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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casanovacrow added 18:44 - Apr 27 "The Sun" ..might as well have been in the Beano
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BanksterDebtSlave added 19:05 - Apr 27 Martin587, would you care to expand on your down vote through the medium of words (maybe not if it's just that you like the sun!)
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Dissboyitfc added 19:11 - Apr 27 Be careful what you wish for! Well i am a wishing, got my fingers crossed, toes crossed, legs crossed, arms crossed, eyes crossed and i have crossed The "T" in Taricco..
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stevieiriswattii added 19:20 - Apr 27 Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please......... please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, make it come true! Thanks :)
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martin587 added 19:41 - Apr 27 Bankster.... Firstly I like the.They are nearly always right,and secondly you have a very short memory,and no I won't elaborate.
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geminimustang added 19:51 - Apr 27 Looking forward to MM & TC going so i can get that relegation feeling back.Hope it goes to the last game of the season and not ending early like this one has.Before i get a load of arrow-downs,i'm joking with the moaning group who should be careful what they wish for.Mid-table ain't good but the bottom is a damn sight worse.
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NSL added 20:35 - Apr 27 What ever happened to the Taricco money?!
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HackneyBlue added 20:43 - Apr 27 wheres my season ticket renewal-oh yes its in the bin.
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Dissboyitfc added 20:43 - Apr 27 Gemini... what are you saying? are you saying if there a change of manager, you hope we are in a relegation scrap? Words Fail me... If change happens you would rather it go wrong, so you can say, " i told you so" PRICELESS!
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bohslegend added 20:51 - Apr 27 Dissboy in fairness there have been plenty of comments the reverse of that over the season from people who don't like MM. People hoping we would lose so he would be sacked etc. A Town fan never EVER wants Town to lose.
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Taricco_Fan added 20:59 - Apr 27 I approve. :-)
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TimmyH added 21:14 - Apr 27 Yes please...BUT it's only tabloid talk.
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Rimsy added 21:36 - Apr 27 Dream team. Get em' in quickly.
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manualthetisfanclub added 21:46 - Apr 27 What a load of s##te! Have they forgotten there is already a manager here? Can't stop paper talk , so disrespectful No matter how many haters want Micky out, he is still here!
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blueboy1981 added 22:01 - Apr 27 Sounds good to me - believing in it is something different. Bring it on.
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howdonblue added 22:08 - Apr 27 Mowbray and Venus anybody
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Dissboyitfc added 22:14 - Apr 27 Bohslegend... agree with most of your post, however if anybody has wanted ( i am not one of them )the town to lose its because they want better things for the team. Gemini on the other doesnt want things to improve if a new manager took over, just to prove his argument in favour of MM. That is not a town fan and that cannot be defended.
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muccletonjoe added 22:19 - Apr 27 If mm finds another job. If poyet wants it . If evans wants him. Just a tad alice in wonderland dont you think?
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jabberjackson added 22:54 - Apr 27 They do boast excellent defecatory accuracy from altitude into a paper cup... Apparently...
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GiveusaWave added 00:28 - Apr 28 Its from the sun so unreliable at present. Whoever comes in needs to have money to spend regardless or else we are in deep trouble. I'd love to see Poyet and Tarricco trying to turn some of our midfielders into dribblers and passers! Sadly I believe it will turn into a failed experiment as we have players in place who are there for one reason and that's to play hoofball. If they did come in we would need compensation money for MM and TC and ME would need to give the duo at least 10M to have any hope of competing at the top of this league. We need two creative midfielders (Williams and Fraser would do) and a recognised right back. We also need a striker who can regularly hit the back of the net at Championship level.

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yarmuffboi added 01:46 - Apr 28 What about Matt holland? Not seen his pink salmon shirt for a while.. surely he's done his badges by now. And with a decent assistant just imagine.. we could do much worse than to have magilton back.
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Blue_Armee added 08:13 - Apr 28 Mick in my opinion has taken us as far as he can on a limited budget but if Evans backed him financially then I say give him one more season.
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pedrail added 08:50 - Apr 28 I'd love to see Roberto Martinez at Portman Road if Everton let him go. Intelligent, attack-minded, loyal, interested in development youth players. Granted he hasn't done so well at Everton, but the expectation there is Champions League football. I think he would thrive much better in an environment with a shoe-string budget and without prima donna players.
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goat_man added 09:13 - Apr 28 Well the masses will get their wish of attempting to play passing football...at least for a while. I give it 2 months before we start playing 4-5-1 and lumping it forward to a tiny striker, once we realise we can neither afford nor attract the players who can play passing football consistently and well enough to be a threat at this level.
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essex57 added 09:28 - Apr 28 Well hope its not true if it is i fear we could be on the slippery slope to oblivion.
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