Blues boss Paul Jewell has revealed that Icelandic defender Ívar Ingimarsson's contract has been terminated by mutual consent. The 34-year-old was one of the centre-halves heavily criticised after Monday's 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest.

Jewell said: “We’ve terminated Ívar’s contract, we’ve come to an agreement with him and his agent, that was agreed early in the week.

“It just hasn’t worked out, for him or for us. He’s been a terrific professional, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen. I think Ívar accepts that and we accept that.

“I rang his agent and said ‘it’s not working out’. He’s been a terrific player, a terrific professional and is a proud man, so he doesn’t want to hang around if he’s not going to be involved."

The Blues manager says the summer free transfer from Reading, who made six starts and two sub appearances for Town, never really established himself at Portman Road: “From day one it’s been start-stop for him, so I thought it was better for him to cut ties.

"The owner’s come to an agreement with his agent about the rest of his contract.”

Aside from Ingimarsson’s exit, Jewell says there have been no new developments on transfers either in or out.

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wesleyITFC added 18:01 - Jan 7 Life goes on
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are_these_the_days added 18:03 - Jan 7 Why did we sign him? Wasn't PJ aware of his ability ( or lack of it)
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SheffieldBlue1 added 18:04 - Jan 7 He can go away and work at the great questions of life. Such as how the match day program listed him as 6 foot tall.
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Mark added 18:04 - Jan 7 Another player paid off. Ingimarsson has been dreadful recently, which is strange as he looked good in pre-season. Getting decent centre backs on free transfers is tough, there are not many Jason De Vos's around. I think we will have to spend some money to bring in two quality centre backs, and a right back too, and a goalkeeper...oh dear, we are in a mess.
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SchancheITFC added 18:04 - Jan 7 Poor old Ivar, yes he wasn't great for us but having been a Reading legend deserved a bit more dignity than this.
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Nunn_the_Wiser added 18:04 - Jan 7 Shocking management to sign a pensioner he met on holiday. Just go Jewell, please.
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Sindre94 added 18:05 - Jan 7 Best news of the day. YES! Get in!!!! Thanks for the tiny effort but it was far from good, thanks and goodbye
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blueoff added 18:06 - Jan 7 What does this say about Jewells judgement, 0 out of 10 imo
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jas0999 added 18:06 - Jan 7 This is 100% PJ's fault. Terrible signing by a terrible manager. Let's hope PJ will be fined by the club for gross incompetence to part pay Ingi off. 7 Janauary - PJ has known for months that the loanees will return to their parent clubs and that the defence is shambolic - so why no progress on new signings? Let's hope it's because ME is close to announcing Jewells departure. Abysmal manager. Shocking.

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bluearmy4life added 18:07 - Jan 7 Great signing PJ. About time you left by mutual consent. JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT JEWELL OUT
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jas0999 added 18:08 - Jan 7 oh and let's not forget PJ offered Healy a new contract in the Summer - before falling out with him and releasing him. How much has PJ cost us with these poor decisions? £100K?
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RegencyBlue added 18:09 - Jan 7 Signed for a year and paid off half way through. Great judgement PJ, great judgement!
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s6blue added 18:10 - Jan 7 sums your tenure jewell - a complete and utter joke
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s6blue added 18:10 - Jan 7 sums your tenure jewell - a complete and utter joke
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Sindre94 added 18:13 - Jan 7 PAUL JEWELL IN
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brittaniaman added 18:14 - Jan 7 JEWELL Himself should square up these mutual contracts, he then might learn a thing or two, and be more careful spending other peoples money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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village_blue added 18:14 - Jan 7 Good luck Ivar bet you are glad to be out of there.
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SilentMajority added 18:19 - Jan 7 This is because we are hugely over-burdened with defenders.
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wherescounago added 18:19 - Jan 7 Maybe some others might like to have their contracts terminated??? Mr Jewell do you fancy joining the queue, I am sure a man of your calibre would be found a place at the front.
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gifkins_itfc added 18:19 - Jan 7 omfg clegg ur stupid u should terminated by mutual consent paul jewell contracts not Ingimarsson
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PauloJulio added 18:22 - Jan 7 Wont be missed...but hope we have someone lined up to replace him! Hopefully he is the first of many departures this month!
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flyingdutchman added 18:24 - Jan 7 the first clown to leave the circus lets hope the ringmaster is next...
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forevertown added 18:29 - Jan 7 I dont understand why footballers contracts are different to the ones us normal people sign wen we start a job if i was as poor at my job as some of these players are at theres i would be sacked without pay!!!! clegg sort the contracts like ur payed to do MUPPET!
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bigfish added 18:34 - Jan 7 Oh well we do not need defenders (yeah right) hopefully this is a sign pj has a replacement coming in.
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RYITFC added 18:36 - Jan 7 This has to be a positive move though, I said after the Forest game i never wanted to see him in a Town shirt again. Was a very poor signing though, if your going to sign ageing players, at least make sure they were top draw players at there peak.
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