Winger Tommy Oar’s agent says Town’s style of play didn’t suit the Australian international, who left Portman Road after his contract was terminated at his request last Friday.

The 24-year-old joined the Blues on a free transfer in the summer having left Dutch side FC Utrecht, but made only four Town starts - just one in the league - and five sub appearances, scoring his only goal in the FA Cup tie against Portsmouth at Portman Road, before deciding to move on.

"When Tommy came they had a certain way of playing, but they lost a couple of games and the coach changed their style,” his agent Michael Jansen told beIN Sports Australia.

“With Tommy being a technical type of player, a more European style, he didn’t suit the play very well. Tommy just didn’t think it was working out for him."

Jansen says Oar is in no hurry to find a new club - as a free agent he can move outside the transfer window - with Australian reports suggesting a move to China is on the cards, while A-League teams, including his former side the Brisbane Roar, are also interested.

“He is relaxed about his future and has all the time in the world to sort things out,” he added.

“I cannot mention any clubs at this point but he is transfer free and a lot of interest is coming in which is normal with somebody of his status.

"We are taking it step by step. He only terminated his contract a few days ago. He’s top fit, played a week or so ago and is training by himself right now.

"The European window closes in a few days and when it does a lot of clubs will still be looking for players and much can change.

"There is a bigger chance he will go to Asia or the Middle East than back to Europe or Australia."

Jansen ruled out a move to another English club: "Ipswich treated him well and of course out of respect England is certainly a closed book for Tommy.

“[Mick] McCarthy was happy with him, the way he trained and prepared himself. He did a decent job but these things take time.

“But, if as a player, you see the way of playing [and] training aren’t working out it’s better to talk with the club and solve the problem and the club approached and dealt with things in a very decent way.”

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essexboy added 14:41 - Jan 29 Europeblue,I agree with some of your points,but to get to the promised land you need to invest a little,you only need to look at the clubs above us.I don't think ME will put his hand in his pocket in this transfer window,do you.What we have is ok,but unless we bring in a couple of decent players we will just be stuck on the fringes.
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legoman added 14:49 - Jan 29 Oars agent is a gormless idiot.
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Europablue added 15:01 - Jan 29 essexboy, I take your point but I don't think we can match the teams around us in spending, so it isn't such a clear investment of spending X equals 80M premier league revenue. I think MM has the funds available for a couple of 1M signings, but I don't think ME is witholding the funds. His approach before seemed to be here is your budget go out and spend it, now it seems to be come to me when you find a player you want and make your case for the transfer fee. I personally like the way the club is run off the pitch. I think we all want a bit more entertainment on the pitch, which could well depend on getting that marque signing.

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essexboy added 15:14 - Jan 29 Europablue,I'm sure if there was money available we would have seen some signings by now and not just freebies.My personal opinion is,having been let down twice before he won't spend big again,but having said that if he can give MM another contract he should be able to trust him,don't you think.?
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essextractorboy93 added 15:21 - Jan 29 Some of the posters here come up with so much garbage is unreal. They try and twist a story in anyway possible to slag off the club in any way possible. Don't know why some people do that but its the typical modern football fan it seems who wants instant success. Oar would have suited our style if he had persevered a bit more. Mick has always liked to play with wingers wherever he has been. However if he genuinely was not settling into the area then its understandable. There is a difference between being homesick and not settling into a new area.

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Keaneish added 15:26 - Jan 29 Kikapu - MM is into his 4th season now so progress for that has to be higher than 6th to regard it as progression. The progression has been there to see year-on-year and the start of the season, with the quality we added to the squad, gave us all a sense of optimism. The fact is, that since the Reading game things have gone awry and we've sacrificed attacking football for defensive football at the cost of entertainment and a level of game/performance we expect. A couple of good results here and there in truth, but in the main, it's been dour. Correct me if I'm wrong but other than Fraser and McGoldrick, I can't think of any long term injuries to players who started the season fully fit, so I don't accept injuries as a reason for our poor quality. If you're saying we need investment, and I completely agree we do, then now is the time to invest to replenish the squad after the departures and reinvigorate a stagnant selection policy and a disjointed and increasingly disparate squad. With 3 days left of the window though it's looking unlikely the three or four players we need are coming in. This to me raises some serious questions about the management from McCarthy, Milne and Evans. Milne said there was money available so we have to believe this. Evans has backed MM and TC with a new contract so this reinforces Milne's statement for me. So it seems to me MM doesn't believe anyone is out there who can improve the squad, doesn't want to rock the balance of what he's got or doesn't want to spend it. So, best case, we're looking to loans which seems counter-intuitive if we're talking about club progression. Nothing seems to add-up, which normally indicates there something inherently wrong.

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blueherts added 15:50 - Jan 29 All the money gone to MM and TC ? Maybe?
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dirtydingusmagee added 16:50 - Jan 29 essextractorboy93, with respect ,its hardly instant success fans are wanting,we are the ''resident ''Championship side,been stuck in the groove too long now .Having said that even if promoted we are not a strong enough club to survive there as things stand .
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derby123 added 16:52 - Jan 29 Essextractorboy great comment couldn't agree more. We're told all the time from the players what a great team spirit there is at the club amongst manager and players. We also here from many other managers the respect they have for mick. This is always ignored by certain posters as clap trap. Here we have a single opinion from a player who's been at the club all of 3 months and people take his word as gospel, just because it paints the club in a bad light. Before people mention parr as another. Has he not moved back to his homeland as he has a young family? Totally understandable. Quite staggering really how people twist stories just to have another pop at the club. Let's just hope if we win Tuesday we'll still get the same amount of posters. But I doubt it.

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neillrumsey added 17:11 - Jan 29 I applaud OAR for his honesty it must be so frustrating to see all the academy teams getting the ball down and playing football . First team play a different let say more direct style. For me AMN FRASER and SEARS would all be far more effective if the ball was on the deck and not lumped from the keeper left to right for MURPHY. Why not build from the back or are the full backs not comfortable on the ball. We have some good players in the squad who thrive when we pass and move.

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Len_Brennan added 17:12 - Jan 29 Essextractorboy93: Who has been trying to twist comments just so as to slag off the club? If you bear in mind that the title of the story is "Town's style didn't suit Oar", what have these posters been saying that differs from what Phil has identified as the most significant element of the quotes from Oar's agent? Also who has been slagging off the club? Some posters have questioned the Owner's willingness to release funds in order to bring some decent players in, others have pointed out their disagreement with the style of football and the personnel chosen to start matches by the manager, but I don't see people slagging of the club or wanting to for that matter. As for "Oar would have suited our style if he had persevered a bit more" - clearly he sought a meeting with the manager to discuss that very situation and found no comfort in the response he received, resulting in his request to have his contract terminated. derby123: I think you need to read the stories on Jonny Parr's reason's for leaving a bit more closely. Also we have no reason not to take the words of Tommy Oar or his agent as gospel. Why would we automatically assume that they are a pair of liars, apart from it suiting your viewpoint of course?

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yorksblue added 17:13 - Jan 29 It doesn't suit the fans either, but we're not bottling out
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Keaneish added 17:17 - Jan 29 Derby123 - I think the criticism to the three players leaving in a short space of time is just. Look at each individual case: - Oar, signed as back-up / to compete with Fraser but when Fraser gets injured, MM switches his formation to 451 / 433. Maybe Oar wasn't deemed fit enough but if he was fit, then this seems to suggest he'd be 3rd choice for that slot. - Parr, we all know this story. 2nd choice at best behind Chambers / Knudsen. If you can't get in to your natural position ahead of a centre back then you have to be questioning your role at the club. Pretty sure i haven't read anywhere that he wanted to leave for family reasons. - Alabi, and this is the weirdest one for me. Youth player signed in the summer and loaned out. Fair enough, but when back from loan and we have 2 games against Pompey, he can't even make the bench when there's a full youth team there ahead of you. All of these examples would raise some serious questions for me as a footballer. I don't believe everything MM says (transfer windows are testament to this) but if there is a great team spirit, it's clearly amongst those who make the impenetrable starting 11 each week.

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essextractorboy93 added 17:28 - Jan 29 I just mean that some people are taking a negative view to every single aspect of the club. Of course people aren't going to agree with every single decision the club or the manager takes but just think some have a tendency to have a knee jerk reaction to every decision and try and twist it in a way to create something out of nothing. We have progressed every season since Mick came in. He took over when we were close to going down to League 1. He has spent almost nothing on transfer fees compared to the ridiculous amounts other teams are paying. He has previously taken 2 teams up from this league and managed at international level, widely regarded as one of the best at this level.

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Bluetone added 17:49 - Jan 29 @derby123 Quote "Essextractorboy great comment couldn't agree more. We're told all the time from the players what a great team spirit there is at the club amongst manager and players. We also here from many other managers the respect they have for mick" Just up the road from here there is a retirement home and they get exactly the same comments about their residents and the Home's manager. The other thing they have in common is the fact that their useful working life is in the past.

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Hegansheroes added 17:51 - Jan 29 I don't find it strange that 2 technical players have left recently, any self respecting "footballer" would certainly have to think long & hard about joining ITFC under the present archaic regime.
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derby123 added 17:51 - Jan 29 My point is Len-Brennan is this is just one player spoken out who's been at the club under a year. If things were that bad would the likes of murphy, Sears etc all of signed long extensions to there contracts. We're also told on a regular occasions from more than one player how good team spirit is. So the majority seem happy. I struggle to see how this is twisted an argument to suit my viewpoint. Unless there all liars of course. On the subject of parr I do believe it was reported that he had a child on way and the fact he wanted to go back home. Keannish regarding your point concerning alabi I believe he was unable to play due to being cup tied having played for Grimsby in round 2. A loan spell which didn't work out. Sadly if he can't crack in the conference. I struggle to see how it's a major loss.

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jonbull88 added 18:00 - Jan 29 People moaning for the sake of moaning again!! What a surprise!! We are top 8 in the championship, the way people moan you'd think we were bottom of league 2. People say how we should play more like Portsmouth, remind me where are they.....oh yes league 2, done them well in general hasn't it? We have scored more per game under mick than we did under Jewell and keane, conceded less per game, and generally play better imo. If we go up and stayed up we'd be a bottom 10 side like west brom, fans would no doubt start moaning again, saying we need to progress again. People need to understand in a league like the championship to just stay up the top needs progress, it doesn't take many seasons of no progress to go backwards, exactly what happened post magilton.

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Hegansheroes added 18:00 - Jan 29 Re cranky old tractor, agree that the style is bad but hoping MM will revert to attractive football is like a leopard changing his spots, the man is stuck in the past as his Wolves & Sunderland teams proved
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oldegold added 18:03 - Jan 29 If this story is true then I can relate to it as our brand of horrendous kick 'n' rush football will only consolidate our stay in the Championship.We will never be protagonists and I think our club should have waited till season's end before reviewing our manager's situation. I'm battling to keep my 13 year old son an Ipswich supporter as even at that age he considers the quality of football to be sterile and boring and so unimaginative. Juventus are looming on the horizon and I'm trying in vain to keep him on our side. With this hoofball it's not easy as even he recognises it get's you nowhere.

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Len_Brennan added 18:10 - Jan 29 essextractorboy93 : i agree with everything you say in your second paragraph and have been a supporter of Mick since he came to the club. I also thought he had done some good business in the summer to progress the team further and was sure that a right back was coming in, possibly on loan from a Prem team, every after the season started. But it didn't happen & Bishop's injury was far more long-term than we feared, leaving us short at RB and attacking midfield. I felt that it was a failing on his part not to address it, but I was still generally confident that the lessons of last season had been learned - but they haven't been. I don't really think that there are people being deliberately negative for the sake of it though. Maybe there are a couple of messers, but the majority of posts that you suggest are negative are certainly not knee-jerk. They relate to ongoing issues and most of those posters have been consistent in their position of wanting to highlight something that perplexes them about the fortunes of the club they love. I don't mean to be overly argumentative here for the sake of it either as you clearly support & care about the club and want everyone to get behind it. That is absolutely the right thing to do when the team emerges onto the pitch, but on here we have to have the chance to give our opinion, even when we don't agree with certain managerial decisions & strategies. That's the nature of this type of form. My opinion is no more valid that yours or anyone else's, but we debate the issues and shake cyber hands in disagreement from time to time,while both supporting & wanting the best for the club.

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Len_Brennan added 18:22 - Jan 29 derby123: You seem to be of the view that as long as there is a good team spirit among the senior players then everything is good and supporters have nothing to be concerned about. Remarkably you are highlighting this as the crux of the disappointment that many of us have from the Oar leaving story. You are completely missing the point. I have no doubt that there is a good team spirit among the regularly starting first XI, but Oar left because he was not given the chance to play his football, the very football that got him signed in the first place. We have not progressed this season and have reverted to a poor brand of football that it looked like we were moving away from. We have a number of players, good players, playing out of position and others who have not been allowed express themselves and all the times ours results & play have been deteriorating. jonbul88 : Isn't it great how you can use the words "moaning" and "moaners" and then not have to address any of the objective arguments made by those you disagree with?

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Jimmy86 added 18:35 - Jan 29 Jonbull88 that's absolute tosh. You mention Portsmouth and where they are, that's right league 2 you say, well a league 2 side who pretty much out played us over both FA cup games and deservedly went through. Maybe you should give them more credit?? We are 8th and a point off the play offs and have been in decent form, until the preston game, where we looked laboured and basically failed to turn up. The style of play, which has been much debated and discussed is not pleasing on the eye, or entertaining. It has been bearable, when it has brought a degree of success, but the better teams are able to retain posession, for periods of time

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purplealien added 18:45 - Jan 29 http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/tommy-oar-2927997.aspx
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derby123 added 18:58 - Jan 29 But Len-Brennan has oar really given it a chance? The way I see it it's a squad game where you need to be ready to step up if there's an injury etc and fight for your place don't just give up after 3 months. Granted it's been a crap 2 weeks no masking that. But nows the time to pull together for the next 18 games. We're came through rough patches before and I'm confident we can do so again. I'm willing to pass judgement on progress till end of season. If we don't achieve play-offs then I will admit were gone backwards, but not until then. Coyb.

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