IPSWICH boss Roy Keane may sell star defender Gareth McAuley to raise funds for new signings after a bust-up. (Mirror)

IPSWICH boss Roy Keane may sell star defender Gareth McAuley to raise funds for new signings after a bust-up. (Mirror)

Town manager Keane wants to freshen up his squad after collecting just one point from four Championship games this term.

He axed Northern Ireland international centre-back McAuley, 29, for their defeat at West Brom and stripped him of the captaincy.

McAuley annoyed Keane with a blunt assessment of Town's shortcomings in midweek when called into the manager's office to discuss the team's poor start.

And the stopper, signed from Leicester in June 2008, may now be sold as Keane lays down the law at Portman Road.