Town boss Mick McCarthy has confirmed that Polish defender Piotr Malarczyk is joining the Blues from Korona Kielce and says he could do one more deal before Tuesday's deadline.
"He is about to join us, he’ll be joining us from tomorrow,” he said. "He’s a right-sided defender who can play right-back or centre-back.
"A good competitor, he really wants to defend, like all my defenders, to be fair, Josh Yorwerth, Josh Emmanuel and Myles Kenlock included, and, of course, the first-teamers that are here.
"He’s captain of the team, he looks a real good character to me, so I'm delighted to have got him.”
The deal will be completed too late for Malarczyk to be involved against Brighton tomorrow.
The Blues boss outlined how the deal came about: "I get sent emails and text messages and all sorts from all ports of call, agents and everything.
"I look at them all, I check them all out and some have been fruitful. Hundreds of thousands haven’t that we’ve not done.
"Kevin Bru walked in the door, that worked out really well. We took Kevin Bru’s mate in Larsen Toure, you could see what I saw him instantly in Tuesday’s performance.
"Likewise, this was through an agent who I know, I’ve known him for years in Ireland. I just checked out.
"We looked it up on our scouting system, I liked what I saw and I sent Mark Kennedy out to watch him play live and he backed all the things [we saw on there].
"You can put together a YouTube clip together of everyone’s best bits but he saw it first hand, do I’m really pleased to have got him.”
He says one more deal might get done before the transfer window closes at 6pm on Tuesday: "Maybe, we’ve got one more that we might be doing.”
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