Ipswich Town: Mark Ashton on potential for more signings

The Blues have so far added striker George Hirst (Leicester City, £1.5m), attacker Omari Hutchinson (Chelsea, season-long loan), midfielder Jack Taylor (Peterborough United, £1.5m) and keeper Cirean Slicker (Man City undisclosed).

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It's likely they're still hoping to strengthen in the centre-back department, with the Blues short of Championship experience in that spot.

And Ashton, speaking this afternoon from Austria on the club's newly-launched TownTV, said there's still more work to be done in this window, which closes at 11pm on September 1.

New signing George Hirst bagged his third goal of pre-season in this afternoon's 1-0 win over RB Leipzig (Image: Ross Halls)

"There’s still a month left of the window," he said. "I actually don’t think the transfer window’s really come alight in the EFL as of yet.

"I think people are still waiting to see what some of the relegated and parachute clubs do but for us, we’re just getting on with our business.

“I think there’ll be two or three more at least coming in, but they have to be the right ones. Kieran (McKenna) won’t just take anyone, we’re very selective.

"You’ve seen us spend a little bit of time getting George Hirst done, that was a challenging deal to get done, as we expected it to be.

"But you’ve seen George score here again today, I think he adds quality to the team.

"And what we’ve got to do is, whilst we add quality to the squad, we’ve got to really add quality now to the starting XI.

"More competition for places can only be a good thing, but there are irons in fires and I’m sure there will be more players coming in."

Kieran McKenna in Austria this afternoon (Image: Ross Halls)

He added: "Which positions? Right across the board, to be fair. Without giving too much away, right across the board.

"Kieran is very specific in his specification of what he wants. That means we recruit from quite a small pond, but we’re down the line on a few and I hope we get them across the line fairly shortly."