Nottingham Forest are reported to have turned down a £750,000 from Town for James Perch. The versatile defender or midfielder has only a year remaining on his contract at the City Ground, but was very much a part of Billy Davies’s side during the second half of last season.

The 24-year-old came through the youth system at Forest, in which Town coach Ian McParland used to be employed, making his first senior appearance in 2004.

Born in Mansfield, Perch has played much of his career at right-back, but has also featured at centre-half, at left-back and in central or wide midfield.

Perch, 5ft 11in tall, captained the Tricky Trees during 2008/09, but missed the first half of last season with a stress fracture of the tibia and the armband was handed on to Paul McKenna. Forest’s second longest-serving current player, Perch has made 189 starts and 31 sub appearances for his only club, scoring 14 goals.

In January, Newcastle made an offer for Perch, which was also turned down by the Midlands club, who described it bid as “derisory”.

A right-back - or perhaps two - is very much on Town’s summer list of targets, while Perch’s versatility may also appeal with manager Roy Keane looking to reduce the size of his squad during the summer.

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BlueBadger added 22:27 - Jun 8 Oh Phil. That headline.
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524hudson added 22:30 - Jun 8 o dear what a pun !!!
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Suffolk_n_Good added 22:42 - Jun 8 2 parrots sat on a perch, one turns to the other & says "Can you smell fish?!"
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NewarkDan added 22:44 - Jun 8 Seen quite a bit of Perch as I live in Notts. Is a steady player who struggles in the fact that I think the player himself doesn't quite know what his best position is. Would be a useful aquisition but not sure worh ore than the 750k already bid.
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ChambersM added 22:52 - Jun 8 who?
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OnlyOneSirBobby added 23:30 - Jun 8 ChambersM you need to up your knowledge of championship football my friend....perch would be a very solid acquisition, altho i agree with newarkdan, 750k sounds about right and i wouldnt go any higher
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TrueBlue91 added 23:38 - Jun 8 Fir a minute there I thought Keane had taken the squad on a team building fishing trip when I read this headline...
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Blueknight85 added 23:41 - Jun 8 sorry Chambers we cant open contract talks with Glen Johnson until after the world cup. Prat
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TractorBoy added 23:50 - Jun 8 I enjoy a good pun, then I read this. ;)
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ChambersM added 01:27 - Jun 9 no need to call me a prat. Am i not allowed to ask who this guy is? Never heard of him...i dunno, he might be good. Prat
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tractorboynathan added 07:42 - Jun 9 I Like this player.
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Hamish1979 added 08:11 - Jun 9 Sprat
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maimeetang added 08:17 - Jun 9 For cods hake! Another rumour. Would have bream a nice signing though. I'd go up to 1mil.
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bluepeter added 08:42 - Jun 9 Holy Mackrel, this is not the plaice to argue boys or pike fun at each other. Perhaps you should be supporting the Gills?
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WeWereZombies added 09:14 - Jun 9 There is so much carping on about this headline, personally I can't see what Phil is angling at.
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MaySixth added 09:17 - Jun 9 There is a time and a plaice for such headlines as this.
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Sir_Bob added 09:43 - Jun 9 Sounds a bit fishy to me!
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TractorBoy added 10:07 - Jun 9 Don't make puns for the sheer halibut. We'll skate over that one...
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bluepeter added 10:40 - Jun 9 I'm hooked on all this fish talk. I hope the story is for reel!
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TrumptonBlue added 13:13 - Jun 9 Perch did, of course, score for us at PR the season before last. Good to see Keane taking steps to address our goalscoring problem. He'd be quite a catch.
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Scuzzer added 14:12 - Jun 9 For Cod's Hake can we leave the fish puns behind us now please....oh....um...
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Bluetone added 15:00 - Jun 9 Isn't he just a bit chubby?
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DrJeckyll added 15:50 - Jun 9 salmon say something sensible :-)
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1Finshefki added 16:17 - Jun 9 Some fans fall for this sort of headline hook, line and sinker. Ruddy awful.
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Racylad added 16:48 - Jun 9 have you all lost your soul? your all getting too crabby about it and by the scale of fish puns is just so shellfish and wearing fin! so stop floundering around and catch up! I have haddock with you lot!
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