The January transfer window closed at 11pm with no final day moves in or out of Portman Road.

As expected, claims of a £2 million move for Gillingham’s Bradley Dack proved to be wide of the mark. Later reports suggested Bristol City were the club to have had an offer for the 22-year-old midfielder turned down by the Gills.

Elsewhere, the Blues, Leeds and Bristol City were all reported to be showing loan interest in Sunderland right-back Adam Matthews.

According to the Shields Gazette, the Black Cats may be willing to allow the 24-year-old former Cardiff and Celtic man to go out on loan when the emergency provision is available to Football League clubs from Monday.

However, a right-back would seem an unlikely target for the Blues with Kevin Foley recently having signed.

The Wales international has made only one start in the Capital One Cup and one Championship sub appearance for the Wearsiders, both in August, since signing from Celtic for £2 million in the summer.

Meanwhile, Jordan Rhodes finally completed his stop-start move from Blackburn to Middlesbrough for an initial fee reported to be £9 million, signing a four-and-a-half-year deal.

Town are set to receive a small sum as a result with the £8 million deal which saw the 25-year-old move to Ewood Park from Huddersfield in 2012 including a 20 per cent of profit sell-on clause.

The Blues also included a sell-on clause, understood to be 10 per cent of any profit, when Rhodes joined the Terriers in 2009 - for a fee which eventually rose to just over £1 million after top-ups and the sell-on - and if the figures quoted are correct should receive a further £20,000.

Ex-Town midfielder Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has joined the MK Dons on loan for the rest of the season from QPR.

Former Blues winger Lee Martin extended his loan from Millwall to League Two Northampton Town to the end of the campaign, having initially joined the Cobblers earlier in January.

Leicester’s Tom Lawrence completed a loan move to Cardiff City for the rest of the season, Town having been one of several Championship clubs linked over the weekend.

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rendoblue added 07:18 - Feb 2 How depressing but no surprise, if we don't make the playoffs now Evans and McCarthy you are solely responsible. How can 20,000 sit the each game and realise we aren't good enough and play the most woeful football yet you two can't take the blinkers off for 2 minutes and see we are now getting a reputation for ball in the air. Every other team around us is trying to do what they can to get out of this league and how can you be happy with a squad you think is good enough to go up yet even if it was to play a bottom 6 prem team we would get taken to the cleaners. Please win tonight though to take away the pain.lol.

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Lightningboy added 11:03 - Feb 2 Well if this season peters out we'll all know why.
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Taricco_Fan added 16:42 - Feb 2 How much did the club generate from the sales of Mings and Cresswell in the last couple of years? Approaching £12 million? Now I appreciate much of this cash has been used to service debts and make wages available for the supposed "strengthening" of the squad during the summer, but I would expect at least £1-2m to be made available to bring in a quality young player (such as Dack or Roofe), a talisman who and could be the pivotal player the team is built around for the next few years. Instead we get loan players, freebies and/or 30+ desperados no other club wants...or in this case, nobody at all. How depressingly predictable. How entirely lacking in ambition.

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