what a suprise yet another player linked to ipswich and yet again he doesnt want to sign and all you ipswich fans remember what roy keane said no one wants to come ere and we want to be a force to push for promotion next season i think burley mills cooper wark mason osman etc will all ave to come back and help

ipswich r a joke time to start looking at ryman league i think surely we r more attractive than lowestoft .....or r we

Dont know the background to this but once again Clegg and co look pretty stupid.

Allowing the club to be strung along by a player, any player, for four months or more is unacceptable!

I'm not a fan of Jewell or Clegg but don't blame either for this deal not happening. From what I've read Evans put a take it or leave it offer on the table and for this player I think that was the smart move. It looked like he hung out for Leeds as long as he could but bet a small fortune it doesn't sign a contract renewal further down the line.

as freddie mercury sang ....another one bites the dust

Good

Lets move on and get a proper centre half or two.

CLEGG OUT !
im not fussed about Ward - better players out there who won't fanny about holding clubs to ransom! i just think ITFC would be better with CLEGG OUT!
Sod Off back to the OLYMPICS and cock that up instead.

balls

FOUR YEAR CONTRACT!!! Palace you are mugs! Don't blame Ward for signing that at all....What if he doesn't work out, what if CP get relegated...they won't be able to afford to pay him off and he would not move if the money isn't right, even if they wanted to sell him.

This is a big gamble on their part and not at all a reflection on Ipswich. Even when we signed Creswell, he was only given a longer contract once he had settled in and proved his worth.

Pretty desperate when a craphole club like palace are a more attractive option than us.what has happened to our club.there must be some nasty stories goin round about the club from ex players.palace is a dump of a club.

These PL players are free agents. Who would we want?

Arsenal
Manuel Almunia
Lukasz Fabianski
Vito Mannone

Aston Villa
Brad Guzan
Andy Marshall
Habib Beye
Carlos Cuellar
Shane Lowry
Emile Heskey

Blackburn
Michel Salgado
David Dunn
Herold Goulon
Vince Grella
Josh Morris
Nick Blackman
Junior Hoilett

Bolton
Jussi Jääskeläinen
Ricardo Gardner
Paul Robinson
Gretar Steinsson
Sean Davis
Martin Petrov
Robbie Blake
Ivan Klasnic
Tope Obadeyi

Chelsea
Henrique Hilario
José Bosingwa
Florent Malouda
Didier Drogba
Salomon Kalou

Everton
Marcus Hahnemann
James McFadden

Fulham
Csaba Somogyi
Zdenek Grygera
Stephen Kelly
Danny Murphy
Andy Johnson

Manchester City
Stuart Taylor
Owen Hargreaves

Manchester United
Tomasz Kuszczak
Michael Owen

Newcastle
Steve Harper
Tamas Kadar
Danny Guthrie
Alan Smith
Peter Løvenkrands

Norwich
Declan Rudd
Adam Drury
Zak Whitbread
Aaron Wilbraham

QPR
Radek Cerny
Danny Gabbidon
Fitz Hall
Clint Hill
Bruno Perone
Danny Shittu
Lee Cook
Hogan Ephraim
Patrick Agyemang
Alessandro Pellicori
Angelo Balanta

Stoke
Carlo Nash
Jonathan Woodgate
Danny Collins
Salif Diao
Matthew Lund
Tom Soares
Michael Tonge
Rory Delap
Danny Pugh
Ricardo Fuller
Mamady Sidibe

Sunderland
Craig Gordon
Nyron Nosworthy
Jordan Cook
Ryan Noble

Swansea
Vangelis Moras
Ashley Richards
Ferrie Bodde
Thomas Butler
David Cotterill
Mark Gower

Tottenham
Carlo Cudicini
Heurelho Gomes

West Bromwich Albion
Luke Daniels
Marton Fülöp
Nicky Shorey
Joe Mattock
Paul Scharner
Somen Tchoyi
Jerome Thomas
Roman Bednar
Marc-Antoine Fortuné

Wigan
Mike Pollitt
Chris Kirkland
Maynor Figueroa
Mohamed Diamé
David Jones
Hendry Thomas
Hugo Rodallega

Wolverhampton
Jody Craddock

We have an average Manager (being kind to him)and a Chief Exec, who are so far off the mark it is unreal. Couldn't organise a contract for booze in a pub.

Get used to it Dozzells Bobblehat & Co - there will be much more of this to come - unless the terrible twins get their heads together and live in the real world of football as of today.

Glad my season ticket money - is still in MY bank.

BTW Ward joining Palace ahead of us isn't anything to do with palace being a better team/more chance of promotion than us.. He has joined them only because he is a Pompey boy and now he won't have to move away from family/friends and that Palace finally upped their contract offer for him.
He was keen on Leeds only because his best mate was there.
This is according to some Pompey fans i know.

So are we really surprised?

Just a little worrying that we seem unable to close any of these deals. However, I also have to question why we insist of chasing players who seem to have made it quite clear early on that they weren't that bothered about joining us. Look at the time we have wasted over the past few seasons trying to get David Nugent when he patently did not want to come here.

Come on Town, sort it out for goodness sakes!

Sindre94 - but they would all want more than £200 a week and a packet of crisps - so forget it.

h32, are you okay? You seem so angry :P

Get behind the team, the manager and the club. Wouldnt harm anyone

Sindre94 - with the exception of yourself obviously, if this continues there will be many more unhappy people come the start of the season. Not so clever mate for those who cough up and watch every home game i.e season ticket holders.
But of course, some will be happy with anything - as for being okay, I assure you I am perfectly OK. Maybe you should ask certain others.

In one way, not bothered that he isn't coming to us but in another, worried about who we will attract. With our CEO's ability a fat 34 year old who will play for £200 a week and a packet of crisps, oh wait.....that's me! Best get down Portman Road right now, bet they still wont be able to do a deal tho.......

Great, move on now. Not bothered, clearly was only going to come here if no-one else wanted him. That's not the sort of player we want here thanks.

buryblue77 - trying hard to make light of the situation just hoping things will change for the better - but SERIOUSLY this all amounts to a huge problem within, and at the Club.
If only I didn't care so much about it - and that is just what I must stop doing for the first time in my life.

Hope Palace go down with mummys boy next year!

Sick of hearing about the guy, is there no real news to report? There has been reports about this possible bench warmer all year, we never needed him and I can't believe so much effort has been made reporting on the fella, he would not have made our team into a promotion chasing side. Bored.

I wish people would give the CEO a break. The earlier article on this proposed transfer clearly indicated that the player was given a 'take it or leave it' offer several weeks ago by Marcus Evans who evidently has the final say on all such matters. This stance is for me eminently reasonable. What is not reasonable is to suggest that the fact that the player chose not to 'take it' is somehow Simon Clegg's fault.

...gotta love this time of year,surprise surprise our pre season games are against all the local yocals,and we are linked with every 30+ striker on the market,lol,looking at that list there are a lot of quality keepers goin on a free,surely we can attract 1....