Ipswich Town winger Kyle Edwards has joined League One club Oxford United on a season-long loan.

The skilful 25-year-old expressed his desire for more regular first team football after largely being used as an impact sub during the Blues' promotion-winning campaign.

Ipswich have included a January recall option in the deal for a player now in the final year of his contract at Portman Road.

Edwards is reunited with Greg Leigh at the Kassam Stadium, the left-back having made the same switch earlier this summer.

Oxford, managed by former Town coach Liam Manning, narrowly avoided relegation last season but currently top the early League One table after winning four of their opening five games.

Edwards is the fifth senior player Town have loaned out this summer following on from Gassan Ahadme (Cambridge), Corrie Ndaba (Kilmarnock), Idris El Mizouni (Leyton Orient) and Panutche Camara (Charlton).

In total, he becomes the 13th player to leave the club since the end of last season.

His exit frees up a space in Town's 25-man 'senior' squad ahead of the transfer window closing at 11pm. 

 

TOWN 'SENIOR' SQUAD (24)

(All loans have to be registered, regardless of age)

Walton, Hladky; Clarke, Donacien, Woolfenden, Burgess, Edmundson, Davis, Williams; Morsy, Luongo, Taylor, Evans, Ball; Burns, Jackson, Chaplin, Hutchinson, Aluko, Broadhead, Harness; Hirst, Scarlett, Ladapo.

Don't need to be registered due to age: Slicker, Baggott, Humphreys.