Town have confirmed that midfielder Jon Nolan’s contract has been terminated by mutual consent.

Nolan’s deal was due to end in the summer but his terms have been settled now to allow him to join another club outside the transfer window, which closes at 11pm this evening.

The 29-year-old’s departure comes as little surprise as he hasn’t featured this season having suffered a series of injuries over the last year.

Nolan joined the Blues along with team-mate Toto Nsiala from Shrewsbury in the summer of 2018, following their former Shrews manager Paul Hurst to Portman Road.

In total, he made 59 starts and 11 sub appearances for the Blues, scoring 10 goals, most recently featuring in the 1-0 home defeat by Sunderland in January last year. Soon afterwards, he was relegated to training with the U23s by then-manager Paul Lambert.

The Liverpudlian picked up a knee injury in training on his successor Paul Cook’s first day at the club and suffered a calf problem in pre-season and then a further setback in the autumn.

Asked about Nolan’s fitness situation on Friday, manager Kieran McKenna said: “He’s probably still a little bit away from contending to start games. He’s back in the training group.

“When you’ve been out for a good amount of time, you can often get some other little issues and niggles on the side, that’s stalled him at times over recent periods, I believe.

“Thankfully, his major injury that he had has much improved, no big long-term issues there hopefully, so now it’s just about getting a rhythm in training, that’s obviously a challenge when you’ve had a longer injury and a long time out.

“At the moment, he’s just trying to get a consistent run and rhythm of training, build that resilience up to be able to be out there competing every day and he’s getting through that at the moment and getting closer and if he can keep doing that he can obviously start to contend for minutes, but at the moment he’s still a bit away from that.”

A number of other League One clubs are likely to have noted Nolan's availability.

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MaySixth added 12:18 - Jan 31 Shame it never worked out. Hope he stays free from injuries and he gets some games. Feels like a good player in there somewhere.
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Smithy added 12:19 - Jan 31 £2 million for Nsiala and Nolan effing hell!
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Doug_The_Jug added 12:36 - Jan 31 Good luck at Col U Jon
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NITFC added 13:20 - Jan 31 I recall watching Jon Nolan run the midfield in a very early game at Rotherham (even though it was a narrow defeat).. At that point I though we had a heck of a player. Real shame that it didn't work out and I hope he gets another club soon
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MickMillsTash added 13:24 - Jan 31 based on what I've seen of him - his next move will be sideways
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ShropshireBluenago09 added 13:59 - Jan 31 Shame he couldn't hit the heights that earned him the move. Was decent in patches and probably would have thrived with Morsy behind him. We may have missed a trick.
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ThaiBlue added 14:03 - Jan 31 Absolte waste of time,didnt fancy it didnt want to be at town,good riddance.
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BurleysGloryDays added 14:11 - Jan 31 Real shame and actually quite surprising as he's probably the most naturally gifted in McKenna's style of play. But we can't operate on what ifs and injuries anymore so it's sad, but probably right. We have to power forward confidently with fresh blood that'll drive us on to better days ahead.
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Cookiscooking added 15:43 - Jan 31 Dunno why people are downvoting Thaiblue for, he's 100% correct… met him in the barbers before and his attitude absolutely sucked to the core. Poor professional who seemed to just sign for the money and couldn't give a toss. 👍🏼
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superblues9 added 16:56 - Jan 31 Why do people down vote The people who talk the truth on here if the bloke saw him himself at the barbers and he had a poor attitude why downvote him for putting that on here ! Not a very good player so no loss !
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grow_our_own added 17:03 - Jan 31 Was in the side that got relegated and then failed to get promoted from L1. In other words, has been implicated in the worst period in the club's professional history. Coincidence or cause? Based on what I've seen, I'd go more for the latter. Decent engine got him in the right place at right time to score occassionally, but just not a very good footballer. Should have been axed years ago.

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Linkboy13 added 17:50 - Jan 31 Decent player when fit scorer of some quality goals but never seemed happy at Ipswich to me but definitely has contributed more than Harper and El Mizouni put together.
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istanblue added 21:13 - Jan 31 Jon Nolan sums up the banter era at ITFC: overpriced, overhyped, underdelivered, injury-prone and leaves on a free transfer. Under Gamechanger these types of instances will hopefully be a thing of the past.
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