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Wolves Eyeing Bialkowski Move
Wednesday, 10th May 2017 14:22

TWTD understands that Town’s Championship rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers are eyeing a summer move for keeper Bartosz Bialkowski.

The 29-year-old Pole, who was named the Blues’ Supporters Player of the Year for the second successive season last month, revealed in March that a number of clubs made enquiries regarding his availability during the January transfer window with the club making it clear he was going nowhere.

However, Town may well be willing to cash in on the former Southampton and Notts County man this summer as manager Mick McCarthy looks to shake up his squad.

Whether Wolves - or any other interested parties who emerge - would be willing to pay a fee the Blues would accept remains to be seen.

Bialkowski, who has a year left on his contract with Town having an option to keep him for a further season, said recently that he and his family are very happy at Ipswich but admitted he has ambitions to play in the Premier League.

Wolves appear set to be among the Championship’s bigger spenders this summer as they look to challenge for promotion in 2017/18 after a disappointing 15th-place finish this season.

Paul Lambert’s club have already been linked with 24-year-old Preston striker Jordan Hugill, a Town target in January when they had two bids, the second of £2 million, rebuffed.

Meanwhile, Barnsley have confirmed that Marley Watkins and Josh Scowen are leaving Oakwell this summer having turned down new contracts.

Midfielder or striker Watkins, 26, was the subject of a £1 million Town offer last summer with the Blues showing further interest in January.

Quizzed on whether he might make a renewed summer move for Watkins in March, Town boss Mick McCarthy kept his cards typically close to his chest: “I don’t know. We’ll see, he’s out of contract.”

We understand Scowen, a 24-year-old midfielder, is also a player that the Blues have kept tabs on this season.


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Ipswichbusiness added 17:53 - May 10
Fear not my friends!

Joe Hart will be available this summer.

(I have been taking some rather powerful drugs ...)
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armchaircritic59 added 17:54 - May 10
Here's a take on the current position of the club as i see it, from the eyes of someone who no longer attends (for some while), but did so for a few decades. For me it's simple, If ME is content to just put enough money in to keep the club afloat, and not make significant invesment in the playing side of things, and is also content to see some of our most promising youngsters be sold without hardly a sniff of the first team, then i' go even further than "dirtydingusmagee" above and say what is actually the point of ITFC these days! If the playing side of the club is seriously underfunded, the better youngsters are allowed to go elsewhere, and what good players we do have are also sold, where on earth do we go from there? Serious times at Portman Road i fear, unless one or two of the above policies are reversed!
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JCBLUE added 17:55 - May 10
If this happens they may as well pack up and go home! It would positively prove a lack of any real ambition!!
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blueboy1981 added 17:56 - May 10
......... why do people keep questioning our Club's ambition ? - you should ALL know by now, that we have NONE.

Get real and smell the Coffee - as it blatantly is.
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blueboy1981 added 18:00 - May 10
....... 'never before have so many been mugged by so few' - and it will continue under the current regime.
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Westy added 18:31 - May 10
Bart is worth 10-15 points a season. Can't see the benefit of moving to another Championship club. Surely he is Premiership class
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Seasider added 18:48 - May 10
The Vultures are circling over this once great club which Evans and McCarthy have reduced to a provincial club punching above their weight in the Championship now!

Evans hasn't the guts to appear before the supporters at AGM or anywhere involved with ITFC as far as I can make out,although occasionally it is mentioned that he attends a match.

I would say he is a devious character who has managed to upset several sports bodies over the years,and the point of him owning a football club is not clear to me.

Some say it is to make a loss to write off against some of his other companies.However as Mickszzztactics points out HMRC are tightening the rules on this,although not sure of details.

It certainly isn't to build a team who have Premiership ambitions,and surely he will not want them to drop into League One,even though his actions make one wonder,selling our best player each season.

His refusal to sack the Dino will certainly mean less income from ticket sales,which in turn reduces all other income streams;but he doesn't seem bothered about this either,as why increase season ticket prices for 60-65 retrospectively,if he was bothered.

If he keeps McCarthy,which now seems likely,sells Bart;but doesn't invest the proceeds as JAS suspects;then it will confirm to me that both the owner and his manager don't care what happens to ITFC.

A very sad state for this club which is now at its lowest point for nearly 60 years.
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MickMillsTash added 19:02 - May 10
Will go and could be good if we invest the money but history tells us that this is unlikely.

History tells us that we will not be able to get a Transfer Deadline day move for Dwight Gayle over the line so will compromise by signing the Long Melford youth team reserve team striker.
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brittaniaman added 19:20 - May 10
According to Dino all the squad are good and proper guys ?? BUT any of them who dare question his actions soon find themselves out of the squad and ready to be kicked out of the Back door, so do not argue with the mighty (I'm in charge Dino) including us Fans !!!!!
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Cloddyseedbed added 20:48 - May 10
If Bart goes to another Championship club that just about sums up Evans, I despise the man. Wherever Bart goes he won't be as busy as he was kept when he played in goal for us. How many MOM votes did he get? He was the goalkeeper for god sake!
Dreading next season without Bart.
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RegencyBlue added 21:05 - May 10
No idea where Bart will be playing next season but it wont be here unfortunately!

Evans has to make up £1 million on lost season ticket sales!
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DebenBlue added 21:10 - May 10
Cloddyseedbed - I was dreading next season with Bart, let alone without him !!
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MadDog added 21:21 - May 10
If they offer enough we'll sell him. Mick already talked up Gerken as the number 1! Sad times!
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barrystedmunds added 22:05 - May 10
F&@k me the season technically hasn't even finished and I'm already depressed for next! Barts off folks, we just have to face it!
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braveblue added 22:14 - May 10
He will go. Its the ME. MMcC way. It's why I have given up like thousands of other after decades.
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TimmyH added 23:04 - May 10
Is this a Joke?...
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runningout added 00:09 - May 11
Wolves have a lot more ambitions than our sorry club right now. If the fee is half decent anyone can go.. Bart may have had his time with us. Gerken may go too if it's a sensible and worthwhile shake up
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Penguinblue added 06:57 - May 11
It's all been said but I must too.

Don't want Bart to go but wish him well. He deserves premiership.

He would have good reason to leave because all all know the idiot McCarthy could drop him any time for his favorite Gerken.

McCarthy OUT
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Razor added 10:07 - May 11
Without Bart we would have been relegated-----no arguments.

Evans has a £1m hole to fill through lack of season ticket sales, wonder how he will do it!?
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VulpineBlue added 10:34 - May 11
Early days yet, but all the early indications are of yet another 'summer rebuild' that consists of the use of sledge hammers and crowbars and not the careful judicious use of bricks and mortar. Bart has struck me as being more than a brick on which we should build, he has struck me as a foundation stone. If he goes, we sell (as with Cresswell, Mings and Murph) one of our foundation blocks.
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goat_man added 10:45 - May 11
Mick won't be sad to see the back of Bart unfortunately and will sell him. He's been furious with the fans since we voted him Player of the season last year and made MM look like a mug for playing Gerks for half the season. He's been desperate to get Gerken back in goal for ages now, even though he played 5 times this season and we failed to win any of them including Lincoln twice, Stevenage and Rotherham.
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brendenward35 added 12:00 - May 11
I think we can all remember start of last season, players left not to be replaced and we were lucky to still be in this league. I can see loads of players leaving I get the impression a lot don't want to play for MM obviously lost the changing room at some point. Be interesting to see who does come in as we are obviously going to need squad players and already shown the door to a few players but they will be replacing before the season starts. I can see loan players again next season to fil in where we failed to secure player from transfers. Sorry state of affairs at ITFC and getting worse season by season. MM needs to either change his way or Evan to kick him up the backside and sack him.
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JimmyP45 added 12:49 - May 11
Easily the best keeper in the Championship and my personal player of the season. Would have gone down if not for Bart. Surely on current form, very few Championship clubs could afford him. Wolves is not a move forwards.

Please let's tie him down to a long term contract if he is happy living in Ipswich.
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dukey44 added 13:30 - May 11
In the real world money talks. So he can kiss his badge and say he loves our club but if he's offered more than we paying him why would he stay? Cause I know what I'd do!!! Every player is loyal when he's being paid every week until more money mentioned!!
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gosblue added 13:31 - May 11
Slap a £5m price tag on him plus a clause in his contract saying he could leave for a club in a higher division either here or abroad. He is simply too good for us and deserves a chance at a higher level. No one begrudged Murphy his chance but the management of it was atrocious. If Bart were to go to Wolves it would be a disgrace.
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