Hurst: We May Have to Be Patient on Signings - Ipswich Town News
Blues boss Paul Hurst, who officially took charge at Portman Road this morning, doesn’t expect to make any signings prior to the start of pre-season training.
The squad are due back at Playford Road on Friday for testing with pre-season preparations for 2018/19 getting under way in earnest next week.
"I think we’ll probably return with what we’ve got,” Hurst told iFollow Ipswich.
"With the step up I think we maybe have to be a little bit more patient in terms of bringing players in.
"There is also the World Cup and other England tournaments going on so straight away that impacts us.
"It means the situation might be a slow burner. Of course in an ideal world I’d have four or five lads in, I’d know what my squad is and I would know where we’re going but that’s very rarely the case in football.”
Hurst is believed to be keen to recruit defender Aristote Nsiala and midfielder Jon Nolan from his old club Shrewsbury, while he said at last week’s press conference that adding wingers to his squad is a priority.
Meanwhile, young Manchester United keeper Dean Henderson, who spent 2017/18 on loan with the Shrews and who might have been on Hurst’s list of potential targets should Bartosz Bialkowski move on over the summer, has joined Sheffield United on a season-loan loan.
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