Murphy Black Cats Trial - Ipswich Town News
Town target Daryl Murphy spent this week on trial with Championship table-toppers Sunderland. The Blues are keen to sign the Waterford United striker in the summer, the Irish U21 international having impressed in two trials at Portman Road.
Black Cats' boss Mick McCarthy watched Murphy in action for Waterford at University College Dublin last week and took him back to Wearside to have a further look at him during the week.
Town manager Joe Royle says he will sign the 22-year-old in the summer if the club have the £100,000 to secure his capture.
Promotion to the Premiership would give Royle more than enough cash, while the sale of Darren Bent would also provide sufficient funds should the Blues fail to win promotion.
Bent told TWTD back in December that he will probably leave if Town don't make it back to the Premiership: "If Ipswich don't go up this season, which I'm hoping, touch wood, they will, then everyone has to move on at some stage, so maybe it would be time for me to go."
With Pablo Couñago leaving at the end of his contract in June, the Blues are likely to be in the market for a couple of strikers over the summer.
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