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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edd16 added 21:44 - May 2 TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU CHAMBERSM WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET ANYWHERE IF KEANE IS OUR MANAGER NEXT SEASON
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ChambersM added 22:04 - May 2 havinit69 clearly isn't 'havinit' anymore
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osborne1nil added 22:14 - May 2 Havinit69 - yes and when he wastes more of ME money like this year you will wake up and smell the coffee and realise that it is the worst since Duncan (although you probably don't go back that far). Then ChambersM and I will be happy to remind you! I'll also tell you who I think we are - we are a team that has been not far off the playoffs for the last few season and needed tweaking with a decent striker or two and a good central defender and left back. We now need a right back, still need two decent strikers and have gone backwards as we were never in site of the top six all year but did hold the division up and stay in the relegation zone for most of it. We also now manage to play unattractive hoof ball football from a club that it historically known for its attractive play. ChambersM perhaps it was his bed time, so couldn't be havinit anymore?

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ChambersM added 22:39 - May 2 i reckon so....anyway im telling you if anyone else says keane is the man i wont be havinit
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bedsitfc added 22:43 - May 2 good to see ME backing our manager in public coyb...... 2010/11 will be much better
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Lightningboy added 22:43 - May 2 Th only way this summer will be interesting is if you give Keano the clown the boot & put us all out of our misery. I hope you've got more bloody sense than money.
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bennyblue added 02:15 - May 3 why is it they start talking about bits of the season and next year ? as most sane people know the season is based on all the games played not 5 in the middle and 3 near the end that these fools would have you believe are proof that everything is hunkydory and roy is truly the greatest man to have walked the earth since homosapiens first appeared on a riverbank in a place to become known as suffolk this year he has been useless and next year he could be to anything else is just not speaking coherently its makebelieve mumbo jumbo there are only the facts 0-3 defeat at home to sheffield where they are only famous for making cutlery after more than a year in charge shows us with the finishing position and money spent that roy is useless and should be removed to speculate on where roy will take us next year is pie in the sky waffle which is as meaningless as a politicians promise get over the sh-tetalk you keanites and except the club has gone backwards under roy

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SuperReuser added 02:24 - May 3 If we would have won today, i think there would a few less keane haters. Forget today and lets move on to next season. COYB!
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bennyblue added 03:44 - May 3 if if if we didnt win today in fact didnt win 33 times out of 45 games thats quite a large percentage of not winning games do you think its all down to bad luck ?
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austractor added 04:12 - May 3 Guys it could be worse, Phil Brown could be our manager :D
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jayessess added 08:33 - May 3 at a club like ours, you judge a manager in progress, rather than demanding instant success. It's difficult to see the progress this season. Now, that'd be forgiveable if we'd lost some of our best players in the Summer and were having to rebuild. But we didn't, we started with record levels of investment and only shipped out players who were supposedly surplus to requirements. Treading water would have been disappointing. The actual outcome was atrocious. I don't see any reason for optimism. I genuinely don't see what is going to happen between now and August to make this work any better. It's been over a year now, and the manager is still trying to get rid of first team players and talking about "getting the right personalities in" (can we get the right footballers in, roy, ffs?). That's more than enough time to expect to be looking at something to resembles an RK first team, and which despite the upturn in form, still doesn't exist. If we're supposed to keep the faith, I just don't see any basis for that faith.

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havinit69 added 09:51 - May 3 ChambersM and Osbourne... Unlike yourselves, I actually have a life outside of TWTD's website. I don't wait for Phil and his team to put a story on here so I can say the same things over and over again. Like i said earlier, you are boring and you probably believe that you have to post on here because people actually want to read your boring and negative thoughts... zzzzzzzzz I was around to see the Duncan days and the Lyall days and have sen the good and the bad of ITFC and FYI i was of the same opinion with Jim Magilton and then when he failed to deliver I was more than happy to "eat humble pie" and say that the time was right for a change. Its not about who is right and who is wrong, its about supporting the club and WHOEVER is in charge when the owner comes out and say that RK will be there next season. REAL supporters would accept this and get on with supporting us. You guys are sadly the kind of supporters that fall in to this "minority" and as i said earlier, are also the type that will be outside the town hall chanting RK's name should he deliver. Any way gents, that my point made, lets agree to disagree but if you cant see my point then i look forward to reading more of the same from you zzzzzzzzz !! ;)

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BJM added 09:59 - May 3 I am not a Keane "hater", but I don't like what he has done at our Club. He has signed some very poor players at considerable cost and after his bullish start to his ITFC career has not delivered good results or pleasing performances. I am like many fans: I want to be wrong about him, but I am can't see how he is going to turn it round next season. If he does, I'll be as pleased as anyone. My guess is that he will be gone well before Christmas, but, again, I hope I am wrong and he delivers the goods and gets us promoted. Criticising RK is any fan's right and doesn't make me disloyal. I have renewed my season ticket and will be at Portman Road for 2010/11, whatever happens.

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naaridge1coly7 added 10:16 - May 3 And you are still pro-keaners-absolutely unreal and jas you really are thick and obviously just like putting up with complete rubbish. KEANE HAS POISONED OUR FOOTBALL CLUB AND YOU ARE ALL TOO BLIND TO SEE IT. You must love watching pathetic football in Portman Morgue,nuff said.
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sheepdags added 11:02 - May 3 Sounds like the dreaded vote of confidence from ME. RK's done wrong to the two Wrights and is about to follow them out of the door. Very unlikely ME is about to throw more money at him.
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Tractorog added 11:25 - May 3 The Keane Out brigade may be right, but with 1 year left on Roy's contract - calls for him to leave now are just about as stupid as it is possible to be. Mr Evans will see how this season goes ... he will give Mr Keane his money up to a point and see if there is more to his managerial skills than lower mid table. Sacking him now would be throwing money away and everything Marcus Evans has been about has been about patience and giving his managers time and money. If Mr Keane does not improve he will be out of a job this time next year, or if he does we will at least be contenders for the Premiership. Either way it will have nothing to do with those that vent their spleen on this forum.

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Jewell_do added 11:35 - May 3 I find it absolutely amazing that you have the arrogance to call anyone criticising a bloke that spent £8m on a squad that finished 9th to finish 15th. Unfortunately our club is full of people like you, happy to sit there and lap up the rent-a-quote. ITFC fans are sick and tired of being fed the same sh it and seeing £20m worth of transfers go to the wall. It is passion to stand up and demand more from a club we love. I suggest you grow some balls and stop with the 'anyone says anything nasty bout ITFC then don't go' line.

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titanicclown added 11:49 - May 3 I put it to you all that this team would have finished higher in the league with any half decent manager - Curbs, Burley, Mogga, Coppel, Johnson, Magilton(?). Oh, it wouldn't have cost a penny either!! R Wright D Wright Macaulay Bruce Peters Haynes Norris Garvan Clarke Rhodes Stead Subs: Walters, Trotter, Smith, Quinn, Counago, A Keeper, Wickham, Bowditch, Pim, Miller. RK is simply the worst manager in our history and anyone who thinks otherwise must be a closet Man Utd fan. £2 million on Martin, £1.2 on Edwards, £1.7 on Priskin is just criminal. We've no method of scoring goals, in fact we've no method of play at all - IT'S A BLOODY SHAMBLES!!!!!!!! Giving RK more money makes no sense. Spend it on sending him on a football tactics course that surely would't cost the millions he will no doubt waste in the summer. P.S Cant wait for Lee Carsley, Kevin Phillips and Andy O'brien next season. I'd be after Maynard (should have signed him when we had the chance) Ambrose and Tudgay.

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bennyblue added 13:20 - May 3 what will the town look like when theyve finally turned us into a bleak miserable place like sunderland dole queues and job applications for black and decker greasy chips and flat lager sack the lot of em i say i want town to be like barca sunshine bumpy buildings and ladies and gents good wine music and beaches man beaches lots of em bugger sunderland if roy loves the place so much why doesnt he go back i want the beaches man and the ladies and big bumpy buildings yes please say no to sunderland in suffolk suffolk is on the med man not the bloody north sea

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ChambersM added 14:01 - May 3 trust me havinit ...i wont be...i might be chanting some of the players names...but not mr keane
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TedTurnip added 19:37 - May 3 RK was brought in to bring change and this he has most certainly done. Did anyone think that the squad needed a minor tweak to take into the Prem? Of course not. The squad needed to undergo a massive overhaul and it should not surprise anyone that with this comes a season of frustration. Look at Fulham as an example of what is required to turn fortune on it's head. Things are looking up for this club and I am left in little doubt that next season will herald some genuine excitement for us fans. Remember this also, I bet my left leg that there will be another 'bad signing' on the way, along with more players who 'should not be allowed to leave'. This is part of building a squad, a very real part. We don't see what goes on day to day on the training ground the manager does and I guarantee he knows the game better than anyone who writes on here. Trust him and the good times will return. Not in flurry of unrelenting success but as a longer process with frustration and dissapointment part of the package. If you don't like it then I am surprised you like the game of football at all. No club in history has achieved anything without some pain on the way! COYB !

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legoman added 20:12 - May 3 Here here turnip.
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bennyblue added 03:34 - May 4 sounds a bit simplistic and full of cliches to me lots of no pain no gain glory quotes do ya reckon turnip could be working for a poor american advertising agency ?
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TedTurnip added 19:22 - May 4 now come on bennyblue don't be like that. you know I am right
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kentblue added 06:22 - May 5 Havinit- blinkered optimist ! Keane has shown enough this season to show that he has NOT got the skills either personal or management to bring about success. He has misused the talents that we do/did have with the club ending up 9 points from relegation and close on 50 points from winning the champioship ! He promotes toughness( at any cost - incl fouling ! )and nothing else. There are a whole multitude of other attributes needed to win- he does not possess them . We all want the club to be successful - he is NOT the man to take us there.

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