Town Make Renewed Move for St Ledger
Wednesday, 8th Jun 2011 22:28

Town are reported to have made a new bid for Preston North End centre-half Sean St Ledger. The Blues had an £1.5 million offer for the Republic of Ireland international turned down by the now-relegated Lilywhites in January.

Then, Town boss Paul Jewell was disappointed that Preston chairman Maurice Lindsay made the offer public.

The Blues manager knows Lindsay well from their time as Wigan Athletic manager and Wigan Warriors rugby league club chairman respectively, Jewell revealing that the £2.5 million Town had been quoted by the Lilywhites was £1 million more than Lindsay had told him they were targeting when he had spoken to him a few months before he knew he was taking over at Portman Road.

It’s little surprise that the Blues have made a renewed move for St Ledger with Gareth McAuley having joined West Brom on a Bosman earlier this summer. Sunderland’s Nyron Nosworthy is another centre-half who has been interesting Jewell, while released Reading veteran Ivar Ingimarsson was also linked earlier in the week.

St Ledger, 26, came through the youth system at Peterborough United during which time he went on loan to Stevenage Borough.

After making the breakthrough at Posh, the Birmingham-born defender joined Preston in July 2006 for a fee of £225,000.

Having impressed at Deepdale, St Ledger joined Middlesbrough on loan at the start of 2009/10. The short-term spell was expected to turn into a £4 million permanent switch but the 5ft 11in tall defender failed to settle in the North-East and returned to Preston.

Capped 19 times at full level, having scored two goals, St Ledger has another year remaining on his Preston contract but seems certain to leave Deepdale this summer after their drop into League One.

St Ledger, who is also believed to be interesting other Championship clubs, and Preston team-mate and fellow Blues target Keith Treacy have now returned from international duty with Ireland, both featuring in yesterday’s 2-0 victory over Italy.

A move for left winger Treacy was previously reported to be on the cards on his return, while we understand that the Blues are expecting news of Cardiff’s response to their recent £1 million offer for striker Michael Chopra in the next few days with increasing speculation that the bid is likely to be successful.

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copamundial added 22:37 - Jun 8 Yes please
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streety86 added 22:39 - Jun 8 Don't let this one slip!!!
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dazz added 22:41 - Jun 8 Please please please please
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bedsitfc added 22:41 - Jun 8 great if we could get them 2 preston lads in, but not sure about chops i would rather nugent, sharpe, cox or chad evans.
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Hungry_Badger added 22:43 - Jun 8 Its on Sky Sports so it might actually be true :)
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Kropotkin123 added 22:44 - Jun 8 http://www.twtd.co.uk/news.php?storyid=18490&p=4#comm That's right... I beat phil to it! :)
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Tractorog added 22:48 - Jun 8 Quality.
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ozzy_itfc added 22:50 - Jun 8 Great news fantastic replacement for g mac only concern i have is his lack of height xome on clegg sort.this one out!! sol cambell as back up now hes been released? haha
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suffolkpoker added 23:04 - Jun 8 oh yes.. just what we need!
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Mr_Evans added 23:09 - Jun 8 I hope this story is true! St Ledger had a cracking game against Italy this week! I'd be very happy for town to get in St Ledger, Treacy, Chopra, Ignimarsson and Nosworthy. 5 good championship players that would cost us less that £3.5m IMO. Get Nugent or Cox in and a couple of young lower league guys in and i'll be very happy with that!!!
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Kuqicoo added 23:11 - Jun 8 Great stuff! :)
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bluey360 added 23:12 - Jun 8 He would be a excellent buy, strong, good in the air & with being young than McAuley bait of pace at the back which we do need especially at home. Let's hope we can get him & Tracey
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Barhamblue added 23:34 - Jun 8 Yes please patience people.
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broomfield123 added 23:35 - Jun 8 You could boost your ratings if you get st ledger mr clegg and loss the title clegg the pleb . PS mr clegg as you were involved with the olympics did you sort out the tickets aswell . Just seems strange that the two sports events or club you've been involved with have been a mockery
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Garv added 23:44 - Jun 8 £2.5m bit steep for a defender. The way its going though I spose. Jones to united for 15, what a joke. Only worry about St Ledger is his height, McAuley's height was everything.
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GTRKing added 23:47 - Jun 8 Yess Please They will do us good but tall players please. We will wait & see
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robdaful added 00:11 - Jun 9 yeah please. More signings also. O no I'm being greedy now :P
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natphonics added 00:25 - Jun 9

Yes please, when i was back in the UK to see the family i manged to catch the Preston at home game, He looked pretty good but I was also impressed with Billy Jones as a holding Midfield player and can also slot in at right back. I think him and a few of the players available on a free now would be great additions to the squad especially Nugent and I think Sol Campbell on a player coach position would be good experience for cover and would also be great for our young defenders such as Tommy Smith.

churchmans added 00:55 - Jun 9 st ledger and chopra!! that would be a great start with these two signings! no complaints here better than what we had did not have last season
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Garv added 00:55 - Jun 9 Billy Jones has gone to west brom.
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bobble added 01:21 - Jun 9 a pair off platforms and this bloke would do in the back what we really need though is a tiny striker up forward this is great idea getting all the small players in' it must be saving the club a fortune in strip material 'washing powder and tumble drying why didn't we think of this years ago
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Ridgeboy83 added 05:49 - Jun 9 Not to be negative but heard that Wolves are in for St Ledger too? Anyone else heard this?
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DiamondGezzer added 06:22 - Jun 9 Could have our first new signing by the week-end ! I'd sooner PJ takes his time and gets the right players. The names being banded around sound great, lets hope they turn into reality.
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