NEW loan signing Paul Taylor is determined to convince Blackburn Rovers boss Gary Bowyer he is worth a permanent deal.

The attacker will remain at Ewood Park until the end of the season after effectively calling time on his Ipswich Town career.

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Taylor will not be eligible to play in Rovers’ FA Cup replay with Liverpool or in their final league game of the campaign against the Tractor Boys.

But the 27-year-old will have six other Championship matches in which to impress – starting with the trip to Roses rivals Leeds United on Saturday week.

Taylor will be a free agent in the summer after agreeing to terminate his Ipswich contract.

And he said: “I’m going to try my hardest to impress the gaffer and all the staff and hopefully get a contract in the summer.

“This will be the biggest club I’ve played for – the history, the facilities, everything about it.

“It’s the club I want to be with.”

Taylor has spent the best part of the last two months training with Rovers after being told he had no future at Portman Road by Tractor Boys boss Mick McCarthy.

He said: “I’ve been here seven or eight weeks and I know exactly how the gaffer wants to play in particular positions so I’m ready to go.”

And Bowyer said: “We were just having a look at him in training and he did well.

“He’s got fantastic ability on the ball, he can score and create goals so we are hoping that he comes and adds that to our attacking force.”

Taylor, who describes his best positions as in the ‘hole’ behind the strikers and out wide, was signed by then Ipswich boss Paul Jewell for £1.5m from Peterborough United in August 2012.

But soon after he suffered a toe injury that sidelined him for almost a year and he made just 25 appearances for the club, scoring once.

The Liverpudlian spent the first half of this season on loan with Rotherham United and started their 2-0 win over Rovers at the New York Stadium in September.

Taylor, whose last competitive appearance was on December 20, said: “Three games after signing for Ipswich I had an injury and I was out for 12 months.

“Then a new manager came in and different managers have different preferences and it just didn’t work out for me.

“I went back on loan to Peterborough and then to Rotherham to get my games.

“I’d have loved to have played a whole season with Ipswich. The fans were brilliant but things like this happen in football and you can’t do anything about it.”

Former Manchester City trainee Taylor started his senior career with non-league Vauxhall Motors before making a loan move to then League Two outfit Chester City.

But Chester opted not to sign him on a permanent basis after he was banned from football for six months after testing positive for cocaine in October 2008.

Taylor rebuilt his career in Belgium, eventually joining giants Anderlecht, before returning to England with Peterborough, for whom he scored 14 goals in 53 appearances before making the move to Ipswich.

The Tractor Boys, meanwhile, have extended Rovers striker Luke Varney’s loan until the end of the campaign.

Varney is out of contract in the summer.