Town have been keeping an eye on Real Zaragoza central defender Víctor Laguardia during the Spanish side’s tour of the UK. The La Liga club faced West Ham last Saturday, Norwich City on Wednesday and take on Wolves tomorrow.

The 21-year-old featured as a half-time sub in the 1-1 draw with the Canaries having been unused in the 2-0 defeat to the Hammers.Town are likely to be represented at Molineux on Saturday.

Laguardia came through the ranks at his local club, featuring for Zaragoza’s B side in the Tercera División before making his first team debut in a 1-0 victory over Tenerife in August 2009.

Two more senior appearances followed before the 6ft ½in tall right-sided defender suffered a training ground injury to his right knee which eventually required three operations and kept him sidelined for 17 months, including the whole of last season.

Prior to his lengthy spell out, Laguardia appeared for Spain at the 2009 U20 World Cup, playing three games as his side reached the round of the last 16. He was also a member of the U20 team which won the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Italy.

Caps at U21 level followed, including two in the qualifying phase for this summer’s European Championships.

Real Zaragoza are currently in the Spanish equivalent of administration with debts of £100 million and may have to offload players either on a permanent or loan basis.

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CanadianBlue added 22:48 - Aug 5 Unknown foreigner? Totally worth the risk :)
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Sospiri added 22:50 - Aug 5 I hope he has hair like Puyol
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robdaful added 22:54 - Aug 5 Ole Ole Ole Ole Laguardia Laguardia!!!!!
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robdaful added 22:55 - Aug 5 Tall and young centre back .........can't be bad.
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WeirdFishes added 22:58 - Aug 5 Hes a defender i want him
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FennersITFC added 22:59 - Aug 5 He's not that tall, but I'd love to give him a try, could be another jewell foreign stars!
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glm86 added 23:30 - Aug 5 Young, defender, hungry and he's spanish so what more could we ask for.....sign sign sign
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Mark added 23:36 - Aug 5 Laguardia, good name for a defender. He looks like this: www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/photo/111/147/0/picture.html#1111470 When Town were in administration we were forced to accept low bids for our stars, so as this guy has made only three appearances and had those operations hopefully we could get him cheaply.
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hollywoodginge added 00:09 - Aug 6 Iv been hoping we look abroad a bit more especially with the highly inflated British market at the moment, look how close we were to getting iziguire when Jim was in charge and look at him now! They are there to be had. In this case obviously that's a pretty serious injury he had but hopefully youth would have helped his recovery.
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51blue added 00:19 - Aug 6 could be the club that doesn't answer the phone?
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footyblue added 00:31 - Aug 6 but maybe have dodgy knee after being out that long
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ThatMuhrenCross added 00:37 - Aug 6 only rated 61 on fifa 11!!
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CGH added 00:38 - Aug 6 Some sort of headline in the offing about "Laguardia's in the arrival lounge" or if he's sent off "Laguardia departure..."
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lscooper23 added 01:17 - Aug 6 Sign him up along with Aljaz Struna!
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gypo added 06:36 - Aug 6 Footyblue - bullard has doggy knee but people wanted to gamble on him Worth a look if It's true.
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Marcus added 06:59 - Aug 6 Start the airport puns now...
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WeirdFishes added 07:23 - Aug 6 Hes a defender i want him
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ncharles added 08:33 - Aug 6 After recent bad experience of a home sick foreign player with a knee injury, I would like to see him play a few games. Loan with buy clause ?
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corshamblue added 08:53 - Aug 6 Good enough and fit enough to get a game for Real Zaragoza in pre season, should be worth a punt ? We need someone ahead of Smith and Delaney, urgently.
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billlm added 09:12 - Aug 6 good chance being spanish he will play the ball out and not hoof
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MAVERICK added 12:10 - Aug 6 http://www.as.com/todo-sobre/Laguardia/j18506 Must be worth a chance ! ole
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