Town boss Mick McCarthy has confirmed that he is looking to sign Chippenham Town defender Tyrone Mings, as reported by TWTD yesterday. The 19-year-old played for a Blues XI in a 2-1 friendly defeat to a Nike Academy side on Monday.

Town say a deal has been agreed with the Evostik Southern League club and once the paperwork is tied up the defender will be available for selection immediately with the transfer window not applying at that level. Mings is at Portman Road today and is expected to sign on the dotted line this afternoon.

McCarthy: “He played in the U21 game the other day and I’m looking to sign him.”

Mings has been playing alongside Russell Osman’s son Toby at Chippenham and the Blues boss says the Blues U18s coach was partly responsible for bringing him to the club: “Russell and Steve McCall.

“We invited him in to play and he did well on Monday. He’s a left-back or left-sided centre-back, he’s 6ft 3in tall.”

Bath-born Mings spent many years with Southampton’s academy before moving to Bristol Rovers and then into non-league football with Yate Town before joining Chippenham — where his father Adie had been manager and then director of football before recently joining Chelsea's scouting set-up — at the start of the season.

McCarthy added: “He’s come through an academy so that helps, he’s been brought up at a club. He’s not just somebody who has come through and we’ve suddenly found him. I was really pleased with him on Monday.”

The Town manager says he’s not a player he sees purely as someone for the development squad: “We’ll see how he does. I think [he has a chance of pushing on], just having seen him for an hour and 10 minutes in a game. I decided after five minutes.”

The team which faced the Nike Academy, in which new Town scout Dave Bowman works as a consultant, was made up the Town first team squad members who haven’t recently been in the team.

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JustSpivvyChops added 10:23 - Dec 13 Mings the merciless....................good tag for a centre half.
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ipswichtillidie added 10:31 - Dec 13 Sounds like Mick thinks the lad is ready for the first team squad already. A future left back for next season maybe. An area we need someone more solid i feel.
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Edmunds5 added 10:41 - Dec 13 This is just the kind of signings we should be trying to make, too often for me, particularly under Keane and Jewell, we have looked at Premier league players past there best and average Championship players who have cost is a good million or so. For ages I have been saying we need to have a look at the lower leagues because you can find some real gems if your clever about it, intrigued to see how the lad does on a bigger stage if he is to sign.

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MickMillsTash added 11:33 - Dec 13 Good News, low risk, low cost and should add ambition and hunger to the squad, McCarthy knows what he is doing.
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BotesdaleBlue added 12:07 - Dec 13 Edmunds5 - They are my thoughts to the letter.
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irishtim added 12:15 - Dec 13 MM seems convinced about this lad so he must be handy.
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homer_123 added 12:19 - Dec 13 Priceless.
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wiltshireblue added 12:19 - Dec 13 I'm now living in Chippenham and have heard quite a few good things about him, heres a local paper story not much info but a photo etc. Sounds like the Chippenham manager doesn't have a clue! http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/sport/10106130.CHIPPENHAM_TOWN__Mings_to_sign_
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JWM added 12:36 - Dec 13 Mings will be the start of a new dynasty here at Ipswich.... I'll get my coat!
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dirtydingusmagee added 12:38 - Dec 13 Good to see Big Mick dosnt suffer from tunnel vision,and is prepared to look at all levels for new players ,not just'' Prem has beens .'' Really pleased with what he is doing since he has been at Town . COYB .
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La_Paz added 12:43 - Dec 13 Mings can only get better? Coat, taken etc.
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Keaneish added 12:50 - Dec 13 Never ready though. Seen him play a few times and a good prospect but not ready this season for sure.
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ArnieMsBigToe added 12:58 - Dec 13 JWM: I liked it. Therefore I have given +1. I'd like to give you more but Phil TWD is very strict on those sort of things. Let's hope he is the start of our incoMings. Yeah, I know . . .
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ArnieMsBigToe added 13:06 - Dec 13 On a serious point, does anybody know, do we have to wait until the next transfer window opens in January? Personally, I would've thought that we have wait until then.
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howdonblue added 13:09 - Dec 13 Well you know what I say.. IN MICK WE TRUST
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homer_123 added 13:12 - Dec 13 @ArniesMsBigToe - Did you not read the article??? 'Town say a deal has been agreed with the Evostik Southern League club and once the paperwork is tied up the defender will be available for selection immediately with the transfer window not applying at that level.'
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JWM added 13:14 - Dec 13 Cheers Arnie! I bet Mings isn't Flash.. Okay enough already. Good to see that we are at last picking up some young talented players for the future.
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dav86 added 13:25 - Dec 13 Hopefully he's another Chris smalling, bought for peanuts by Fulham and then sold to man utd for millions?
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afrodids added 13:58 - Dec 13 on the subject of young lower league players. it would be interesting to know what people thing of Nahki wells who ran rings round Arsenal back 4 the other night. Might be worth a punt especially now Barnett has returned to posh. thoughts?
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chrisonatractor added 14:17 - Dec 13 The Mings story is the most read article in that local paper - nudging out a UFO spotting. Interesting that a non-league transfer takes priority over a possible alien invasion and end of the planet as we know it. Must have a great left foot.
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suffolkpuncher added 14:43 - Dec 13 Chippenham is a local town to me in Wiltshire - he has two left feet and a decent right foot!
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kerryblue added 14:44 - Dec 13 Mick really has got every area of this club running on max since his arrival,just the way it used to be.
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ArnieMsBigToe added 14:44 - Dec 13 JWM: You're welcome. Homer: I did read the article, but I must of missed that point. In that case, the bit that said "with the transfer window not applying at that level" is something that I am not aware of. I thought that the transfer window applied globally.
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ArnieMsBigToe added 14:50 - Dec 13 Afrodids: I would imagine that Bradford's Nahki Wells has attracted all the big boys. Watch out for his transfer to either Man U, Man C, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool. Whoever he goes to, he'll probably end up languishing in their reserves.
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scottrock added 14:57 - Dec 13 I live about 20 minutes from Chippenham and teach close by and his nephew is in my class at the school! In fact, he told me of the trial the day before TWTD!!!
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