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Town Close to Signing Danish Left-Back
Thursday, 30th Jul 2015 22:57

Town are close to completing the signing of Danish international left-back Jonas Knudsen, who is currently with Superliga club Esbjerg fB, his hometown side.

TWTD understands that Knudsen, 22, is one of three targets the Blues are currently close to adding to their squad, manager Mick McCarthy having revealed that Town were making progress on several fronts earlier today.

We understand that members of the Town management have travelled to Denmark to watch Knudsen in action on a number of occasions in the last few weeks and were evidently impressed.

Despite his youth, 6ft 1in tall Knudsen has already made 150 senior domestic starts and six sub appearances, scoring 16 goals and has won two full Danish caps. He recently played at the European U21 Championships in the Czech Republic and has also won caps at U18, U19 and U20 levels.

TWTD understands that the clubs are close to completing the deal and the move could be confirmed before the weekend, while Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet is also reporting that a fee is agreed and the details of the switch aren't far off being finalised.

Trialist Giles Coke has impressed since joining the club at the end of last week and may well have done enough to be offered a contract.

Blues boss McCarthy is also currently assessing whether to offer terms to Guinean international Larsen Touré and midfielder Darren Ambrose.

Meanwhile, Town's U18s lost 5-0 to Manchester United in their opening game at a pre-season tournament at Tottenham's training ground. The hosts beat Liverpool 5-2 in tonight's other match.

Elsewhere, Sunderland are reported to have accepted an offer from Crystal Palace for ex-Blues striker Connor Wickham. The fee is said to be an initial £6 million rising to £9.5 million after top-up clauses.

If those figures are correct Town won't immediately receive anything from the sell-on clause - an undisclosed percentage of any profit - included in the 2011 deal which saw the 22-year-old join the Black Cats.

Wickham moved for an initial £8.1 million with a number of appearance milestones understood to have been triggered during his time on Wearside.


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blaggers added 22:59 - Jul 30
He was apparently off to Marseille last week! Is this Mick's way of Lurpak-ing the defence?
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TractorBoy666 added 23:00 - Jul 30
I know we'd need him mostly for his defensive work but just saw somebody post this wonder goal he scored! Sign him up Mick!
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Michael11 added 23:01 - Jul 30
Interesting. I'd never heard of Aaron Cresswell or Tyrone Mings at the time so let's hope he's another gem. I'd love to know who the other 2 players are that are close to signing.
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RoyKeanesDog added 23:05 - Jul 30
Sounds great.
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BLUETEL added 23:13 - Jul 30
Michael11 A RB and Jonnie Williams lol
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beardo7181 added 23:18 - Jul 30
Maybe we about to get another boost to coffers as Wickham due to sign for palace for 9 million
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shaunkingitfc added 23:21 - Jul 30
Plz plz plz o yerrrrr gonna cost money not going to happen
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topguy added 23:26 - Jul 30
Im happy with this get byrne as RB then can play Bk four of Byrne, Chambers, Berra, Knudsen. now that sounds better then an CM to feed the forwards then team complete and a good def this season.
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Suffolk_n_Good added 23:36 - Jul 30
Really happy with this news, young, pacy, a great potential signing.
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BlueandTruesince82 added 23:48 - Jul 30
Sounds good to me. Danish players tend to work hard and do the sjmple things well. Lets hooe get another classy left back roles though FPR
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Green_Army added 23:51 - Jul 30
Market value is £525k for Jonas Knudsen, so hopefully our bid is under £750k maximum...could turn out to be good business looking at his career thus far!
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JoHnNnY added 23:53 - Jul 30
Am I correct in thinking this is the first "signing" under the new management structure that's been "let out of the bag" before the deal is complete?!.. Probably due to a Danish reporter speculating, if true - let's hope it doesn't scupper the deal for us.
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Simonds92 added 23:54 - Jul 30
Not going to pretend I have any idea about this guy but despite being unknown he seems like he has a good pedigree and potential. Very excited by this! Always good to pick up a gem from abroad, hopefully cheaper than English prices too!
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MB26 added 23:57 - Jul 30
Fills a need and with our track record for full back he'll be worth £20 million in a few years time. In all seriousness, should he sign he will add competition to a position that is lacking and welcome addition.
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andy_ipswich1990 added 00:16 - Jul 31
Would be a brilliant signing!!! Rather than spending deep into the millions that's we got for mings( which I think we got WAY more than he is worth) is a good sign. He. Looks more attacking than we have had for a while and isn't going to cost that much either....... I have a good friend who is a hearts season ticket holder and he things that McGhee will eventually be the Scottish captain and will be better than Berra (only reason being is that he had got loads of pace for a defender)...............Bart in goal... Knudsen Berra chambers parr....skuse frazer mainland-miles and mcgoldrick behind pitman and muprhy.......... That is without bishop bru tabb henshall connoly sears smith gerken Stewart and the other additions before brentfotd away!!!! I'm really hopefully or us this year aslong as we have a proper solid defence. Everything in midfield and upfront especially is buzzing. I'm predicting Sears Murphy mcgoldrick and murphy to get 60 heals plus between then this year. COME ON YOU BLUES!!!! ITFC⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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andy_ipswich1990 added 00:18 - Jul 31
Goals **
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GeorgeITFC24 added 00:32 - Jul 31
no wonder we kept the number 3 shirt vacant!
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yun added 01:53 - Jul 31
This looks very promising indeed. Good height, experienced for his age, plenty of potential.
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GiveusaWave added 04:01 - Jul 31
If it goes ahead: definitely the kind of player with pedigree that we should be bringing in
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GiveusaWave added 04:36 - Jul 31
Has he got the Captains armband on in the picture?
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The_Messiah added 05:30 - Jul 31
Question is will he enjoy the training facilities and the 'great bunch of lads'? That'll be the deal clincher. ;-)
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muccletonjoe added 05:32 - Jul 31
Seen him score a fantastic goal in Denmark
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pennblue added 05:56 - Jul 31
Midfielders please and right back
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runaround added 07:03 - Jul 31
Will be great if it happens. Hope it gets done soon & we see Mick fill in those squad holes in the next few days
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GTRKing added 07:30 - Jul 31
Great Signing for us and only 22 so got years ahead of him.....

Hope deal is done soon :)
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