Cresswell Again Linked With Baggies - Ipswich Town News
West Brom are reported to have lodged their interest in Town left-back Aaron Cresswell. The Baggies, who are currently without a manager, are amongst the clubs to have watched the 24-year-old on a regular basis during 2013/14.
According to the Birmingham Mail Albion have "well and truly lodged” their interest in Cresswell, who has been linked with half the clubs in the Premier League at one time or another.
Manager Mick McCarthy, who rates Cresswell as the best left-back in the division, says he won’t stand in the player’s way if the right offer comes in during the close season.
If Cresswell, who is contracted to Town until the summer of 2017, were to move on his former club Tranmere Rovers would be entitled to 20 per cent of the profit the Blues would make on the £420,000 they paid for him after his switch to Portman Road in the summer of 2011.
A Football League tribunal set a compensation figure of an initial £240,000 plus milestone clauses, with only a £100,000 payment on promotion to the Premier League not triggered.
With Town adhering strictly to the Financial Fair Play rules, McCarthy is unlikely to have much of a transfer war chest at his disposal this summer unless a current player is sold for a significant fee.
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