Town owner and chairman Marcus Evans says he is expecting an interesting summer as manager Roy Keane moves players in and out of the club. The reclusive businessman says this season has been frustrating but has been encouraged by the Blues’ form in the latter months of the season.

Evans wrote in the programme for today’s game: "We've been looking at ideas for next season and how Roy sees the club progressing and funds will be available.

"But we will only bring in the players Roy feels can add the necessary qualities he needs if they are at the right price.

"While Roy has identified four or five players he would like to bring to Portman Road, he's also aware that he has a big squad and he's looking to trim that down. It's about getting the balance right. It could be an interesting summer."

Evans admits that this season has been frustrating: "We could easily have picked up several more points than we have. The form over the last three or four months has been encouraging. We have lost only once at home since October [prior to today] and if there was a league table over the second half of the season, we would be towards the top end.

"Having spoken to Roy many times, I know how frustrated and disappointed he has been with the season - the number of draws, the lack of goals and the late goals we have conceded.

"He's working very hard to turns things around though, and is determined to achieve what he set out to when he took on the job here a year ago - to take this club into the Premier League.

"There have been a few times when I have left the game after the final whistle pretty fed up that we have not got what we deserved from a match. I guess that is football for you, but nothing has altered in my desire and determination to see this club back where it belongs - at the top of English football."

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Jewell_do added 17:38 - May 2 Full respect for plughing £20m into a club in the middle of nowhere, Mr Evans but please grow some balls and get rid of this clown. As long as a I have a whole in my ar se Keane will never be the man to take us up. £20m given to 2 clowns. Just how ripped off must Evans feel?
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edd16 added 17:50 - May 2 I agree with TWTD INDEED. The sooner we get rid of them the better. I also can't believe that Keane did not walk out at the end of the game today he is a disgrace!!!! i have also stopped going to the game because of the ridiculous prices and the crap football. £28.00 to watch that rubbish
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kentblue added 17:54 - May 2 Rather than bring more players in/out just get the manager out and bring in a manager who can bring respectability back to the club !
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naaridge1coly7 added 18:01 - May 2 mmmmm i suppose that includes the dismal 1-3 against peterboro,the 0-2 against Plymouth both relegated and maybe todays 0-3 hey Marcus.mmmmm the roses really are on the garden arent they FFS!!!!!!!!!
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jas0999 added 18:06 - May 2 The normal rubbish comments. REALITY: ME is at this stage backing RK. If you don't like it, or if it is causing you pain, perhaps you may wish to support another club. Idiotic comments on every thread about ' bring in a new manager' is totally pointless. Roy will be here next season. ME has made that clear. So, you can decide - support ITFC (the manager, the players, the owner) or don't. That's the bottom line I'm afraid. P.s. Edd16 - that said I can fully understand why you wouldn't pay £28.00 to watch this at the moment. However, my point is everyone has a choice. You can also back the club from afar, but I wish some wouldn't find reason to moan after every comment/post about the club! If that's how some feel, then it is time to support someone else.

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Jewell_do added 18:13 - May 2 jas. You deserve watching us play the most boring, passionless, one paced football ITFC has ever seen.
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MoscowBluesSon added 18:17 - May 2 Keano!
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Martus added 18:29 - May 2 ME is no idiot neither is RK he knows what it takes with his time Sunderland and will take time. Half the teams feel they deserve to be in the Prem, we are one of many. RK knows more abot football than the rest of in his little toe and your comments are nothing to him. At theend of the day he is the manager of my beloved football club and I will super him and the team, I don't like the style of the football however and would prefer a passing style like donaster or Swansea but like I said before Keane knows more about football and trust his judgement. That is all . . . . . . .

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Mark added 18:39 - May 2 Firstly, credit to Marcus Evans for investing so much money in the team and for not interfering in the way we see happen at so many other clubs. He lets the manager manage, and supports him with transfer funds and budget so we can ask no more. Today we got what we deserved - a heavy defeat. With lots of changes again and the lack of attacking options it was always going to be difficult. I don't agree we have been really unlucky, as our performances have been uninspiring most of the season. About £8M were spent on transfer fees this season and Leadbitter was the only player who appeared today out of that expenditure. He actually looked about as effective as Miller was last year, and not worth £3M. So, all that money wasted. Of the sales, Rhodes has scored 19 for Huddersfield and Haynes has scored 7 for Bristol City. More recently, I think it is a mistake to release D.Wright and I am unconvinced that B.Murphy is better than R.Wright. Keane asked us to judge him at the end of the season. Let's do so: we finished 15th in the table, ending with 2 points from the last 4 games, and the standard of football has been the worst we have seen for many many years.

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MoscowBluesSon added 18:58 - May 2 we actually finished 14th
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bluechick added 19:09 - May 2 lets get this straight. ITFC cost the ME group nothing via the tax write downs. Superb business buying £32M debt for £8M. If i had the money i'd have done the same. Publicity RK has generated for the ME group worth every penny. Get real peasants, ME is a business, it makes money end of. RK is a crap manager but so long as we don't get relegated it doesn't matter the publicity is priceless. ME is cleaning up at the Olympic corporate trough, learn to live with it, we are simply a pawn in his game.

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stinkiusminkius added 19:47 - May 2 Jas0999 - I also would like a new manager bought in, but unfortunately realise thats not going to happen now. However I cannot just change who I support I'm afraid as that's not his it works with football teams. However, having serious doubts about keane does not make me idiotic. In fact, on the contrary, I think if you really cared about the club then it's perfectly rational to be very concerned as to where keane is taking us, because at the moment there are more doubts about him, than reasons to blindly trust him. I can only cling onto that small crumb of hope that he is going to prove me wrong.

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ITFCed added 19:58 - May 2 As the club is in a good financial state surely the price of tickets can be dropped so more people get into the crowd. Surely a businessman like Evans knows you will get moe deman if you drop the price of tickets. I wonder how he got £510m. Did he inherit it from a divorce like Abramovich and Eccelstone
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ITFCed added 20:00 - May 2 instead of "moe deman" it should say more demand
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ChambersM added 20:32 - May 2 i dont like the comment: "We have lost only once at home since October [prior to today] and if there was a league table over the second half of the season, we would be towards the top end." Thing is there isn't one of these tables and you have to work the whole season and not just the last few months....hes making excuses for keane because he doesn't want to pay him off when he knows he has to sack him. Either that or he just doesn't have a clue about football and does actually think we're going in the right direction, whereas i know we're not becuse the performances have not got any better as the season has progressed.

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havinit69 added 20:34 - May 2 Hyperthetical question to all you Keane haters, if, just IF he does turn things around and get us promoted next season, will you be jumping on the promotion bandwagon ? - I think that you will be. So do us ALL a favour, back the manager, players and the club and you may, just MAY not look like total arses, IF it happens.
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SurreyITFC added 20:42 - May 2 havinit69 - Well Said! COYB - Keano Keano Keano
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MoscowBluesSon added 20:47 - May 2 here here havinit69
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ChambersM added 21:03 - May 2 good luck with that IF
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havinit69 added 21:09 - May 2 Well ChambersM, you strike me as the kind of guy that has more than enough potential to be one of those "arses"! No one is saying that based on what we have seen this season tha we should be preparing our open top bus, but its not that unthinkable that it might just happen. "IF" it does, rest assured, we can expect to see you at the head of that band wagon.
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dirtydingusmagee added 21:10 - May 2 IF he did ,YES, but he WONT so,yes it is hypothetical . What would you expect us to do, we want success and would be pleased whoever achieved it,but if we can see failure we have the right to complain .THATS LIFE ,THATS HOW EVERYTHING IS .
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osborne1nil added 21:14 - May 2 havinit69 - does that also mean that if next season if he is as effective as this season and manages to use the funds as well as this season and buying players that are good for loaning out and keeping the bench/reserves that you will be eatting humble pie and admitting that you were an ar*e too? Grow up and face the facts that Keane has had a cr*p season and had admitted himself on the radio that of being too embarrassed to walk out and applaud the fans for watching what he has masterminded all season. Most fans support the club it does not mean they have to love every player or Manager and are free to voice their opinions! Otherwise might as well close the TWTD site down as we all have to tow the same line.

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havinit69 added 21:18 - May 2 But complaining aint going to change anything is it ?! - We ALL knew that Keane had 2 years to get us in the prem. You knew that at the start of the season like everyone else so how's about accepting that your "complaining" aint going to change anything and produce some positive energy and support him ?! Who do you think we are ? - There are only 4 or 5 teams in this country that should demand instant results and sadly, the days when Ipswich Town were one of them are long gone ! You are quick to jump on whoever is in charge's back but "IF" he delivers next season, you'll be with ChambersM and we'll all be reminding you of your comments a season ago ! - Just a thought...

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ChambersM added 21:37 - May 2 Im not going to say i wont be happy 'IF' we did get promoted, but i still retract my comments that i've made about keane this year, because he has been atrocious, in every aspect...and in my opinion it will continue next year becuase I cant see anything changing...he seems to be taking the same route in pre-season, shipping out lots of good experienced players and paying huge amounts of money on ex sunderland/irish players, or both (who arent worth what they are bought for e.g leadbitter)

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ChambersM added 21:38 - May 2 i mean i wont retract my comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
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