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O'Neill: We Turned Down Bids Into the Millions - Ipswich Town News

General manager of football operations Lee O’Neill has revealed that the Blues turned down offers “into the millions” for players on deadline day. TWTD revealed last night that a Brighton and Hove Albion bid for Armando Dobra was rebuffed by Town.

In addition to Brighton’s move for Dobra - which we understand was an initial £350,000 - several of the Blues’ youngsters have attracted interest in recent months.

Flynn Downes is understood to be interesting Fulham and West Ham, while Sheffield United and QPR are among those who have been keeping tabs on Luke Woolfenden.

"We did receive offers from clubs for players,” O’Neill told iFollow Ipswich. "I’m not going to comment on individual players or the clubs involved other than to say there was Premier League interest.

"It would have been easy for Marcus to have sold some of our players but he is not going to be bullied into doing that by the big boys.

"There were offers, into the millions for some of our players but he turned them down because he felt they weren’t right for the club.

"The long term objective of the club and Marcus is to try and keep our best players, our best young players and continue to develop them.

"Some of the clubs at the top of our league have sold some of their best players and we have managed to hold on to ours.”

O’Neill also confirmed that Town have made moves to add to their squad: "We were at the table with some players. We wanted to bring in players that were fit and actively ready to go.

"They had to be at the level of what we have already or better. Some of the bigger clubs we were talking to want some guarantees before they let their players out or there are penalties put in place so there are a lot of factors.”

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