Assistant goalkeeper coach David Martin has revealed he is leaving the club after a year.

Former MK Dons and West Ham keeper Martin joined the Blues last summer to work alongside head of goalkeeping Rene Gilmartin with his role outlined as “supporting goalkeeper development throughout the academy pathway”.

“Bittersweet season for me at Ipswich as an assistant goalkeeper coach, not achieving safety in the Premier League but working with good people was amazing,” the 39-year-old wrote on Twitter.

“I’ve taken massive steps in my development and I thank everyone at the club for their support. Best of luck for next season.”

Prior to joining Town, Martin left Southend United, where he had been a coach on non-contract terms while also acting as goalkeeping cover, at the end of 2023/24.

The Romford-born glovesman spent most of his career with the MK Dons with whom he made more than 300 appearances, having also had spells with plenty of other clubs, among them Liverpool, Accrington Stanley (loan), Leicester (loan), Tranmere (loan), Leeds (loan), Derby (loan), Millwall and West Ham.

Earlier this summer, first-team coach Lee Grant moved on to take over as manager at Huddersfield Town, while head of analysis Jamie Osman departed after a year to set up an analysis consultancy.

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ArnieM added 12:43 - Jun 28 Seems to be a fair few backroom staff leaving this club over recent months when things were by and large quite stable. Whats going on behind the scenes I wonder?
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BlueySwede added 13:29 - Jun 28 We have a huge backroom staff now, which will mean more people will come and go. Some positions will probably be tweaked etc. I prefer this to when Evans, Clegg and Milne was the "backroom staff", and that was it.
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Karlosfandangal added 13:45 - Jun 28 Town need a different type of backroom staff now with more Physical Attributes
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aas1010 added 13:50 - Jun 28 A lot jumping ship
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Cakeman added 13:59 - Jun 28 No need to worry about financial fair play rules then as our current wage bill must be very much lower than it was a couple of months ago.
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Nutkins_Return added 14:52 - Jun 28 Karlos it's very rare for someone to say something genuinely funny and intelligent on the news comments. Fair play haha!
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blueoutlook added 15:14 - Jun 28 A lot of people leaving this club. Not many coming in yet, actually none! Whether that be coaching or playing staff.
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blueboy1981 added 15:44 - Jun 28 Another leaves us ! - don’t try and tell me the amount of exits means - all is well at Portman Road !!
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tetchris added 16:03 - Jun 28 Based on some of the performances by the goalies last season and the somewhat questionable signing of Muric from Burnley (overpaid and calamitous), I suspect that Gilmartin may also leave the club. I think McK and MA have clearly had discussions regarding the back room staff and have decided that they need to improve the quality of these staff as well as playing staff. MA has already alluded to the fact the club is massively behind in terms analytics and player recruitment, that suggests a bit of an overhaul is required. We need to think and act like a PL club and in turn need players and backroom staff that can keep us in the PL and not be a yo yo club

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Cookieboy added 16:14 - Jun 28 Set piece coach must be next on the agenda considering the goals the Town conceded
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armchaircritic59 added 17:48 - Jun 28 Just a general clear out pre season people, it's not only the players that underperformed. I sense quite a few changes coming one way or another. It's not just new brooms that sweep clean.
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PortmanTerrorist added 18:34 - Jun 28 We need to relax when people leave as we develop coaches as well as players and they cannot all be boss....and under this management, every departure is an opportunity to recruit better! The times they have a changed!
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blues1 added 18:43 - Jun 28 Blueboy1981. Of course you have to put s negative slant on every single thing. I suppose all not well at ur place of work every time some1 leaves? It's what happens. Likelihood is, he has something else lined up for himself. A chance for him to be the main keeper coach somewhere perhaps. But no, for you, it has to be that theres something wrong at the club.
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town1957 added 21:15 - Jun 28 In any workplace people will always look for opportunities to improve their lot. It’s no different in football. But I often wonder why some folk seem to enjoy highlighting negative reasons rather than focusing on the positives. I am certain that with those positions now waiting to be filled the club will have every intention of improving the overall quality of the back room staff at every opportunity and will already have replacements in the wings.

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runningout added 22:09 - Jun 28 some putting 2 and 2 together and making 5. We were shoddy last year and change is a must
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