Town and Brighton are reported to have made approaches to Manchester United regarding the loan of midfielder Ryan Tunnicliffe. The 20-year-old is believed to be available for loan once again having spent time at Peterborough United during 2011/12 and at Barnsley last season.

Heywood-born Tunnicliffe plays in central midfield, an area where the Blues would still appear to need cover.

An England U16 and U17 international, Tunnicliffe has made two sub appearances in the Capital One Cup for his parent club in addition to 15 senior starts and 18 games from the bench for his loan sides.

In April, Blues boss Mick McCarthy confirmed that he would utilise the loan market to augment his squad. Tunnicliffe played in United’s reserves’ 1-0 friendly victory over Club Brugge last week which was watched by the Town manager.

Meanwhile, the final 500 tickets have gone on sale for the opening game of the season away at Reading on Saturday 3rd August via the club’s new ITFC Direct website. Town's following at the Madejski Stadium is likely to number around 2,000.

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Big_Foot_Blue added 20:31 - Jul 24 Just went on and bought my tickets... Psyched for the new season! COYB!
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ChrisMakin2012 added 21:16 - Jul 24 A central midfielder? How many more do we need? Where are the wide players at?
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Mark added 21:23 - Jul 24 I'd actually be satisfied if we didn't sign a single loan player before the season starts, and just used them to cover injuries throughout the season. The right loan players with a view to permanent moves are okay, but like most fans I am fed up of developing players for other clubs, getting other clubs' players fit, or putting players in the shop window so they can move elsewhere.

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Jimmys_Law added 21:32 - Jul 24 Transfermarkt describes him as mainly a defensive midfielder and surely we have enough of those. If anything I thought we'd be targeting an attacking midfielder, rather than a defensive one to provide some support to the strikers.
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Lowestoft_Blue added 21:33 - Jul 24 Looks like chopra is on his way, he just tweeted that he has a medical today..
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lTFC added 21:48 - Jul 24 Im sure thats not his real twitter, I assume someone jumped at the chance to create it after Chopra deleted his account because the links posted on his feed seem to be trojans, virus' etc.. plus just look at the way he responds to people.. he sounds like 14 year old teen..
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No32 added 22:32 - Jul 24 No Thanks... Had enough Over rated Man Utd reserves in the past, whom were an over rated load of rubbish.... No more thanks...! We paid Reece Brown Christ knows how many thousands for about 12 mins last season.....No more on their reputational values thanks....
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syntaxerror added 23:07 - Jul 24 He is more of a box to box midfielder then in the Hyam / Skuse mould. ManU fans rate him as hard working, but maybe not quite at the level to break through: http://adeepershadeofred.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/has-real-ryan-tunnicliffe-finall More concerning, is he has an 18month ban for drink driving. Think we should let this one go to Brighton.
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syntaxerror added 00:12 - Jul 25 If we want any of the ManU youngsters on loan, it should be Adnan Januzaj. Creative, pacy attacking midfielder who can play in the centre or on the wing. Needs to toughen up before he is ready for the premiership, and a year on loan in the Championship would suit him, and he would give us a dimension we currently don't have.
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harlingblue added 00:50 - Jul 25 Please no more Man Utd under achievers, Martin, Brown. Peterborough normally get first pick anyway.
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Michael11 added 01:13 - Jul 25 I can't see the logic in this one unless the Skuse injury is worse than first thought. If not, then we already have Skuse, Hyam, Wordsworth, Tabb that play central midfield. Would like to see another proven winger and a poacher striker to sign.
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BobbyBlueLamb123 added 01:51 - Jul 25 Us or Brighton no contest he will come to us I hope we sign him to give us more players because when the season start we will no doubt get players injured so we will need them for cover Go get him Town
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ian_marshall added 07:07 - Jul 25 Is this the guy who's dad had a wager that he would make his debut for united by a certain age and got £20000 or something like that ? I know it's irrelevant but just wondering if anyone knows?
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WorcesterBlue added 08:10 - Jul 25 Maybe, just maybe MM has an ace up his sleeve? A quality attacking midfielder perhaps?
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Beattiesballbag added 10:46 - Jul 25 Looks a bit ginger to me I think we already have cover for that colour.
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rugbytomc added 16:20 - Jul 25 Thank you Chris makin! Already have hyam, skuse, tabb, Wordsworth and Lawrence to play centre mid. Need more wingers. Why do we always seem to have loads of centre mids?! Still if that's all I can complain about then mick is already one billion times better than the last two managers combined! COYBs!
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