Fuller Move Unlikely - Ipswich Town News
Joe Royle says it is now unlikely that Town will make a summer move for former loanee Ricardo Fuller. The Jamaican scored two goals in an eventful three-game loan spell earlier this year.
Royle told the club site that Fuller's excellent form since leaving Portman Road - five goals in five games - has ended any chance of a permanent switch: "I would have dearly loved to have brought Ricardo here but he has gone and botched that by doing so well at Southampton.
"So that's unlikely to happen now and I don't think there is another striker available that could come in and do what Fuller might have been able to do here.
"But we have three senior strikers with a good goals records in Sam, Fozzie and Alan Lee, and we also have the promise of Danny Haynes and Billy Clarke.
"We also have Dean Bowditch, who we hope will take that leap next season with all that ability and promise he has."
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