Town’s offer to Sunderland is understood to be for both Grant Leadbitter, as emerged earlier this afternoon, and right-sided midfielder or full-back Carlos Edwards. It is understood that the joint bid has been accepted.

Edwards, like Leadbitter a key member of Roy Keane’s Sunderland side, has been linked with the Blues all summer, having reportedly watched by Town in 2004 during his time at Wrexham.

The Trinidad and Tobago international eventually moved on to Luton in 2005 on a free transfer, having joined Wrexham from Defence Force in his home country in 1999.

The 5ft 11in tall right-sided winger, who can also operate at full-back, joined Keane's Sunderland for £1.5 million in January 2007.

Capped 74 times by his country, scoring four goals, Edwards's first season at the Stadium of Light was hampered by a hamstring problem and then a broken leg. Those injuries have limited the 30-year-old's Sunderland appearances to 37 starts and 19 games from the bench, yielding five goals.

Last season, Edwards, who is contracted to the Black Cats until 2010, spent a month on loan at Wolves, making five starts and one sub appearance but failing to score.

The midfielder, who played every minute of Trinidad and Tobago's games at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, including their 2-0 defeat to England, was in the Sunderland side which faced Norwich at Carrow Road on Monday, a match Roy Keane is understood to have watched.

Like Leadbitter, Edwards is now set to hold talks regarding personal terms with the Blues.

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whymark added 19:35 - Aug 26 how much 4 the pair?
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BaltachaFanClub added 19:37 - Aug 26 Phil!! did you get this from my forum post ?
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haynes_is_a_ledgend added 19:39 - Aug 26 yh how much and sodd sunderland we want gio we want gio just get him the rest will be sorted 7 million will do hey marcus you know its right
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ItfcLoyal added 19:39 - Aug 26 Get in Son class player if we sign theese two McManus and a striker we will get promoted .
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OnlyOneSirBobby added 19:43 - Aug 26 don't get too excited just yet, this has whitehead and murphy written all over it, just wait for stoke or hull to come ruin our party now!!! oh well...guess we'll just have to ask harry about gio again....perleeeeeeeease
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SmiffyboyITFC4ever added 19:44 - Aug 26 Quality players the pair of them..Leadbitter in particular would add some zip and energy to midfield..he and Colback could be a interesting paring in the middle of the park..Let's hope that these deals go through....They may take time to settle, but definitely the type of players we need.. Nice one keano...in you we believe..CMON YOU BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ItfcLoyal added 19:53 - Aug 26 Havit_Blue what did i say ;)
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aejb added 19:57 - Aug 26 Gio dos santos again has been spotted at the training ground facilities!!! COME ON
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MCGOODERZ added 20:00 - Aug 26 Gio dos santos is playing for spurs as you said that...
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ItfcLoyal added 20:00 - Aug 26 serious where you find that out
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GeorgiDoundarov added 20:08 - Aug 26 I only hope these two agree to drop a division! Because this is the most difficult thing to overcome. Till now we had several bids accepted by the respective clubs but the players rejected us... Just pray to get these two and a striker please!
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bostonusablue added 20:11 - Aug 26 Gio is in fact playing for Spurs at Doncaster right now. I like both Edward and Leadbetter; one will add steel, the other will add pace and they both have plenty of skill!! Keane is working his magic. 3 points on Saturday!
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dazzer66 added 20:17 - Aug 26 keane will be sacked by 6pm sat watch this space..........
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HawkeyeBlue added 20:21 - Aug 26 I see Edwards a lot in CONCACAF for T&T against the USA... I like him, he would be a good acquisition.
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Oxblue added 20:28 - Aug 26 Yes both would be good signings makes a change to get players from a league above.Both would add experience both on and off the pitch! come on you blue's 3 points Saturday to kick start our season!!!
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elburro3 added 20:30 - Aug 26 Good news. Fingers crossed these boys sign and we can hopefully get a win on Saturday. Its about time..
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kerryblue added 20:51 - Aug 26 Two good signings and hopefully both will be completed.
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OsborneOneNil added 21:00 - Aug 26 Edwards looked quality v's Norwich the other night.
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December1963 added 21:10 - Aug 26
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parkinshair added 21:21 - Aug 26 It would give us all a much needed boost if these two signed. Personnal terms may be a stumbling block though.
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December1963 added 21:29 - Aug 26 No team was ever successful conceding goals.The teams that get promoted do not alwayse score the most goals but they are the teams that concede the least . We need 2 strong central defenders and a better fullback than Delaney.The best Town teams of the past had this ie Hunter and Beattie, Butcher and Osman.Sort out the defence and the rest will follow
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Suffolktractor added 22:11 - Aug 26 While we are up at Sunderland, could we have Steve Bruce as well please!
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itfcserbia added 22:18 - Aug 26 jordan henderson please
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MarkITFC added 22:18 - Aug 26 Great if we can get theses in , Edwards is great at counter attacking , this is the players we need also Leadbitter is good and would make a great add to the squd , just hope we can pull this off. It would had been good if we got Stephen Mcmanus... but if we get these it would even better . please can we get Giovani !!!
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jas0999 added 22:28 - Aug 26 Very good news, but after the blow of thinking the Celtic guy is on his I am not counting my chicken. A striker and centre half need to follow.
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