Blues boss Paul Jewell says there have been developments with French midfielder Cheick Kourouma’s situation with the 20-year-old now looking set to sign the one-year deal TWTD revealed he had agreed back in June.
Town have had to obtain agreements from all his former clubs from the age of 12 onwards that they would waive FIFA compensation which is technically due to them. The final few of those were still outstanding as of this morning.
Paris-born Kourouma, who is currently sidelined with a knee injury, spent time with French sides CO Vincennes, ASBR Football, Dijon FCO and US Torcy and Sochaux, who he joined at 15, before he moved on to Spanish club Real Zaragoza and then on to Genoa, who he left last season.
Jewell said: "I feel a bit sorry for him but Simon Clegg tells me that there might be hope for him. We’ve got until 11 this evening.
"I actually said, ‘Look that’s it’, there was so much red tape, there are so many clubs coming out of the woodwork, it was getting a bit tiresome. So I said we’d have to bring it to an end. But there have been developments.”
TWTD was first to reveal the Blues' interest in the central midfielder back in May.