Town have confirmed that striker Frank Nouble has signed from Wolves for an undisclosed fee. The 21-year-old, who will wear the number 35 shirt, has put pen to paper on an 18-month deal.

The 6ft 3in tall Londoner began his career with Chelsea’s youth set-up before joining West Ham in 2009.

While with the Hammers, he spent spells on loan at West Brom, Swindon, Swansea, Barnsley, Charlton, Gillingham and Barnsley again.

England U17 and U19 international - who also qualifies for the Ivory Coast via his parents - made only six starts and 13 sub appearances while at Upton Park, scoring just the one senior goal.

In the summer he moved on a free transfer to Wolves, signing a two-year deal, but has made only two sub appearances in the Championship, in addition to one start, two games from the bench and one goal in the Capital One Cup.

Overall, he has made 41 senior starts and 33 sub appearances for his various clubs, scoring nine goals.

Nouble would appear to be a direct replacement for former loanee Tyrone Barnett, whose spell from Peterborough was cut short by a knee injury, providing competition for Daryl Murphy.

Manager Mick McCarthy added two more strikers - Aaron Mclean and David McGoldrick - to his squad last week and on Saturday confirmed that he was still chasing ex-loanee DJ Campbell, who recently went back to QPR.

The Blues would now appear to have a surfeit of frontmen with Nathan Ellington having returned to the club yesterday after his loan from Scunthorpe and Murphy, Michael Chopra, Jason Scotland, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas - who McCarthy views as primarily a striker - Ronan Murray and the injured Paul Taylor already at Portman Road.

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Talbs77 added 20:08 - Jan 8 Got a way to go before he cab be compared to big Dalian but good luck to the boy and if he does end up as good as Dalian, what a player we've signed!
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theobald1985 added 20:13 - Jan 8 good young signing very pleased.i would like to see ronan murray get more of a chance to prove himself tho
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brendanh added 20:17 - Jan 8 Goals to games ratio is poor. Let's hope he's a late bloomer.
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RetroBlue added 20:41 - Jan 8 at 21 yrs old he's hardly the finished article.....nor is JET. Its whether MM and the coaches can now mould and develop these precocious talents into key players: Stand back and watch the Magician at work, and marvel at its simplicity, bourne out of experience!
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DallianAttkinson added 21:30 - Jan 8 Not sure if this guy is any good as I have never seen him play but has all the attributes to achieve in this league good luck frank!
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mitchitfc96 added 22:22 - Jan 8 TractorBoyOlly you can never have to many strikers. Welcome to the club Frank.
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Walk_the_Wark added 00:44 - Jan 9 Don't offload Chopra. He's a complete footballer, not like DJ who is just a finisher. Chopra needs time, With his head right he's the best striker in this league, no doubt. A bit worried that under MM we will be big, hard and one dimensional...
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Walk_the_Wark added 00:46 - Jan 9 And can we stop lauding over MM until he proves he's actually any good people??? lol
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TheWizardDeVos added 08:06 - Jan 9 Well, apart from minimal success on a loan spell at Gillingham this boy has achieved nothing so far in his career. He hasn't been able to score goals during loan spells at various lower division clubs. He is still young though and I'm hoping both the transfer fee and the wages aren't too excessive. Here's hoping he isn't just another Emmanuel-Thomas.
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