of the big players and any time a transfer window’s come along there’s always been conjecture, ‘he might leave, he might not’.
"So I haven’t spoken to him really on that subject. And, of course, I won’t be speaking to him now on it. Unless I tap him up for somewhere else, of course!”
Pressed further on currently-injured Bishop’s situation, he added: "You’ll have to speak to someone else, I’m afraid.”