Town's Carling Cup semi-final opponents Arsenal are leading the chase for Blues striker Connor Wickham, according to one of this morning’s tabloids. Other recent reports have said much the same about Tottenham and Liverpool with plenty of Premier League clubs eyeing the England U21 international.
According to this morning’s claims, £10 million-rated Wickham is unlikely to move in January — as was similarly reported a week ago - but a switch to the Gunners could be on in the summer.
At the recent AGM, chief executive Simon Clegg outlined the club’s position regarding the 17-year-old frontman: "There are no offers on the table for Connor, there is a lot of speculation, a lot of hot air out there. Roy and myself are clear that we’d like to retain him, as indeed is the owner.
"But you may get to the point in the future where the offer for the player is considerably in excess of the value that we place on him as a club and financially it would be wrong not to take that.
"If you find yourself in that situation, you would expect that money to be reinvested to replace that particular player as that would be a huge loss for the team and that hole would need to be filled.”