Former Sunderland and Brighton boss Gus Poyet and his regular assistant, Blues legend Mauricio Taricco, are reportedly the men Town will look to recruit if current manager Mick McCarthy moves on in the summer.

According to The Sun, “there is a growing belief” that McCarthy will leave Portman Road during the close season and the club hope that Taricco’s connections with Town could help secure Poyet as his successor, while Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are also said to be interested in the Uruguayan.

Poyet and Taricco are currently free agents having left AEK in Greece having taken over in October.

The 48-year-old former Chelsea and Spurs midfielder made his intention not to sign a new contract clear ahead of the Greek Cup semi-final at the weekend and was subsequently relieved of his duties by annoyed owner Dimitris Melissanidis. While with AEK Poyet and Taricco won 18 of their 28 games in charge.

Taricco, 43, joined the Blues in 1994 and went on to make 169 starts and three sub appearances, scoring seven goals before joining Tottenham for a fee of £1.775 million in 1998.

While Town’s 2015/16 hasn’t matched their play-off finish of last season there currently seems little prospect of McCarthy moving on - other than if he is offered a more attractive post elsewhere with the Blues boss also having been among those linked with Villa - having signed a new contract stretching to 2018 with an option for a further two years only three months ago.

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TractorBoy666 added 13:13 - Apr 27 God I wish! Unfortunately I'll never believe a word the sun says about anything.
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Penguinblue added 13:14 - Apr 27 Bring it on. Please move on McCarthy. Say no to Hoofball McCarthy OUT
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Ipswich_Crazy added 13:17 - Apr 27 Nooo! Mick don't go! If Mick goes it will be Evans fault!
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floridaboy added 13:21 - Apr 27 Why not get rid of MM after the Derbyshire game and get Poyet and Tarrico in asap
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Mark added 13:21 - Apr 27 Would they be prepared to come here for a transfer budget that limits them to free transfers and loans? I don't see why Evans would fund a new manager's transfers when he didn't do the same for McCarthy.
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sotd78 added 13:22 - Apr 27 Happy for MM to stay. Not everyone agrees on here!
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midastouch added 13:24 - Apr 27 Poyet has been hit and miss. But perhaps he could blend a nice style of South American football alongside the necessary rough and tumble of the English game. We need a balance of both. You need some spark and invention along with the English graft. At the moment we're too heavily weighed down on the graft end of the seesaw! Personally my choice would be Martinez. Look how he got Swansea playing before moving on to Wigan. He'd get us playing attractive attacking football again. His job is on the line and so he might be available come next season. This is very unlikely outcome though. So back to GP and MT. Not 100% sure about GP but given the choice between GP and MM, I'll take a gamble on GP! Certainly like the thought of Taricco being back the club. We all remember his lovely chip / lob goal against Man Utd in the League Cup! :-) And have we forgotten about Alan Curbishley, he's been linked with every managerial job for about the last 100 years! Joking of course about Curbs, he's had his time, time to look to the future whoever that might be... Time for the rumour mill go into overdrive...

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BlueKush added 13:24 - Apr 27 IF (big) he's off then this is exactly who we should go for imo. They've a really decent record and Taricco back would be the perfect tonic after MM's gin. I was gutted Matt Holland wasn't MM's assistant manager as initially planned, it's a good connection for the fans to have a hero back - and Taricco will have earned it on merit. I hope there's truth in this as a contingency plan if Mick leaves. Definitely beats asking Alan Shearer on a hammock in Barbados after you've sacked the manager ala last time.

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TractorCam added 13:24 - Apr 27 "According to The Sun" That was enough for me, welcome aboard!
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paulcooperisgod added 13:25 - Apr 27 Yes please. Anyone with some sort of ambition is better better then dinosaur Mick.
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Paddy39 added 13:28 - Apr 27 Doesn't matter who we bring in, there's NO FECKIN MONEY.
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Mick_Mills_Tache added 13:33 - Apr 27 They'd get us playing attractive football for sure. Be great to have a club legend back again too. I wouldn't mind Paul Cook and his coaching staff either. Give him a 5 year plan to a) get us playing attractive attacking football and b) build a younger team. No good getting over the hill players like Douglas.
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essexboy added 13:35 - Apr 27 Well chaps,this is only paper talk,but as iv'e said before"there is no smoke without fire" regarding MM leaving in the summer.If he does lets just hope we can get a manager with a different ethos of attacking football instead of the way we play now.we will just have to wait and see.Whatever the outcome it will I'm sure be very interesting during the summer.Some of the players on our books must be getting a little nervous regarding there position at the club next season.!!(and I don't mean squad numbers.)

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iaintaylorx added 13:36 - Apr 27 That has made my day! Shame it is from the Sun and not the BBC or Sky Sports sadly. Go on Mick, do us ALL a favour and do one!
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iaintaylorx added 13:38 - Apr 27 Wouldn't mind Gary Monk if I'm honest, but think it might be a little bit of a step down from Swansea...
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midastouch added 13:39 - Apr 27 If we get somebody else in there is likely to be a clear out, we can but hope! I wonder how much we could raise if we sold ExSkuse and Douglas? Double figures anybody? :-) And how about Jay Tabb, and Toure? Or maybe Mick would like to take them with him! They could all chip in for the taxi fare together to help save them a few quid for their new adventure. Not that Mick needs much help there mind you, if he's good at one thing that is not spending any money! He probably does most of his shopping in Poundland using the Portman Road petty cash box!

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hoppy added 13:41 - Apr 27 Well, if it said it in the Sun... Has it been confirmed on Twitter anywhere, to give it further credibility?
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prebsa added 13:48 - Apr 27 Would really like to see this replacement, Poyet is a good manager and get the players playing some nice football and with Taricco aswell that would be lovely! But as everyone has said its The Sun...
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Vizslaraner added 13:48 - Apr 27 Truly the best news possible, but we won't be that lucky. Someone else will snap them up! Just the headline I wanted but then i woke up
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Blandford added 13:54 - Apr 27 Nice thought - unfortunately the only way MM is likely to leave is if he receives a better offer elsewhere. Can't see our recent results or style of football being any help to him when it comes to high profile managerial positions.
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Mr_Evans added 14:00 - Apr 27 I'm not sure if Villa would offer MM the job anyway. People blame Evans for no investment but Ian Milne has always stated that funds would be available to the manager if he needed it. I wonder if it is a case where MM simply does not want to spend. I feel MM has taken us as far a he can. The club is in desperate need of a refresh. GP and MT would be amazing, they both did very well and Brighton and brought in a very good standard of football, MT input would do wonders for Knudsen and another attacking RB to be signed - he excelled as an attacking fullback. They made consistent improvement throughout his 4 years there: 10th in L1 before winning it, and then 10th in the Champ before finishing 4th in his final season. Forget what happened at Sunderland - that job has always been a poison chalice.

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clint_eastwood added 14:01 - Apr 27 YES PLEASE!! We definitely need to change our style of football. Perhaps it's time for a non-British personnel to take in charge at Portman Road.
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DurhamTownFan added 14:08 - Apr 27 This is definitely the romantics choice, IF MM leaves in the near future (although I honestly don't think he will). However, I also like others think that Poyet would demand a fairly large transfer budget, and if you're going to give him that money why not just give it to MM and save the upheaval? Yes, our footballing style is poor, but there were hints that it would improve before we lost at reading and he bottled it.

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Gcon added 14:12 - Apr 27 The choice of next manager is somewhat irrelevant. Whether you hate Mick or not the really concerning thing is this groundswell of opinion that Mick will leave, and do so for the reason that the owner is losing interest in ITFC and will not provide any improved funding. Mick has recently alluded to this and his mate Holloway has come out and stated it. It doesn't matter who you bring in, if they are not going to be supported then they are on the same hiding to nothing that MM has been on. This club is only on a downward spiral without a supportive owner who is prepared to fund the club to a similar level as other championship clubs that want to contend for promotion. Even the Mick haters have to accept that this is the real issue here. It is unrealistic to expect anybody else to achieve more concrete success than he has. I am not talking about preferable styles of football etc I am just talking about real success as in points scored and promotion prospects.

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bohslegend added 14:23 - Apr 27 On the Money Gcon
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