Town are amongst a number of clubs to have made loan enquiries regarding Chelsea winger or striker Scott Sinclair. The Blues, Swansea and Blackpool are all believed to be chasing the 21-year-old former Bristol Rovers trainee.

Sinclair’s chances at Chelsea have been rare since he joined them for a fee which could ultimately reach £1 million in 2005 and he has been out on loan at Plymouth, QPR, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Birmingham and Wigan in recent seasons.

The England U17, U18, U19 and U20 international is well known to Blackpool boss Ian Holloway, having played under him at Plymouth and Holloway was also keen to sign the Bath-born player when he was manager at Leicester.

Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers, understood to have been Roy Keane’s target for the role of Town assistant manager, will also know Sinclair well from his time running Chelsea’s reserve team.

Blackpool appear to be the frontrunners due to Sinclair’s link with Holloway, the Tangerines’ Premier League status and his girlfriend Helen Flanagan, a Coronation Street actress, living in the North-West.

Meanwhile, Blackpool are said to be amongst the clubs interested in Town skipper Jon Walters, who is reported to have handed in a transfer request. Stoke City and QPR have also been linked.

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robdaful added 12:44 - Aug 3 Would be good on a season long loan. Pacy winger. I think he can play on either side. But correct me if I'm wrong.
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Blue_it added 12:50 - Aug 3 agree that this makes sense, however feel that Chelsea are more likley to allow him to go to a Premier League side like last season.
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Rydeabluehorse added 12:53 - Aug 3 Would be very good for us but extremely unlikely unless he wants to stay close to London. With his girlfriend being oop north and his relationship with Ollie, Blackpool are the favourites.
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wisebluey added 12:57 - Aug 3 he'll be off to blackpool then ........
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NORFOLK_BLUE added 12:59 - Aug 3 would be awesome! I have always rated him very highly. would be a quality addition to our squad. He is fast, with a good ability cross. Big things have been expected of him at Chelsea. But with his friendship with both Brendan Rodgers and Ian Holloway, i very much doubt he will end up here. Here's to hoping anyway....! Go on Roy, go for it.....!
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MarcFowler added 13:03 - Aug 3 Good luck to us, eh?
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HampshireBlue added 13:05 - Aug 3 Helen Flanagan eh? Lucky fella.
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RetroBlue added 13:09 - Aug 3 can premmiership clubs loan players to one another ?
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TractorMan added 13:23 - Aug 3 I've a friend who is a season ticket holder at Wigan and said he was very poor when there and Sinclair had an attitude problem thinking he was too big for the club. I'd prefer we steered clear!
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Back_The_Boss added 13:28 - Aug 3 TractorMan - It's better than no-one! Not the best candidiate.
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GeorgiDoundarov added 13:28 - Aug 3 I don't believe this will happen. We missed on a lot more "realistic" targets than Sinclair. I don't even believe the rumour is trueful... Let us concentrate on Chopra or whoever the striker Keane is targeting because we will not be scoring anytime soon.
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OsborneOneNil added 13:31 - Aug 3 Not all that IMO.
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TractorMan added 13:36 - Aug 3 Kingkeano - I'd say it isn't better than anyone as he won't be cheap in terms of wages, so as we can loan people at almost anypoint as an "emergency" then we are better off waiting until the window closes and the premiership clubs have registered their 25 squad members. A deal can certainly be done then as they will want those players not in the squads playing football.

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SiBo added 13:41 - Aug 3 I agree TractorMan... to a point. Whilst we may get better players once the premier league squads are set as 25 is not a large number fo some of these teams... we would be well into the season by Sept 1st... It really depends if we sign anyone permanant (Not Furlop... a Foward) in the next week or so.
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Redmond added 13:50 - Aug 3 i would love him to come to us he is amazing player, gives you speed and can cross a ball
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MarkITFC added 14:38 - Aug 3 would be a great signing , but can see this going like every other player were after !
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SiBo added 14:39 - Aug 3 Redmond: But would you still say that if the rumour from wigan is true and he's so full of himself he doesn't put the effort in and is therefore not that good. (In addition to the morale issue of having someone of that ilk in the squad)
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StowTractorBoy added 14:44 - Aug 3 Another Danny Haynes - no thanks.
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Blue_Square added 15:11 - Aug 3 No thanks... On a parralel to our current worst player Lee Martin.... Both drifted from loan club to loan club, before muggins Keane blows 12k a week on wages, and 2M on a fee... Not again Ta.....
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suffolksam added 07:09 - Aug 4 buy him for 5 mill then we can sell him next year for 200 thou ..thats how it works here isnt it ?
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s6blue added 08:21 - Aug 4 we dont need anyone with his attitude. Cant see him doing much on a wet wednesday night at scunthorpe...another lee martin if you ask me
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Rayner_ITFC97 added 14:03 - Aug 5 Sounds good , but chelsea will let him go to a low premier league side west ham , west brom e.g .. do we need another winger ? FOCUS on a 20 goal a season Forward !?
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