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Ando: Duo Should Consider Top Flight Offers
Monday, 1st Jun 2015 18:09

Out-of-contract Blues midfielder Paul Anderson says Town youngsters Tyrone Mings and Teddy Bishop should seriously consider any Premier League offers which come their way over the summer as they may not get the opportunity to join a top flight club again.

Mings, 22, and Bishop, 18, have been watched by Premier League clubs all season with Crystal Palace having made a £3.5 million offer for the Blues left-back last August.

"If they think moving is right, do it because you might never get in that position again,” Anderson told BBC Radio Suffolk.

"If your heart's with Ipswich, and if you think you'll progress better with Ipswich, then do that."

The 26-year-old joined Liverpool from Hull City in 2005 when aged only 17 but moved on without having broken into the first team at Anfield and says he’d make such a move again if he was in the same position.

"Fans might hate me for it, but if I was in that position at a young age again, I would sign for a bigger team in the Premier League and try to get loaned back to Ipswich.

"Nothing changes other than you've signed a nicer deal and in a year's time you might get the opportunity to play at a big Premier League team.”

The decision to move wouldn’t just be up to the players with manager Mick McCarthy and owner Marcus Evans having said that they're determined to keep the squad together and with Mings having put pen to paper on a contract until the end of June 2017 last September and Bishop recently extending his contract until the summer of 2018 with Town having an option for a further season.

Anderson is amongst the players McCarthy is yet to offer new terms but who he isn’t ruling out keeping on at Portman Road, Town having failed to take up an option for an additional year on the winger’s existing deal.

In April, TWTD revealed that Fulham are keen on the ex-Bristol City and Nottingham Forest man, but Wigan are now understood to be the favourites for his signature, while Birmingham have also been linked.

Anderson says he’d like to stay with Town if possible: "I'd love to be here but I'm also in the position where I'm a free agent. There may be some clubs that can offer me a nicer deal, but it doesn't come down to that.

"I want to be happy and if Ipswich can offer me the best deal all round, not just talking about financial as I'm settled here, they would be my preference.”

Meanwhile, Coventry City have confirmed that Mark Venus and Jamie Clapham have joined their former Blues team-mate Tony Mowbray’s staff.

Venus has been appointed the Sky Blues’ technical director overseeing recruitment and the club’s “footballing structure”, while Clapham will be involved with coaching the first-team and U21s.


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rambohambo added 18:15 - Jun 1
Have to agree, if i was a pro footballer and got offered a chance to go to the premier league i would go, but if i was playing for a team i love , it would play with your mind
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BLUEBEAT added 18:18 - Jun 1
Nice burning bridges tactic by Anderson.
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iaintaylorx added 18:23 - Jun 1
look what happened to wickham.. he could have stayed at us, but went for the money and is just starting to be a first teamer, so lads, stay with us for another season, let the gaffer build a good promotion pushing side around you, and see what happens next year! sadly, money talks nowadays, so who knows?

would also like to see MM keep ando, as he looked promising in the play off games!
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sweas77 added 18:25 - Jun 1
Think Anderson should keep these comments to himself, not impressed.

If you take away his play off goal, did he really do much last season?

McCarthy knows we need more creativity and goals from midfield and Anderson does not give us this, so happy with the decision to not offer him a new deal
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afcfee added 18:25 - Jun 1
Shut up and go to leauge 1
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jazzy added 18:31 - Jun 1
He's a door knob and showed he's true colours! Also all them bicks creating that sign up ando page!! Muppets! I got caned for saying it then but now have been proved right! All about the money!
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alztar added 18:33 - Jun 1
the abuse in the above comments have brought me to tears laughing! What is wrong with some fans? Perfectly fair comments, its up to Mings + Bishop to see the bigger picture that they will advance more here, but money does talk
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itfcjoe added 18:34 - Jun 1
Think some people on here need to grow up - Ando is just giving an honest opinion on it, from the perspective of someone who has been there and done it.
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carlisleaway added 18:39 - Jun 1
Well Anderson you have showed your true colours today, if you think Mings and Bishop are going to get action playing for a Premier League club you are surely deluded.
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shouldistayorcounago added 18:46 - Jun 1
We'd all rather not hear this being said, but he makes a good point. Whilst for any of us it would be a simple decision to continue playing for Town, young players are thinking about the shortness of their careers, and the limited opportunities that they'll have to get to play top tier football.

Criticising Ando seems pretty strange to me; he was our highest assist maker this season, and although he made 37 appearances, 16 were as sub - surely by playing him more regularly, and from the start of games he will only get more. I hope we end up resigning him, but I don't doubt that he'll still be a somewhat peripheral figure.
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runaround added 18:50 - Jun 1
Not wise of Anderson to express these opinions to the media. He is of course entitled to his opinion as everyone is but, considering Mick was quite bullish about Mings & Bishop staying, stating those views in the media is hardly likely to get Anderson a contract & I expect him to now leave
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bluesince84 added 18:50 - Jun 1
Jesus way to stick it in as you leave
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rexron added 18:51 - Jun 1
Bye bye Anderson. Wont miss you!
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tim70 added 18:53 - Jun 1
if they do move to top teams will they play as much football what they r at ipswich town they re better off staying with us;
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ITFCFan added 18:54 - Jun 1
Sounds like someones bitter for ot getting offered a new contract! My opinion has just gone down a % in him. The last thing we need is our young lions being told life is better with a premiereship club by players who have tried and failed themselfs!! Cressy was a perfect example of a proper footballer and stuck with us and learntbhis trade, I was gutted to see him go but he deserved his move and hes done fantastic at the age of 24, Look at wickham, Wasted!!
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Wallingford_Boy added 19:00 - Jun 1
Yeah what a nightmare Wickham is having, only just 22, already played 80 Premier League games and recently signed a new, lucrative long term deal. Such a waste, he could still be on £5k a week at a Championship club if only he'd remained loyal.
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itfcbam added 19:01 - Jun 1
He also comments about them staying. However too many young players have their careers ruined by trying to move too soon rather than focusing on learning the game by playing week in week out. Good example from our club was Richard Wright. Look at Cresswell moved after a good 3 years with us and has stepped up to West Ham with no problems, in fact unanimously their player of the year.
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Bluebongo added 19:11 - Jun 1
Why listen to Paul Anderson he,s not that great a player anyway.can understand why he,s not been offered a contract, we can do better than him.
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damnitfc added 19:29 - Jun 1
Anderson is just bitter because he had potential once upon a time at liverpool and wasted it
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TomJamesLW added 19:36 - Jun 1
Well that's his Ipswich career over.
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ArnieM added 19:47 - Jun 1
Guess thats Ando's chances of another contract just gone up in flames. It may be "just his opinion", but I doubt very much Mick McCarthy will be happy with these comments about Town players under contract!
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Marshalls_Mullet added 20:32 - Jun 1
Wickham is a bad example, Reading youth product who ended up at us due to his dad's job.

Not an Ipswich lad like dyer for example.

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Nthsuffolkblue added 20:51 - Jun 1
I'm afraid the headline looks a little misleading when you read the full comments in the article. It seems he is advocating a deal at a big club if they can be loaned back to Town which makes far more sense than what he and Wickham did. I can see his reasoning but it is ill-advised to have said it in public when he (presumably) might still be interested in a deal here - unless, of course, he has a deal somewhere else lined up. It also shows a lack of confidence in his own and their abilities (they might not get the chance again).
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Mr_Evans added 20:54 - Jun 1
Anderson is perfectly correct in what he is saying - we all like to believe that players 'love' their club and have blue running through their veins, but sadly not - these are professionals; this is their job. Like all of us, we earn to live - therefore making as much £'s before retirement creeps in is paramount.

Personally, I feel Mings needs another year at Championship level to progress, there's certainly aspects of his game that he needs to iron out - but he does show great penitential with his raw talent.

Bishop however, well, he's a different story - if I were him I'd move ASAP to the Premierleague. A player with his talent and ball retention would thrive in an squad of talented players. Imagine the player he could be if he were training day in day out with players like Fabregas, Di Maria, Ozil, Yaya Toure etc.. Okay he's be stuck in playing u21 football for 2 or 3 years but he'd become. Much better player come the age of 20. Not only that, a player like Bishop will be kicked to bits in the league for us next season - similar to how Jonny Williams was treated. The cham'ship is a brutal league for a slender player like Bishop.
But hey, what do I know..
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marcusevans added 21:34 - Jun 1
What have other players futures got to do with him?

I guess we have now definitely seen the last of Mr Anderson.
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