Chopra Deal Close to Completion - Ipswich Town News
The completion of striker Michael Chopra’s move to Blackpool now appears to be a formality with the 29-year-old reported to have put pen to paper on a two-year contract at Bloomfield Road yesterday.
The deal is set to be rubber-stamped once the Seasiders have assessed the results of the medical Chopra revealed he had undergone yesterday.
Town are likely to have agreed a settlement of the final year of the frontman’s contract at Portman Road, believed to be worth £18,000-a-week, with the Tangerines unlikely to be paying anything like that figure.
Chopra is said to be back in Suffolk today but will join up with his new team-mates tomorrow and is likely to make his first appearance at Bloomfield Road in a friendly against his hometown club Newcastle United, where he started his career, on Sunday.
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