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Mick McCarthy: Selling Tyrone Mings to Bournemouth was good business

Selling Tyrone Mings to Bournemouth was great business for Championship side Ipswich, according to their manager Mick McCarthy.

Mings, 22, signed for Ipswich in 2013 for £10,000 but was sold to newly promoted Bournemouth last week for a reported fee of £8 million.

The left-back's move to the Premier League also saw two players from Bournemouth head to Portman Road: Brett Pitman signed a three-year deal and Ryan Fraser joined on a season-long loan.

"We've done great out of it in terms of the money that will help us rebuild," McCarthy told Sky Sports News HQ. "We took two really good players -- Brett Pitman and Ryan Fraser -- that will make us a stronger squad.

"Yes, we have lost a really good left-back but don't forget we signed Johnny Parr last year and only because Tyrone Mings ended up being the best left-back in the league meant he was kept out for most of the time.

"I think it's great for him (Mings). Having spent next to nothing on him and getting the money we did was a remarkable deal for a Championship left-back.

"If he does as well as Aaron Cresswell did -- he won every player of the year award going at West Ham last year -- it will be great for him as well. I think Bournemouth have got a great deal as well, by the way."

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