Town and Charlton are both lining up a move for Preston North End midfielder Paul Coutts, according to one of this morning’s tabloids. The 23-year-old scored for North End in Town’s 2-1 victory over the Lancastrians in April's final home game of last season.

The six-times-capped Scottish U21 international was a youth player with hometown club Aberdeen before moving on to Highland League side Cove Rangers.

Coutts, who is 6ft tall, joined Peterborough United in July 2008 after impressing in a trial — with Charlton also said to be interested at that point - and having made his name at London Road followed Posh boss Darren Ferguson to Deepdale in January 2010 for an undisclosed fee, signing a contract until June 2013.

Blues boss Paul Jewell was spotted at Preston watching the Lilywhites’ 0-0 FA Cup draw with Southend last month with Coutts playing the full 90 minutes of that game.

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saffronblue added 09:17 - Dec 9 Don't know much about him apart from he plays in the centre and has had some injury problems. I believe Ferguson tried to bring him back to Posh. Right sort of age but does this mean Andrews is not going to stay?
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yarmoblue added 09:17 - Dec 9 quality player
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JimmyJazz added 09:40 - Dec 9 Andrews won't be staying
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AYACCA added 10:25 - Dec 9 Sounds a bit young for Jewell. 'Maybe in 10 years son, we need to find the right blend of OAPS'
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RYITFC added 11:07 - Dec 9 I like the sound of that, a bit of height in the midfield. Maybe we could win the second ball. We keep hearing about links with these types of players but with the exception of Cresswell we never sign them, hopefully when Jewell says he's made mistakes this is the type of thing he is referring too.
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strikalite added 11:17 - Dec 9 All these links just builds our hopes up...I don't believe any of it anymore until the player actually signs, how many times have we been here?
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casanovacrow added 13:38 - Dec 9 rather have him than Andrews
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blueprint added 18:31 - Dec 9 Will probably opt for Charlton . Based on our form and theirs , Charlton are the more likely of the two sides to be in the Championship next season . Come on Town , prove me wrong.
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Suffolk_n_Good added 19:02 - Dec 9 don't know much about him, but any YOUNG NEW BLOOD in our midfield has got to be welcomed with open arms!!
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tractorboy2434 added 19:35 - Dec 9 Saw him play for Posh, good player but did'nt strike me as particularly tall !!
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jas0999 added 20:38 - Dec 9 Too yong for PJ surely? He prefers has been injury prone players.
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bohslegend added 21:38 - Dec 9 @ strikalite - would you prefer if we were not being linked to anybody at all?
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Michael11 added 02:21 - Dec 11 Nice to be linked with a talented young player for once, however, if he was that good why is it only us and charlton being linked with him?
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