TWTD understands that Town are willing to allow Jason Scotland to move on loan to his former club Swansea. The Swans’ interest in the 31-year-old, who was at the Liberty Stadium between 2007 and 2009, first surfaced last month with manager Brendan Rodgers subsequently confirming that he could move for the Trinidad and Tobago international.
Scotland, who is yet to start a game since the change of manager at Portman Road, is understood to have met with new boss Paul Jewell and been told that Town will not stand in his way if he wants to rejoin the Swans.
Swansea are unlikely to be in a position to pay Scotland’s entire Town wage and as with previous loan deals — Lee Martin’s spell at Charlton, for example — the Welshmen will probably pay only a significant proportion of his salary. If the clubs are able to negotiate a deal, a loan could be a precursor to a permanent switch in the summer.
Scotland, a £750,000 signing from Wigan in the summer, has made 22 starts and seven sub appearances for Town, scoring seven goals, all at Portman Road.
Town’s willingness to allow the Trinidadian to leave would suggest that manager Paul Jewell has a striking target in mind, having narrowly failed to land Swindon’s Charlie Austin during the transfer window, the 21-year-old eventually joining Burnley.
If Scotland, who is also believed to be interesting three other Championship sides, were to move on, the Blues’ only out-and-out strikers would be Tamás Priskin, Connor Wickham and youngster Ronan Murray, although Lee Martin and Jaime Peters have both played as a second striker in the past.
Aside from Austin, the only other striker mentioned in connection with Town since Jewell took over at Portman Road was Peterborough’s Craig Mackail-Smith, who the new Blues boss watched in action shortly after taking over as manager.
However, Jewell subsequently insisted that he watched that game with no specific targets in mind.