Racing Club de Strasbourg, recently in talks to take Ulrich Le Pen back to France, are reported to have turned their attentions away from the misfit winger.

Le Pen joined Town from Lorient for £1.8 million last November but has made just two sub appearances and looks certain to leave over the summer.

Strasbourg, promoted to the French First Division this year, are said to be turning their attentions to Liverpool's Bernard Diomède.

Le Pen recently described his spell at Town in hardly glowing terms: "My experience with Ipswich has been a negative one."

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