Former Town boss Jim Magilton is being linked with the vacant manager’s job at Swansea. Paulo Sousa resigned from the role yesterday and is set to join Leicester City.
Magilton, who has been out of work since leaving QPR in December, reportedly faces competition from Exeter manager Paul Tidsdale, Wigan assistant boss Graeme Jones, Wrexham’s Dean Saunders, Brighton’s Gus Poyet and Sheffield United coach Gary Speed.
Meanwhile, ex-Town frontman Dean McDonald is spending the week on trial with the Swans. McDonald, 24, scored 35 goals in 53 starts and three sub appearances for Farnborough last season as they carried off the Zamaretto Premier League title.
Since leaving the Blues in 2006 the former Arsenal trainee has played for Gillingham, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Rushden and Diamonds, Grays Athletic, Northwich Victoria and Tooting and Mitcham United, joining his current side last summer.
And in further Welsh football news, Cardiff City have been hit by a transfer embargo due to their ongoing struggle to pay their tax bills. HMRC has lodged another winding-up order against the club, this time relating to a £1.3 million PAYE debt, with the Bluebirds due in the High Court on 11th August. The club claim they will pay by the end of the week.
Cardiff's continuing problems are likely to be of interest to the Blues with striker Michael Chopra understood to be top of Roy Keane's summer wish-list.
Elsewhere, reported Town target Stephen McManus is said to be close to completing a £1.8 million move to his former loan club Middlesbrough. The Celtic defender was mentioned in connection with the Blues earlier in the summer, having turned down the chance to join Town on loan a year ago.