Town have signed 20-year-old Manchester City winger Alex Henshall on loan until the end of the season. Left-sided Henshall had spent time on trial with the Blues squad and played in last week's reserves friendly against Southend with his contract with his parent side up at the end of the season.

Henshall told the club site: “Ipswich is a big club and at this stage of my career, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me.

“I’m looking forward to the experience and especially working under this gaffer, so I can’t wait to get started.

“I need regular football and the Championship is a great standard. I want to come in here, hopefully get some games under my belt and try and do well for the club.

“Ipswich are obviously pushing for promotion, so it’s a great time to come in. I really want to do well for Ipswich and then we will take things from there.”

Swindon-born Henshall, who will wear the Town number 23 shirt, was a youth player with his hometown club but moved to City when 16 in the summer of 2010 having been on the Robins’ bench twice.

A number of other Premier League clubs, including Liverpool, had also shown interest.

The 5ft 10 in tall England U16 and U17 international spent time on loan at Chesterfield making one start and six sub appearances last season and made another league start, in which he scored his first senior goal, and another appearance from the bench while on loan at Bristol Rovers earlier in this campaign.

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ITFCRealist added 00:05 - Mar 25 Agree Blueboy, Taylor is better then Williams. Mick just cant see that because he has a problem with Taylor being so skillful
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blueherts added 08:18 - Mar 25 Williams the Premiership International is not as good as Taylor !!- I am so glad we have experts on this Site - expert comedians -
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Bradley19ITFC added 08:55 - Mar 25 We need pace in this team!
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