Town and Doncaster Rovers are reported to be interested in released Rotherham defender Dominic Ball, who has spent the last two seasons on loan at Aberdeen.
Reports earlier in the week claimed free agent Ball, who is primarily a centre-half but also operates as a full-back or as a defensive midfielder, had turned down the offer of a contract by the Dons, however, according to the Press and Journal, the terms are still on the table but with the player having told manager Derek McInnes that he’d prefer to move back to England with the Blues and fellow League One side Rovers both interested.
Centre-half is an area of the squad which Town boss Paul Lambert appears certain to add to over the summer with skipper Luke Chambers and Toto Nsiala his only senior central defenders with loanee Matthew Pennington and short-term signing James Collins both having departed.
Youngsters Luke Woolfenden and Corrie Ndaba will both hope to put themselves in Lambert’s first-team thoughts in pre-season.
Ball, 23, was a youth player with local side Watford before moving on to Tottenham’s academy. While at Spurs he spent time on loan at Cambridge United and Rangers before joining Rotherham on a permanent basis in August 2016.
The 6ft-tall Welwyn Garden City-born defender was a Miller for three years but made only 14 starts and one sub appearance for them, spending all but five months of that time out on loan at Peterborough and then Aberdeen, for whom he made 31 starts and nine sub appearances last season.
Ball was capped by Northern Ireland at U15, U16, U17, U19 and U21 levels and by England’s U19s and U20s.