Town have completed the signing of Sunderland keeper Márton Fülöp on a two-year deal. The Hungarian international, who trained with his new team-mates this morning, is understood to have moved for a fee of £750,000.

An international team-mate and close friend of Town striker Tamás Priskin, Fülöp started his career with MTK Hungaria during which time he went on loan to Elöre and Siófok, also in his homeland.

After a three-day trial in July 2004, the 6ft 5in tall keeper joined Spurs. In 2004/05 he spent time on loan at Chesterfield, then the following season moved on to Coventry on a similar basis.

In November 2006 he joined Roy Keane’s Sunderland, making his move to the Stadium of Light a permanent one in the following January for a fee of £900,000.

Fulop, who has won 21 Hungarian caps, moved on loan to Leicester in August 2007 and was expected to stay with the Foxes until the end of the season. However, after the clubs failed to agree a fee for his permanent move to the Walkers Stadium in the following January — Leicester offered £1 million, Sunderland wanted £3 million — he returned to Wearside.

In February 2008 he briefly joined Stoke on loan but was recalled after four days to cover an injury at Sunderland, however, the Potters and Black Cats agreed a £3 million fee that summer but the move eventually broke down.

Last season Fülöp made only 14 appearances for the Black Cats with Craig Gordon the first choice and Trevor Carson the regular sub. More recently Belgian U21 international Simon Mignolet has also moved to the Stadium of Light. Gordon suffered a broken arm in pre-season and Bruce is looking to sign another senior keeper.

Towards the end of the 2009/10 campaign Fülöp joined Manchester City on an emergency loan basis as cover for the injured Shay Given, but his move to Eastlands was never expected to stretch beyond the final games of the Premier League season.

Blues boss Roy Keane has stated that he likes to have three keepers in his squad and with Richard Wright departing in the summer wanted an additional glovesman to compete with Brian Murphy and Arran Lee-Barrett. TWTD first reported the Blues’ interest in Fülöp in May.

Fülöp, who had a year left on his Sunderland contact, had also been linked with newly-promoted La Liga side Hercules but he understood to have turned down the move to Spain. Anderlecht and Olympiakos were also reportedly interested earlier in the summer, along with a number of Premier League sides, West Brom and Fulham believed to be amongst them.

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BrizzleTractor added 12:11 - Aug 5 Finally!
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Swailsey added 12:11 - Aug 5 "More in a bit" - ha! Welcome to Ipswich Marton!
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SMS added 12:11 - Aug 5 Wooooohhhhhoooooooo
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TotalBlue added 12:12 - Aug 5 At last was thinking it would fall through. Now we have him hopefuly roy and clegg can get some more sorted. Still think the chopra story is a smoke screen though I think they are in for somone else and not letting on
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Smithy added 12:12 - Aug 5 can he also play up front??
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Wallingford_Boy added 12:13 - Aug 5 Only two year deal? He is keeping his options open then..
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JayITFC added 12:14 - Aug 5 Good news it's done but only 2 years!? Worried he'll be signing for free for someone else on a Bosman next Xmas and that's 750k gone!
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joshuanelli added 12:15 - Aug 5 Get in there !! Can someone please tell me why this has taken so long to go through? At least he'll get a few days training with the team but i can't see Keano throwing him into the team on Saturday bearing in mind the rivalry between Boro and Sunderland! Good bit of business RK !!
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ozzydog added 12:15 - Aug 5 Good goalkeeper this bloke Look forward to the day Beano walks and we get a decent manager in but to be fair this is a good signing. First choice keeper without a doubt proberbly the best keeper in the Championship
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BerlinBlue added 12:15 - Aug 5 now he's actually here, officially, and people are moaning that it's only a two-year deal! come on!
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Snedders added 12:16 - Aug 5 Great news!
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Blue4life added 12:17 - Aug 5 Great news. Now we need a striker!! COME ON CHOPRA!!
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PablosRightBoot added 12:17 - Aug 5 We never sign anybody moan moan moan. Oh yea, welcome to Ipswich Marton! COYB!
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Moisha added 12:18 - Aug 5 Thank f**k for that...... I can get some work done now instead of looking on here all day to see if we have signed someone!! welcome to the club Marton
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hadleighboyblue added 12:19 - Aug 5 good signing for a key position , hopefully it might be good for his mate Priskin too.......still got hopes of him coming good and this might just help him
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sirbenofmorlingshire added 12:20 - Aug 5 Happy days... hope he's the first of a very much needed few!
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Jewell_do added 12:23 - Aug 5 I'm still confused...our defence was the only decent thing about last season, take away the Newcastle and Sheff U hammerings. Murphy would've been fine as no.1 and to spend that £750,000 on fee/wages for a top striker.
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Billy_boi19 added 12:25 - Aug 5 good addition to the squad but what annoys me the most guys is that there is perfectly good players on the free transfer list that could do a job for us and i dont understand the harm of atleast offering them a trial players like: -Jeremie Aliadiere -Wilfred Bouma -Febian Brandy -Stephen Caldwell -Anthony Capaldi -Jay Demerit -Andrade Filipe Teixeira -Kerrea Gilbert -Marlon Harewood -Toni Kallio -Robert Koren -Benjani Mwaruwari -Erik Nevland -Liam Rosenior -Darius Vassell -Stephen Wright i just feel that we are short of cover and some of these players would be great cover if not first team players. and its just a question of attracting them here and their wage demands which for some of them i would imagine being quite high but nothing ventured nothing gained

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blueherts added 12:25 - Aug 5 Great now for Right back - Andrew Davies , Creative Mid and Striker - Whittingham , Chops , Austin or Lambert or maybe Beattie ??
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Billy_boi19 added 12:27 - Aug 5 some more would be sam hewson and paul scharner as well
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cartface07 added 12:28 - Aug 5 great bit of business but i would like to see him and murphy competing for number 1 shirt. Also Lee Barett lookd very good against Spurs XI
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NORFOLK_BLUE added 12:30 - Aug 5 Hopefully Fulop can help Priskin pull his finger out! they are meant to be close friends apparently....
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NW10_Tractor added 12:32 - Aug 5 I hope that Marton doesn't turn out to be a "Fulop" ((How my sides ache))
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Jewell_do added 12:35 - Aug 5 billyboi.....good point. You forget a certain Richard Wright, granted he had a horror season last time but the year before was our best player by a mile. Must be on the exact same wage as Fulop but without the £750,000 fee. But of course he never had ties with Sunderland. With 2 days left all we know need is a striker x 2, RB, CB, Attacking CM and a RM.
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dobbie73 added 12:36 - Aug 5 Yay, finally! Welcome aboard Marton - let's hope you are the first of 2 or 3 new faces this week! COYB!!!!!!
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