During a training session, Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna addresses his players.

A “multi-million pound” upgrade of the practice facility is planned, and Ipswich Town has revealed they are in the process of buying further property at Playford Road.Infrastructure has received a lot of funding since the club’s new American owners took over in 2021. An outdated Portman Road’s interior and exterior have been refurbished, and a new £2.5 million playing field was constructed during the summer.

In order to provide a “elite performance environment” for the men’s, women’s, and academy squads, it has been revealed today that property on the Bent Lane side of the training complex would be crucial to those plans.

The training facility is our upcoming major undertaking, according to Ashton.

“Architects have been enlisted to collaborate with us on the designs. The first team’s practice facility has to be completely rebuilt, and Kieran (McKenna) needs a more professional setting in which to work, develop, and attract players.

Kieran McKenna, the manager of Ipswich Town, and Mark Ashton, the CEO.

“We have the fields now, but to bring us up to speed, we need to invest millions of pounds in the training facility.”

I’ll have input into what I think would be necessary and for what I would like, but it’s more about the future of the football club and the legacy we want to leave behind, possibly many years from now when I’m not here, said McKenna, who has worked at elite training ground setups with Manchester United and Tottenham.

“We need a training facility that is appropriately matched to that if we want to be a premier football club and play at the highest levels of the game.

However, there is still work to be done. “The owners have been excellent in supporting the improvements that I and the employees have sought to do inside the facility that we have here over the last 18 months.

The men’s team, the women’s team, and the academy age groups all share out of the same building, which was originally intended for the academy.Portakabins have served the club well, but a more modern, purpose-built first-team training facility would be useful for the club’s present and future.

After acquiring the property behind the Sir Alf Ramsey Stand in October 2021, Ipswich Town removed the Staples structure that had been there. The club is currently debating how to best utilise that in the long run.

Tom Ball, the chief finance officer, said: “With Staples, it just takes a little bit of patience.Dropping the building was crucial for us since it prevented a rates charge and enabled work to be done on the pitch during the summer. A great grounds complex, really.

The Staples location is next to the local soccer team and is only a two-minute stroll from the train station. We need to consider all of the greatest possible uses for that property, mostly for the football team since we have a prejudice against it, but also for the community as a whole and what would provide the highest profit for the town and the county.

Ball said, “It’s something that we’re working on and as soon as you say you’re working on it, I believe everyone thinks that something will happen quickly. The Cobbold Stand is now more than 50 years old.