Towards the business end of the season, Ipswich Town is still dominating the Championship.
Kieran McKenna’s team has rebounded from a difficult stretch of only one victory in nine games between mid-December and February, eventually finding their early-season rhythm at this crucial juncture in the season.
With their 2-0 win against Plymouth on Saturday, the Tractor Boys not only secured their first five-game winning streak in the second division in twenty-one years, but they also took second place with three points following Leeds United’s 1-1 draw with Huddersfield Town.
With 11 games left in the regular season, Ipswich has also narrowed the deficit to three points with Leicester City, suggesting that winning the championship may be their next goal.
Having said that, the Suffolk team may be able to add one of these five free agents on a summer free transfer, or they may choose to add them to the roster for the final stretch.The first player on this list is O’Hare, the poster boy for Coventry City, who is still negotiating a deal at the CBS Arena.
With nine goals and 21 assists in 21 games—his first coming in late October—O’Hare, 25, has been a major factor in the Sky Blues’ mid-season comeback from 20th place to having their sights set on a play-off finish.
Naturally, Doug King and Mark Robins are exerting every effort to lock down the playmaker in a new contract, but the former has also acknowledged that O’Hare is considering his alternatives because his current contract has three months left on it.
Like Coventry, it appears that Ipswich’s best chance of signing O’Hare would come from promotion; according to recent reports, three La Liga teams and Scottish Premiership giants Celtic and Rangers have been mentioned as possible destinations for O’Hare.
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