Aston Villa are the latest Premier League club to be linked with a move for Town youngster Connor Wickham. Chelsea were mentioned in connection with the 16-year-old last month and are one of a number of top flight sides who have been keeping an eye on him since his days as an academy schoolboy.

FA rules mean that Wickham is unable to sign a professional contract with the Blues until his 17th birthday on March 31st, but Town have always been confident that the 6ft 3in tall frontman will put pen to paper on a deal as soon as he can.

Wickham, whose youth also prevents him from going out on loan this season, recently netted a hat-trick for England’s U17s in a European Championships qualifier against Azerbaijan and was on the bench during Town’s 1-1 draw at Reading on Saturday. He scored his first senior goals in the Carling Cup victory over Shrewsbury in August.

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Jambo added 08:52 - Nov 12 Won't happen, it's tabloid bobbins!
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PutYaBootsOnKeano added 09:00 - Nov 12 Yep, tabloid twonk.
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gatesy added 09:01 - Nov 12 Its defo true, i saw martin o'neill in colchester last night, grasping a pen and holding what looked like a contract and i heard " tee hee hee, that'll teach that roy to knock us proddys!" Im guessing he'd just visited the wickham homestead.
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FormerlyCGS added 09:12 - Nov 12 Dont think he will go at this young age, maybe when he 18 and were in league 1.
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bigfish added 09:14 - Nov 12 Hopefully he is settled at PR and will sign let's make sure he is made welcome
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dirtydingusmagee added 09:29 - Nov 12 so you reckon come March 31st when we are going down to league one ,he will have a problem with deciding to stay or join Prem team , RIGHT !
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Cardinals added 09:34 - Nov 12 Chuff off Villa!
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devontractorboy added 09:44 - Nov 12 Go to www.sellingthefamilysilveroff.co.uk they're brilliant, you can get things called Rhodes, Clarke, Haynes, all cheap & seem to perform better after they were flogged off. Can't see it being true as Wickham has yet to make his mark at championship level
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tractorboybig added 09:47 - Nov 12 Why not, sold all the other good youngsters, I think its club policy?
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rootmay added 10:13 - Nov 12 KEANO!
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mripswichtown added 10:14 - Nov 12 gatesy you have no prof of that its just paper talk! don't be a fool and believe everything the papers say!
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SomershamBlue added 10:22 - Nov 12 It may or may not be 'true'. Any young player who manages to score a hat-trick for England is going to become easy meat for journalists speculation.
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nobrain added 10:31 - Nov 12 No big surprise, is it? If a hat-trick for England doesn't bring him to the attention of the Prem clubs, I don't know what will!
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Surco72 added 10:34 - Nov 12 Hopefully Wickham will want to stay and learn and prove himself where he will actually play ,but saying that will he actually learn we seem to be letting our youngsters down over recent seasons . On a seperate issue, a question to all town fans ; Those who say Magiltons squad was poor with weak players Wright,Clarke,Haynes.Garvan,Shumi,Campo,Thatcher,Miller and that Keane has built a better squad with better players and team that will get us promotion and last in the premiership, when under Jim were we in the bottom 3 for a third of the season ? Does this mean Jim was excelling as a manager to get us near the playoffs with a poor team or Keane is horribly under performing with a good team ? And before you all start shouting i thought it was time for Jim to go ,and do not want Keane to leave yet but we have to ask the questions

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JayITFC added 11:19 - Nov 12 March 31st can't come quick enough... Get him tied down to a 5 year deal!
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bedsitfc added 11:22 - Nov 12 i think we are under performing with a stronger team but like i said before things will change and keane will get us promoted within his contract. hope connor does stay and i think he will coz come next season him and priskin will be a force in this league but do worry about his age we dont want to make him injury prone like micheal owen. as he is still developing
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Trimleytractor added 11:51 - Nov 12 Clearly there was a Market for Rhodes, Clarke and Haynes but surely one Wickham Market is enough!
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Keaneish added 11:51 - Nov 12 Surco! How can you put Miller, Thatcher, Clarke and Haynes in that list? Get Real. Leadbitter or Miller? Leadbitter. Rosenior or Thatcher? Rosenior Clarke/Haynes or Priskin? Priskin The squad HAS improved in quality. The reason Clarke and Haynes are 'doing well' is because they're being played in the positions, somehting Magilton failed to recognise! And who said Haynes is currently doing well? I think we should have kept Shumi, but there you go.

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Surco72 added 11:59 - Nov 12 Keanish you failed to answer the question , so you think that the squad is much better yet we are in a much worse position than ever under Magilton ? So are you saying Keane is doing poorly with a better team ?
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Greektractor added 12:32 - Nov 12 trimley tractor - "wickham market, surely one's enough?" great shout
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StowTractorBoy added 12:32 - Nov 12 I think we all know that Wickham will be much sought after and I fear this could be another Palace scenario whereby you raise the player who then excels and moves on for peanuts because they are not on a professional contract. This predicament has poisened the mind of Jordan at Palace and I can see his frustration. Unfortunately the same thing could happen here and we will get peanuts for Wickham.

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superblueflude added 12:34 - Nov 12 Surco i believe that the reason the team has had a crap start is all done to Magilton leaving - not because of what he did but because of who he was. Magic was everyones friend and players played no matter how crap they were as long as they were mags friends. At the beginning of this season they realised that things have changed and that they have a real manager in charge - its not about Keane any manger coming in would have had the same effect - only now have they got used to that and the players you see in the team now are the ones that can hack it, the likes of Garvan, Haynes etc are players that couldnt handle the transition of knowing that they had to work hard to play football. So for me its nothihg to do with Keane. and regards to Magiltons success now - 3 reasons - better squad, Doesnt know anyone and doesnt have any say in transfers at all.

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Trimleytractor added 12:50 - Nov 12 Greektractor - thanks a lot!
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chalkandcheese added 12:52 - Nov 12 wont be villa, he will go to man utd as i have said many a time... deal has been done... you watch.....
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Surco72 added 12:53 - Nov 12 Superflude you are also not answering the question saying that players played no matter how crap they were because they were Jims mates ,those players are gone so you are ageeing that the squad now is alot sronger and better yet we are in a lot worse league position than ever before ,then how can it not be Keanes fault ? After 7 months as manager this is now his team however you like to look at it ,he has had plenty of time to bring in players after assessing them over the summer but said he was happy with his squad ,what has changed ?

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