Town are set to offer Watford £800,000 for striker Marvin Sordell, according to a report this morning. Yesterday, Blues boss Paul Jewell revealed that he had made bids for a striker and a winger.

Sordell, 20, was an academy schoolboy with Fulham before moving on to Watford’s youth set-up. Having spent time on loan at Wealdstone and Tranmere, the 5ft 10in tall frontman broke through into the Hornets senior side in 2009/10.

But it was last season when the England U20s cap really started to make his mark in the Championship, scoring 15 goals in 29 starts and 18 sub appearances.

Town fans will remember the Brent-born frontman for scoring Watford’s second goal in the Blues’ 2-1 defeat at Vicarage Road last season and also for netting a hat-trick in an FA Youth Cup victory over Town at Portman Road in March 2009.

Elsewhere, the Blues are reported to have made an increased offer to Doncaster for midfielder James Coppinger, the subject of at least one previous bid earlier in the summer.

Paul Jewell recently said that he could make renewed attempts sign the 30-year-old having failed with an initial £300,000 offer early in the summer when he also tried to land Rovers striker Billy Sharp.

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marcusevans added 08:44 - Jul 12 At 5'10 I too can't see this happening. Nathan Ellington is also 5'10 and Chops (5'9) isn't a target man either. Someone else to come in I'd say. What about the old Matt Derbyshire story? Could it be him? 6'1 tall.
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SouperJim added 08:48 - Jul 12 Just a word of caution, the price quoted seems very very cheap and I believe this link has come from the daily express...
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terry_butchers_twin added 08:58 - Jul 12 Agree with SouperJim. Watford have already sold Graham for a decent sum and will want far more than £800k for Sordell. The only hope would be £800k plus Priskin/Scotland. New manager at Watford may like the look of Priskin as part of a deal.
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robdaful added 09:00 - Jul 12 Would be good, hopefully. Can't remember seeing him play. Think I was too busy looking at Graham scoring against us :(
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kozmik added 09:02 - Jul 12 yep, thats the only way we can beat Watford - sign all their players!
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Marshalls_Mullet added 09:12 - Jul 12 Link is from The Sun. I imagine their accuracy is very hit and miss.
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Royalblue added 09:14 - Jul 12 Phil are you an insomniac? 6.27am this story went up! Appreciate it though!
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notoriousITFC added 09:14 - Jul 12 We won't need a big man next year because we'll be playing Barcelona-esc football. Bowyer and Leadbitter are the new Xavi and Iniesta.... Who's with me????
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alsagerblue added 09:15 - Jul 12 Saw that Youth cup tie; Marvin played better than Connor that day.
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Back_The_Boss added 09:22 - Jul 12 Would like to see him sign, he would be a great addition.
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MattR added 09:30 - Jul 12 £800,000. Hilarious. On that basis, me and my mates would like to offer £2.50 and a packet of smarties for your entire squad...
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ITFC1812 added 09:30 - Jul 12 Watford extended his contract last year to 2013 knowing other clubs would be looking at him, no way will they sell for 800,000.
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East_of_England added 09:30 - Jul 12 Watford will not sell for £800K in a million years. Get real. Liverpool showed serious interest in him and Adam Barton in January for a combined fee of £8M.
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oldbri added 09:34 - Jul 12 Just checked wikipedia,cant see any mention of ipswich,he is down as a watford player.?.
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BwoodBlue added 09:37 - Jul 12 Had a cracking start to last season - a very good young prospect. Watford are not a club in a position to turn down decent offers either
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toforoge added 09:39 - Jul 12 Star,Express ,Sun and on WIKI (DETAILS ON RIGHT OF PAGE). All i need now is comfimation by News of the World to be sure.
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toforoge added 09:46 - Jul 12 Strange back to watford on wiki and no confirmaton by notw. dam.
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the_toff added 09:54 - Jul 12 Young, very quick (desperately need pace in out side), an eye for goal and at £800k could prove to be a fantastic buy if PJ can pull it off. As previous comments have suggested though this will spell the end of Jason Scotland, perhaps out on loan. Priskin, Ellington, Sordell and Chopra sound like a good pool of strikers for me. I would like to see another midfielder (Coppinger would be great) and a CB/RB to offer cover to Ivor, Smith and Delaney (Eastman would have been the better and cheaper option. A 6 month deal for him was a joke). Come on PJ keep working hard, doing a great job! COYB

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notoriousITFC added 10:03 - Jul 12 I would be happy to pay double the 800k for this guy. He is exactly the sort of player we have been missing in recent years - genuine pace and skill.
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NW10_Tractor added 10:06 - Jul 12 Marvin is a player with a good brain for football. I saw him play for Brent Schools a few times and he is RAPID! Eating Centre backs and murdering wingbacks with his pace - just a little too shot happy but if if you don't shoot you don't score.! Would be a very good investment...
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Lightningboy added 10:28 - Jul 12 £800k?!!...no chance..watford know we've got money,they'll probably want more like around £2-3M.
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theblueginger added 10:28 - Jul 12 Not the biggest, but has Ballistic pace. I think he will be ours for about a million. As for coppinger, IMO we only should get him if Sharp comes as well, which is unfortunately unlikely, so move on. Better bring in a RB so Edwards doesn't play there every week.
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notoriousITFC added 10:30 - Jul 12 another thing to bear in mind is that Watford barely have a striker on their books at the moment. They pretty much only have Sordell and Deeney who are both very young. I think they will be looking for strikers rather than selling them.
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im_marcacus added 10:31 - Jul 12 This sounds a whole lot too good to be true. Would be interested to see where this 'report' stem from... Oh wait, here it is: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3689399/Ipswich-chasing-8000 An entire 3 lines of 'journalism' on the Sun website. Stand down Superblues.
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essexblues added 10:32 - Jul 12 he's a great prospect but I still think we need a tall physical striker espically in the championship and it would give us another attacking option upfront.
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