Town’s third-choice keeper Michael Crowe is on trial with League Two Portsmouth at their Irish training camp in Co Meath. The 20-year-old put pen to paper on a new one-year Blues contract with an option for a further season on July 1st.
Last week manager Mick McCarthy said that the Wales U21 call-up (pictured above, left with U21s skipper Joe Robinson) could be sent out on loan to gain experience during 2016/17, in which case he might look for another keeper as cover for senior duo Bartosz Bialkowski and Dean Gerken.
"There was a bit of interest and if he’s going to play in somebody else’s first team then I’d let him go out on loan and I might have to sign somebody else just in case,” he said.
"We have got Jacob Marsden as well. They’ll only be looking at the bench though as the two lads we’ve got are excellent.”
Pompey, who took Town defender Matt Clarke on loan last season before signing him on a permanent basis in the deal which saw Adam Webster join the Blues earlier this summer, are also running the rule over Leeds keeper Eric Grimes while they are in Ireland.
Crowe, who has been on the first-team bench for Town on a number of occasions but so far without making his Blues debut, has previously spent time on loan at Woking, Stevenage and Braintree Town.
London-born Crowe, whose father is English and mother Norwegian, joined the Blues in the summer of 2012 from Kristiansand-based side IK Start, having been brought up in Norway.
He qualifies for Wales, with whom he won five U19s caps but is yet to feature for the U21s, through his grandmother.
Like Town, Portsmouth will be playing a friendly in Dublin on Saturday afternoon. While the Blues face Shelbourne at Tolka Park, the Hampshire club take on Bohemians at Dalymount Park (both 3pm KOs).