Arsenal continue to be linked with an ÂŁ8 million January move for Town left-back Tyrone Mings.
Today's Daily Telegraph reports the Gunners are ready to make the offer, while stories at the weekend claimed a bid was dependent on the North Londoners failing to land Borussia Dortmund's Mats Hummels.
The Blues - who have no immediate plans to make January sales - are understood to value the 21-year-old at more than ÂŁ10 million.
Mings, who was amongst those at last night's Terry Butcher Legends on the Town event at the Dove Street Tavern, has regularly been watched by a host of Premier League clubs this season. The full-back is contracted until the summer of 2017.
Elsewhere, Town winger Stephen Hunt is currently embroiled in a lively exchange of views with former Gaelic footballer and pundit Joe Brolly in the Irish media.
Brolly, 45, recently said soccer players weren’t role models, a claim which Hunt responded to in his Sunday Independent column.
The 33-year-old said he believed Gaelic footballers and hurlers would find professional association football tough: "As somebody who grew up in the GAA, I can tell you that, as much as I love the games, if GAA players tried to live with the level of commitment shown by a professional footballer, they wouldn't know what hit them.”
Now Brolly has hit back saying he wouldn’t "imagine Stephen would have lasted five minutes in the Ulster club final last Sunday”. Adding: "Thank f*** I'm a GAA man."