Leicester City are reported to have made an increased bid for Town striker David McGoldrick. The transfer window closes at 11pm this evening with the Foxes said to have made the new offer on Sunday, a first bid of an initial £6.5 million having been turned down late last week.

After Saturday's game at Derby, manager Mick McCarthy revealed that Town owner Marcus Evans wasn't keen to do the deal, then reportedly worth up to £8 million, but said talks between the clubs would continue over the weekend. According to The Sun, which broke the news of the first offer, Leicester have now made a new bid.

If a deal is agreed before today’s deadline McCarthy says he’ll initially look to the loan market to replace last season’s 16-goal top scorer before targeting more permanent additions in January.

“We’ve signed Conor Sammon and we got Murph and Kevin Bru and we’ll just have to see what we’ve got,” McCarthy told Radio Suffolk.

“And if we have to get some loans, as I keep saying, Premier League clubs will be willing to loan players out once they’ve got their squads together. We might have to do that.

“If that’s the case and it does eventually happen, come January there’ll be funds to do something else and build, and sometimes you have to do that.”

He is confident that owner Evans will make funds available to him if the deal does get done: “Absolutely.”

After the Foxes’ 1-1 draw with Arsenal yesterday, manager Nigel Pearson wouldn’t discuss specific targets, as is his usual policy until there is positive news on a deal.

On his plans for deadline day, Pearson told Radio Leicester: “We know the players that we’re trying to get and if we can get them, fine. If we can’t, we can’t and we’ll move on.”

Regarding young Premier League strikers who may be on McCarthy’s loan wish list if McGoldrick does move on, the only player of that profile previously linked this summer is 17-year-old Newcastle frontman Adam Armstrong.

Former loanee Jonny Williams may be amongst McCarthy's potential targets, depending on whether he's required by new Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock and if any other clubs are in for him.

One more senior player the Town manager could renew his interest in, either now or when the loan ‘window’ opens on September 8th, is Stephen Hunt’s brother Noel, who is out of favour at Leeds. We understand that McCarthy considered a move for the 31-year-old earlier in the summer.

Meanwhile, Palace, who were linked with Tommy Smith last week, are understood to have been eyeing Blues left-back Tyrone Mings. However, the Eagles are believed to be close to completing a deal to sign Tottenham left-back Zeki Fryers.

Elsewhere, ex-Blue Owen Garvan, who was training with the Town squad earlier in the summer, has been linked with a move from Selhurst Park to Bolton Wanderers where his former Eagles boss Dougie Freedman is now in charge.

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barry1230 added 08:45 - Sep 1 Noel Hunt surely we are not interested in him! completely useless makes Salmon look like Shearer.
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TCisMYcatsNAME added 08:47 - Sep 1 Personally I think town fans are suddenly underestimating just how good David McGoldrick is. He is undoubtably our best player, most creative influence, best goalscorer and all his teammates know this and look to him when things aren't going well. How on earth we managed to pick him up as a free transfer I'll never know but now we've got him we have to do everything we can to hold onto him.

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Paulc added 08:50 - Sep 1 What worries me is that as some have said, we could re-invest half the £8m on 2/3 top championship players, well Mcgoldrick IS a top championship player and he cost £8m (reportedly), so we are kidding ourselves if we think we're gonna get some kind of buy 1 get 2 free deal!
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brian_a_mul added 08:52 - Sep 1 I suspect MM meant to say Bajner not Bru. 7-8 mil is good considering we got him for free and has 1 year left on contract. Its been a few years since we actually made any profits on players, I trust MM and ME to do the right thing for the club. 8 mil would go a very long way if reinvested in the club. Bishop could be the missing link to bring some goals out of midfield. Henshall will certainly bring more attacking threat if he can also nail down a first team place. Ando is improving and getting the assists in. Our defense is solid, we have an improving midfield and a genuine threat out wide. A new striker will be needed but 1-2 mil would go along way for us. Would prefer Dids to stay but a team is bigger than the individual. Overall Im quite optimistic for the future.

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LordMamu added 08:57 - Sep 1 Some on here are remarkably deluded - if we sell do you actually think we will get someone as good assuming the money was freed up to reinvest? Zero chance of going up and zero chance of any entertainment - welcome to Portman Road - headquarters of mediocre ambition.
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essexboy added 09:08 - Sep 1 WE need a 20 goal a season striker,we don't have anybody near that at present.So how can MM even suggest he is happy with what he already has.The only goals being scored at the moment are from a defender.Ok, if we get 8/10 Mil for the lad then you cannot refuse that kind of money,but if we are to get to the play-off's WE NEED A 20 Goal man.Also somebody in midfield with vision possibly like the lad we had from Palace.IE; JW.Of course,if we only get Loan players in from the Premier LGE all the money will go on wages then there will be nothing in the Pot in January to Buy.!! I rest my case.

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patthegimp added 09:11 - Sep 1 Multiple negative comments. Anyone listening to Derby 2nd half on Saturday. By the sound of it with Bishop, Bru and Henshall with Tabb central we played them off the park for a substantial time. With intelligent mid field Bru, Bishop attacking and Murphy holding up well we sounded like a football playing team- very little hoof ball. Anderson for set pieces and Murphy/Sammon on the end of same. Extremely worried when I heard first about McGoldrick but now back to my usual euphorically optimistic!!

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mroberts added 09:15 - Sep 1 Id Ipswich sell David they may as well kiss good bye to chance they have of making the play offs. Without him we have no goal scorers and shows me what a lack of ambition MM and Marcus Evans have
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PrrrromotionGiven added 09:17 - Sep 1 As long as the money is put back into strengthening the squad, we'd be mad not to take it if you ask me. Mick can't assemble a team that has a good chance of getting promoted today, but what he can do is improve and prepare for seasons to come, and with £8 million, you can sign a lot of quality players at this level who could have more impact than any one player alone could. The problems come from the fact that Mick won't have £8 million to play with, but we just have to hope he gets enough to sign some players good enough to make us regular playoff finishers (and perhaps winners) or automatic promotion contenders (or perhaps achievers).

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ian_marshall added 09:19 - Sep 1 Goldie will likely go, but bru and bishop in midfield very encouraging and a big positive, and maybe get someone in today, get to January being solid like we all know we can be then go in the market big and push on next year! It's a long season we were all on a downer after derby defeat and Saturdays news before the game but look at the big picture and seasons gone by after Christmas we could push on big time with the boost of new players from the goldie money. UTT

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76blue added 09:22 - Sep 1 If we don't invest the money we get from mcgoldrick we might as well as waited for his contract to run out or just give him to Rotherham lol
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ldnj added 09:32 - Sep 1 Evans seems to want to recoup as much money as possible having spent early on and not reaped the rewards of promotion. This might provide space on wages (ie. more than one loan payer ?) but can't see it being ploughed back in when he's trying to recoup his investment.
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76blue added 09:32 - Sep 1 Gotta say I just love didsey just hope ME can get wood in the deal so we don't need to panic buy on a mediocre for 4M
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76blue added 09:34 - Sep 1 On a mediocre striker for 4M
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brazil1982 added 09:35 - Sep 1 I'll add my thoughts: 1) £8m for McGoldrick would be terrific business. 2) Yes, some of that money should be off set against our debt, what business would operate otherwise?
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bluefeast added 09:36 - Sep 1 My money is on no outs and no ins. We are sooooo boring on all fronts. Look at forrest , squad totally sorted by 1st July. Look at us ,weaker than last season with zero ambition. So what if we break ffp rules and get a transfer embargo ,we sign no one anyway. Lets see some flair come in and a specialist right back ffs.
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rickw added 09:47 - Sep 1 8m is a very good price for him however we would need a striker who gives us something else from the "big man up front" Andrew Johnson is on a free so he'd fit into ME's budget!
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horse added 09:48 - Sep 1 sky sports news just said fee for Mcgoldric still long off leicesters valuation and now looking else where.
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jas1972 added 10:05 - Sep 1 In all the concern and worry, no-one at all has mentioned that Jack Marriott is only on loan for one month, not half a season like the others. that month runs out on 17th September, so he is currently absent for only one more game.
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BillBlue added 10:07 - Sep 1 All this excitement on here amazes me. Do you guys not realise we are supporting Ipswich Town where nothing ever goes the way you think/hope it will? My mind is going to Didsy. For his sake and only for him I hope the offer is accepted so what that young man has earned comes to fruition. Try putting yourselves in Didsy's place and think how let down in his career he will feel if the offer is rejected. With regard to our strikers now and in the near future, Mick did you not see what happened at Derby last Saturday in the second half when you gave a couple of the youngsters their opportunity? Well you have another equally good youngster currently on loan at Carlisle, bring him back and tell him he is our main striker this year then let the youngsters start playing football the way they can and with our established defence and with Mr Bialkowski in goal we will all stop moaning at you. (Full Stop)

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Tractamatt added 10:10 - Sep 1 If Mgoldrick has had his head turned by the offer he's better of going as long as its cash and Woods then use the cash for a season long loan for Williams sign Collison and we will have a team who will win more than they lose with a bit of strength in depth
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warktheline added 10:43 - Sep 1 If Macca goes then so be it, the most important thing for me, is the clarification on new players coming in, therefore ME WILL back Mick. Would not be surprised to see a new forward, by end of play today, at Portman Rd. Obviously if things go badly today, and we are left with no recognised goal scorer, it will impact on club up until January, but if 8 million is the figure, then surely The boy has to move on. Moving away from this subject, did anyone listen to Warnock crying out for LEFT footed defenders! That worries me!!!!

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gosblue added 10:49 - Sep 1 Hands up anyone who genuinely thinks Didz is worth £8m. It would be madness to turn that down. Moving forward, Premier League teams will only take stock of their squads after the international break. If everyone gets back uninjured there'll be plenty of good players looking for games elsewhere. So let's not panic just yet. If Tommy goes to Palace, Maybe part of the deal could be Jonniesta's wages or part thereof. Fingers crossed.

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JustSpivvyChops added 10:53 - Sep 1 Contrary to the many posts suggesting we should "bite their hands off", money achieved for transfers simply doesn't and won't find its way back to MM for additions, so please remove that possibility from your minds............please also try to remember that we spent years without a striker to score goals to get us out of the league and when we finally uncovered some capable of doing that (Rhodes, Wickham, McGoldrick) we couldn't wait to sell them before realising any benefit from them in an ITFC shirt, it's utter madness and utterly detrimental to any hopes of achieving higher than a mid table finish, we should bloody well be ADDING firepower, not selling what we've got amongst a hugely undersized squad bereft of any quality now with the sale of Cresswell and seemingly likely sale of McGoldrick. How are we ever going to achieve promotion if we sell anybody capable of helping us get there at the first sniff of an offer? We will be stuck in a perpetual catch 22, with the most likely outcome being relegation, rather than promotion. Our owner is a multi multi millionaire, he is under no pressure to sell our assets at all and if he truly had the ambition to achieve promotion with ITFC, he wouldn't be selling our best players, he would be strengthening the side. Had we paid £several million for Cresswell and McGoldrick, I could understand the desire to recoup some of that money and reinvest in other talents, but the pair of them cost us virtually nothing and so we have nothing to lose on them and as we know for a FACT, money does not get put back into a transfer kitty. This sale is a HUGE marker of ME's intentions with regard to ITFC, he is trying to recoup his losses where possible and clearly has no desire to invest further in the club. The sooner he buggers off, the better. ME please accept one of the many offers you claim you receive for the club and sod off, i'd rather have a far eastern businessman owner who turns up to games and chucks a shed load of cash at us, than an invisible numpty who has taken the club to the verge of ruin and uses FFP as an excuse not to invest in ITFC.

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simmonds1987 added 11:02 - Sep 1 Leicester Mercury reports today this deal is unlikely to go through Hooray!!!
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