Wood, who is said to be costing Town £800,000, has only a year left on his contract at Hillsborough, although earlier in the summer Owls manager Brian Laws said he was confident that the 6ft 3in tall defender would put pen to paper on new terms.
The Osset-born player came through Wednesday's youth system and is their longest-serving player, having made his first team debut in 2003.
A Wednesday supporter, he was named joint-captain along with Steve Watson last summer but handed in a transfer request in September, which was rejected by the the club. Interest from Crystal Palace, Birmingham City and Coventry City was subsequently reported.
In November last year, Wednesday exercised an option to extend Wood's contract by a year until the summer of 2010.
In 2005/06 Wood was included in a Football League Select side which faced an Italian Serie B team and has now made 171 starts and 12 sub appearances for his only club, scoring eight goals, two of them coming in his last two games.
A central defender appears to be one of Roy Keane’s priorities during the final hours of the transfer window with Celtic’s Darren O’Dea linked over the weekend.
The former Irish U21 international skipper is now said to have signed a new contract with the Bhoys but is set to join a Championship side who aren’t Town on loan tomorrow. Wolves are also reported to be interested in a temporary switch.
Elsewhere, young Spanish striker Joselu, believed to be interesting the Blues earlier in the summer, has signed for Real Madrid from Celta Vigo, but has immediately been loaned back to his former club.
don't know much about him, but glad we're making progress, always thought we needed another CB, even before the season began, and he certainly has good size and is still young...sounds promising
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Wood be quality (excuse the awful pun). Haven't seen him much, but on FIFA he is fooking awesome. He also develops into a top, top, top player. Very exciting.
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Will it happen or is this more hot air? Triggs will be signing juat as soon as the kennel club can fax over the transfer papers. Apparently he dribbles and drools with the ball really well - but he does have a habbit of sniffing the oppositions bums and as for what he did the last time he was asked to mark the post... in front of 30,000 fans it was disgraceful!
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Looks like a good signing if we get him :p tall and strong and has loads of experience in this league so would be a good signing and I agree with one of the comments about signing simone jackson he is quality
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Can't see why we would want to lose McCauley, even if Wood came. If Boro do want him, doesn't that tell you something about his ability? Also, we seem to be selling players for about half of what we bought them for only a short time ago. Of course we know nothing about what is really going on. Maybe there really will be surprises, but I'm not holding my breath. All will be revealed (hopefully) by 17:00 today. But if the team strengthening is only partially resolved by then (the most likely scenario) then I suppose we'll be into the loan carousel instead. COYB
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Sheffield Wednesday's Wood Close to Town Move
