Town left-back Aaron Cresswell is reportedly undergoing a medical at West Ham United.
Rumours that Cresswell had missed training at Playford Road and was having a medical with the Hammers surfaced online early this afternoon and then was subsequently reported by Sky Sports.
West Ham were amongst the clubs keeping tabs on 24-year-old Cresswell throughout the 2013/14 campaign and were linked with a possible move by their local press yesterday.
The Hammers are understood to have turned to Cresswell, having had an offer for Norwich's Martin Olsson turned down.
Speaking on Monday, manager Mick McCarthy confirmed that he wouldn’t stand in the way of Cresswell if an offer came in from a Premier League side: "I said last season, and my stance hasn’t changed, Cressy got all the plaudits for being the best left-back in the league and if at some stage somebody comes in and the deal’s right, it becomes untenable because [in those circumstances] the player wants to go. It’s not that we want to sell him but I might be able to reinvest if that’s the case.
"I don’t want to sell him but he himself is really ambitious and if the right deal comes along, who knows, it may have to happen.
"And if it does, I’ll shake his hand, thank him for all that he’s done and I’ll crack on and get somebody else. That’s the way it happens.”
Cresswell's former club Tranmere Rovers are entitled to 20 per cent of the profit the Blues would make on the £420,000 they paid for him following his summer 2011 switch to Portman Road.
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.
Cresswell, named in the Championship Team of Year for 2013/14, has made 138 appearances for Town, all starts, scoring seven goals.
Coincidentally, West Ham are at Portman Road for a pre-season friendly on Wednesday 16th July (KO 7.45pm).