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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righty added 09:34 - Apr 28 essex57 we are already going there with the present regime just look at the football we are paying a fortune to watch
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carlo88 added 09:40 - Apr 28 Echoes of Aston Villa here, an initially enthusiastic owner gets less and less interested, previously successful managers struggle to succeed at the club, finally bizarre managerial appointments happen as the owner gives up. In which case their Martin O'Neill could be our Mick McCarthy. If our dear owner has lost interest scratching around the play offs will seem like a pipe dream fairly soon.

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kingy4978 added 09:48 - Apr 28 I would like Mick to be given Some decent money to spend in the summer and then if he fails it would have to be goodbye. People moan about the football and mick has tried to bring wide players into the club and they haven't succceded ( is this because they were frees and nobody else wanted them or because to get quality 9/10 you have to pay a decent fee? ) when he was at Wolves he had two wide men and that took people on and got the fans excited but he hasn't been able to replicate it here.

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bohslegend added 10:21 - Apr 28 Dissboy, the case you're making for anyone who wanted us to lose for some kind of greater good (as you would see it), is still wrong in my opinion. We all should want the team to win every game, or otherwise its a personality issue you have with the manager - I mean, if MM did go on to win every game you'd be happy with him, right? The other side of it is that I think the fella was being sarcastic about what might happen if the MM critics get their way.

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grumpyoldman added 10:39 - Apr 28 Some have said MM only plays hoofball because of the players at his disposal, BS! Possible team with players at present no including those who have been long term injured and without Dozzell as he is likely a bit part player Bart Foley, Chambers Smith/Berra Knudsen Maitland Scuse Bru Feeney Sears Pitman/Murphy Team capable of passing and moving, no need for hoofball, probably would end up roughly where we are now but more entertaining. Do not believe all the bovine excrement spouted by some who worship at the altar of MM

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karls_dad added 11:11 - Apr 28 I think a new owner is more important than a manager at the moment!
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Carberry added 13:03 - Apr 28 I wonder why Poyet had to go abroad after Sunderland and didn't find a job here? And why was he sacked at Brighton? Wise up guys otherwise 'this great club', as we like to call it, will be further down the drain. And as for 'let's have a legend back', when did that ever work?
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Dissboyitfc added 13:59 - Apr 28 Carberry,,, i give you burley... nuff said! Bohslegend... There is a difference here, many people are giving up their season tickets untill mm goes. If we were winning games and playing some football i would be a different matter. the truth is we arent winning games we are playing the ugliest football ever seen at Portman rd by a town team and mcarthy has very little respect towards the feelings of the towns supporters, i say this with our pathetic non-attempts in the cups, most fans love a cup run, dont they? Add this fact, if we fail to score 3 goals against MK dons it will be the first time in ipswich town history that we have failed to score more than 2 goals at home.... EVER! This all adds up to the most woefull boring uninspiring expensive rubbish and something has to change. Just read a quote by sir Bobby, stating what football means to supporters, MM doesnt care about the supporters. MM and ipswich is not a good fit!

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Dissboyitfc added 14:08 - Apr 28 On another note, good luck to Portsmouth in the play-off final, having a go in the cup didnt ruin their play off hopes did it. and with no budget they play football. For everybody now defending MM you must surely see his case for staying in the job is weakening all the time! I want somebody new in, needs to be the right fit!
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rinkydinkpanther added 14:19 - Apr 28 McCarthy supporters, sympathisers and apologists are kidding themselves if they think a different manager wouldn't make a difference. Town have the players - but it's how they're being trained, instructed and deployed that's horrific. McCarthy is utterly the architect of his own downfall. If we happen to find a manager who cares about the club, coaches well and plays players in their best positions, that would be transformative, irrespective of who owns the club.

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Seasider added 15:01 - Apr 28 If MickMac was to go it would probably be of his own accord,most likely to a bigger club where he would be given money to spend; instead of the small change he has to make do with here at Ipswich. I knew when he was appointed what we were in for,and boy he has lived up to his dour football reputation with bells on. Were he to go however I have no faith in the owner picking a suitable replacement. All three managers he has appointed are similar in one respect,that of winning promotion from the Championship.Mr McCarthy has a better CV than either Keane or Jewell and this is reflected in the league positions since he arrived in 2012. However like many I do not like his attitude to the beautiful game or the Ipswich supporters who he sometimes seems to hold in contempt;so like many wouldn't be sorry if he went;but like others fear that his replacement could be no better or even worse! If the invisible man has either lost interest,or doesn't actually have sufficient money to invest any more substantial funds(Asset rich but cash poor),then he could sell some of his majority shareholding?

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bugledog123 added 16:03 - Apr 28 they'd bring a passion and an energy for sure. Bring it on i say
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kingy4978 added 16:14 - Apr 28 Grumpyoldman I see you've got foley in the team. The same foley that 99% were moaning about when mick signed him. Maitland has been a big disappointment as I like others were expecting good things from him with the pedigree he has. Feeney has only joined a while back and still not 100% sure about him. The one thing they all have in common is no fee was required which touches on my point that if he has funds made available mick would change A, the way we play B, get a better quality of player in

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essex57 added 16:27 - Apr 28 Righty i think your wrongy
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grumpyoldman added 16:48 - Apr 28 Kingy4978, what gives you the idea he would change the way we play, my point is the players are here to change the way we play now, yes my team is not perfect but could play in a different style, Maitland has been a disappointment, but if MM had given Parr more game time he probably would stil be here and could play there and Oar may have stayed and made the spot his own, who knows but following football is an opinion based hobby

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Carberry added 17:06 - Apr 28 Dissboyitfc - fair point, well made. However you get my drift don't you, it just doesn't work that because someone is seen as a legend then they will make a success of it. There are plenty who have tried and failed. I am making the point that these two just aren't right for us.
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Elto added 17:14 - Apr 28 grumpyoldman I don't know for sure but I think Parr had probably spoken to MM in the Summer about wanting to go home (Norway). For whatever reason nothing could be sorted until January which is why he only played a bit part until then. I think Parr would have gone whether he played or not. Pity, I thought he was a useful player and we miss his versatility.
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Dissboyitfc added 17:41 - Apr 28 How do you know that these 2 wouldnt be right? They would be more right than MM. And they would bring back the feel good factor, something i doubt MM will do anymore.
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blueboy1981 added 18:34 - Apr 28 Seasider ....... McCarthy could have money to spend elsewhere - yes - he may well sign flair players, as he has to some degree with us. But he will never change his style of play - when have we ever seen it in the past ? - thro' his career. Flair has, does, and will always be alien to him. Money, or no money - the man cannot, and will not change.
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blueboy1981 added 18:36 - Apr 28 ........ there's much more flair in our current squad, than any of us have been allowed to see this season. Think about it.
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blueboy1981 added 18:38 - Apr 28 Sorry bohslegend - mistake - didn't intend to disagree with you - for once.
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blueboy1981 added 18:43 - Apr 28 As much as I do not rate McCarthy - I would never want Ipswich Town to do anything other than win every game. Equally so, never satisfied with just a point - which McC is - reality is not that, but aim has to be high - otherwise why compete ??
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Carberry added 23:03 - Apr 28 Dissboyitfc - I'm pointing out that Poyet was suspended by Brighton and then his employment was terminated, which suggests that wasn't for footballing reasons. I'm also suggesting that his experience at Sunderland didn't encourage other English clubs to pursue his services. I'm not comparing him with MM, I'm saying that if we are looking for a new manager he wouldn't be on my list.

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BackTheBlues added 13:38 - Apr 29 Anyone who think Poyet and Taricco would be a good replacement is a moron! Didn't do any better than town when at Brighton. Awful at sunderland! Won't be given any money to spend! Please be realistic guys!
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blueboy1981 added 19:17 - Apr 29 ....... what a statement ? .... ' anyone who thinks Poyet and Tarricco would be a good replacement .... is a moron' REALLY ... ?? ...... is there any need for that ? ... although you may have that opinion.
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