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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Vancouver_Blue added 18:55 - Jun 2 Ando has gone right down in my estimation Hopefully his comments were "taken out of context"
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NITFC added 21:28 - Jun 2 Alex Henshall was in the same position as Bish a few years ago. A real star but he chased the glory at Man City, didn't get to play football matches and look at him now What a waste
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essex57 added 22:02 - Jun 2 Lets get real who will want to put a bid in for mings hes been a carthorse since christmas and it was hi inability to pass the ball 10 yards to a blue shirt that let norwich score and lead to us playing with 10 men and with it our playoff chances evaporated. As for Bishop i would think it unlikely any club would take a chance after the gambling questions arose. So stop worrying and enjoy the summer break.

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