By Aston
November 5 2004

Ipswich Town midfielder Ian Westlake would like to spend his entire career at Portman Road if he could.

Westy Wants To Stay

Ipswich Town midfielder Ian Westlake would like to spend his entire career at Portman Road if he could.

Westlake who turns 21 on Thursday would like nothing more than a contract keeping him at Portman road a few more years.

Westlake: “For my birthday I would love to sort out my future here at Ipswich. I totally love it here and I have no reason to ever want to leave.

“My family are close, my girlfriend is here and it is going great for me.

“It is a brilliant club that is doing well and looking to go into the Premiership and that can happen, especially with the way we are playing at the moment.

“So I would like to be able to settle things so I can sort things out like a house.

“You don't normally get left with just a year of your contract so I'm sure it will be sorted out. I'm an Ipswich Town player and I don't want there to be any talk about me leaving or any of that rubbish.

“I want to play Premiership football with Ipswich. It is always a club that brings through young players and we have those now.

“We also have the older players who have been in the Premiership like Jim Magilton, Fabian Wilnis, Richard Naylor and Kevin Horlock. Then we have Jason De Vos, an international.

“They all teach us so much. It is brilliant being this young and having them teach us. It is absolute quality with people like Jim, who loves telling us things, and it makes it so much easier when you have people like that who prepare you.

“Bam Bam is another, even though he is so young he has a phenomenal amount of experience and with his pace and strength he is a hard man to play against.”

Source: EADT.

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