Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has told his scouts to keep a close eye on Town’s £10 million-rated left-back Tyrone Mings, according to reports this morning.

The Mirror claims Mourinho sees Mings as a potential successor to John Terry, believing that the 21-year-old will ultimately prove to be a top level centre-half rather than continuing in the left-back role where he has made his name this season.

Elsewhere, it’s speculated that the Premier League leaders could make a move in January.

It’s not the first time Chelsea have been linked with Mings and they should know all about him with his father Adie working for them as a scout.

Arsenal, Everton, Newcastle, Manchester United, Sunderland and Burnley are amongst a host of Premier League clubs making regular visits to Portman Road to watch the former Chippenham Town defender in action.

Earlier in the week, Blues managing director Ian Milne told TWTD that Town are determined to keep hold of their star names in January.

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NeverGoingUp added 09:46 - Nov 20 That's him gone in January then, if the article is true.
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gazzmac4 added 09:53 - Nov 20 I think Tyrone is a grounded individual and although he will want to play in the Prem ASAP i think he would be aware that staying with us, even if returning on loan would be better for him. The best chance we have of keeping Tyrone and Dids et al is if we are still where we are now in January. We need to keep the momentum up and keep the promotion dream alive!
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Jeff_winger added 10:02 - Nov 20 hate to say it but I really cant see us turning down £10 million, there were fans in the summer saying we should take £3 million from palace
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bgexile added 10:03 - Nov 20 He'll go I'm afraid. I really hope it's not to Chelski though...anyone but them. Arsenal would be the best fit I think.
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pennblue added 10:06 - Nov 20 Chelsea? I don't think so, we'll be spanking them down at Stamford Bridge this time next year.
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BLUEBEAT added 10:06 - Nov 20 Sell him for £10M definitely. Still raw and Parr is the finished article and plays best at leftback anyway.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 10:07 - Nov 20 50, million plus Mings on loand for the rest of this season and all of next alongside a couple of decent make weight youngsters please, at least if he goes to Chelsea we ought to get decent money for him. Maybe his dad will look at all the youngsters to have come and gone there without making an impact and warn him off. Alterntivly he will go there spend 3 years on loan and then be sold for a profit so a sell on clause is essential

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B1TFC added 10:19 - Nov 20 Don't sell at the quickest sign of ££££ Clearly with all this attention he is getting, there is a good chance of some decent cash!! Don't sell him for cheap and have all the usual sell on fee clauses etc!! We want the actual cash!! Up front, in full! Then maybe we can do something with it! Rather than having dribs and drabs rolling in when the triggers happen I'd rather not sell any of our current crop, however, I am a realist, and know everyone has a price, but the mentioned money for TM would get us some squad depth, and Super Mick doesn't spend big bucks anyway In Mick we trust

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spanishblue added 10:19 - Nov 20 I for one can't wait to see him play at centre back.Surely with his size and athleticism he is going to be priceless,at the rate he is progressing, three white lions at the euros is not out of question.if Luke shaws worth silly money this boy will bust many a record. I hope which ever path he chooses he has a great career.Sadly it will be with a club playing in Europe reguarlly.

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miltonsnephew added 10:23 - Nov 20 Maybe if they take MINGS we could get Ryan Bertrand and or Kurt Zouma as part of the exchange on loan!! & £10+million in the bank!!
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Michael11 added 10:25 - Nov 20 To be fair, when you're £70m in debt you probably can't afford to turn down £10m. We could be clever here and sell him for £10m and take him on loan for the rest of the season, buy a few quality players in January and secure our place in the top 6. I just hope he doesn't go to a big club and fall off the face of the earth like Scott Sinclair, Jack Rodwell etc.
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rfretwell added 10:27 - Nov 20 I think Ty will stay at least for this seasons promotion push but isn't it great that we actually have some young stars after years of so few coming thro into the first team squad.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 10:36 - Nov 20 If we could hold on to him, go up and he had 1 decent prem season with us then suddleny he worth 25 million surely? (based on luke shaw anyway)
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MattinLondon added 10:40 - Nov 20 How many young players has Chelsea brought from the Championship or even Premier League and made them better and regular first team players? Not many. Terry still has a season left in him in the Premier League and so if Mings does leave it may well be a frustrating season for him on the bench. People have mentioned about a possible season loan but if Chelsea buy him then there will surly be a few 'smaller' Premeir League clubs who will be willing to offer him first team football. And has Chelsea have all the money they will hold nearly all of the cards. But it does show that there are bargains out there if you look closely - would Keane have found Mings...nah

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Surco72 added 10:40 - Nov 20 Or Blueandtrue we could go up and he could be found out at premiership level and be worth less ? Like the Leicester , Burnley defeders this season ? If he goes to Chelsea he will be third choice , if Bertrand cannot get a game and has to go on loan I cannot see Mings getting a game
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Lightningboy added 10:41 - Nov 20 We'd be crazy to sell this season..if Ty carries on the way he is then he'll be valued at £10m+ next summer..by then ofcourse hopefully we'll be needing him in the Prem ourselves.
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westernblue added 10:45 - Nov 20 Hopefully Mings' advisers will be mindful of Cresswell's phenomenal progress in his three full Championship seasons with Town, then slotting confidently into the Premiership. And I guess that - crazy money apart (whatever that is in the Prem. these days) - manager and owner are only too well aware of the contribution Tyrone can make to making promotion a realistic goal over say the next couple of seasons.

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miltonsnephew added 10:51 - Nov 20 Things change very quickly in football, rated 3 million in pre season 10+ million now, a dip in for or injury by January and parr takes over, MINGS can't find the form again to get back in the team he'll be back down to £3 million or less. This is the gamble. And I'm sure if MINGS is going MM will have something in the offing to not leave himself short. Micks not stupid, he's signed a 3 year contract and gets on well with ME. If it came to it I'm sure ME would do all he can to maintain the promotion push!

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itfc1981 added 11:02 - Nov 20 The club would be mad to sell in Jan, his price is only going to go up by the end of the season. It seems Marcus Evans has the balls to resist bid of 10mil. But It also seems most of our fans dont!
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Miles added 11:09 - Nov 20 We need to just say to any team that asks about him to come back in the summer and maybe do a deal then. We need ty focused on this season and not have his head somewhere else.
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Ryorry added 11:18 - Nov 20 Phil/Gav - pleasse notify us when a big Prem club is NOT monitoring Mings. That would be news! :) PS Please Mr ME if you read this, how will we get promoted if we keep selling our young talent? It'd be worth far more to keep them and go up!! :)
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MVBlue added 11:30 - Nov 20 Really does feel like the Burley years now. And thats a good thing. A Tarrico moment.
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Paulc added 12:50 - Nov 20 If his dad is a Chelsea scout, should he not have persuaded them to take a £10k 'punt' when he was at Chippenham? Assuming he moves for £10m he has cost Chelsea £9.99m! I'd get the sack if I did that to my company.
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Jimmy86 added 13:17 - Nov 20 If we recieve a bid of 10 million in Jan then for me it's an absolute no brained and we have to take it. I would obviously include a sell on clause and top ups for England caps etc, but that money could be used to secure some top signings in Jan to help us get promoted. Could even be the possibility of loaning him back. Win win situation
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theblueginger added 13:18 - Nov 20 Selling our star young player to a strong Prem team, and using some of the money to sign a couple of good players to add to our promotion push. Have we seen this before?
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