Crystal Palace’s Wales international centre-half Danny Gabbidon is the latest defender the Blues and several other clubs are reported to be keeping tabs on.

According to Sky Sports, Town, Norwich, Bolton, Leicester and Blackburn are all “monitoring” the 34-year-old’s situation with his contract up at the end of the season and no talks regarding new terms currently underway.

Cwmbran-born Gabbidon, who is 6ft 1in tall, started his career with West Brom prior to spells with Cardiff, West Ham and QPR, before joining the Eagles in September 2012, having been offered a contract by Town earlier that summer.

This season the 47-times-capped defender has been a regular in Palace’s side following their promotion to the Premier League. A drop into the Championship during January seems highly unlikely, although a move away from Selhurst Park may be on the cards in the summer.

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rambohambo added 12:24 - Jan 21 Heard he has brilliant vision and scores from midfield all the time ......
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Tractamatt added 12:58 - Jan 21 To old would just be another 'experienced' player looking for a paycheck in the last years of his career. We have been there and it didn't work.
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yorksblue added 13:19 - Jan 21 Donkey
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iamipswich added 14:03 - Jan 21 ABSOLUTELY NOT
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Facefacts added 14:10 - Jan 21 Reasons he won't join the Town - FFP, and he's no better than our existing central defenders. He would need to be a legend of the quality of Tony Mowbray (when he joined Town) to make it worth breaking the bank for him.
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PYBlue added 14:15 - Jan 21 Can we be linked to anyone young and good!
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Cloddyseedbed added 14:33 - Jan 21 NO. No more players at the end of their career please.
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Lightningboy added 14:56 - Jan 21 Not understanding this link sorry. We have 3 central defenders. It's a goal scoring/creative midfielder that's the priority.
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Lightningboy added 14:57 - Jan 21 ^^^ How's about bringing Garvan back?
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theobald1985 added 15:08 - Jan 21 would love to see garvan back but dont think he is micks cup of tea- i dont think MM sees the midfield as a priority as he has no intention of playing through it
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battyblue added 15:40 - Jan 21 MM loves hoof ball so anyone who can give it a good punt up the other end will do just fine
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nitroblue1970 added 15:46 - Jan 21 in that case battyblue maybe we should resign delaney!
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cornishnick added 16:15 - Jan 21 "Clubs monitoring Gabbidon claim" Why? What's he said?
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calypso_blue added 16:33 - Jan 21 pay palace £1m for Delaney and send all the U21's on loan. sign some more defenders over 30 and play the game at walking pace so our forwards don't look out of place.
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multiplescoregasms added 17:19 - Jan 21 But he is 34!!!!!!! I would rather see us play younger players who want to improve themselves and progress their careers. If they are looking for a 34 year old who is past his best, I will give Mick my mobile number. COYB
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NoelTheDub added 17:23 - Jan 21 More defenders linked any more in here and you might not see our goal.Good tactics MM ,also i might add thoses guys are old and injury prone just the type we get in here other teams garbage and let our good ones out .I rest my case on this issue Mick..
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Jimmy86 added 19:18 - Jan 21 Nitroblue makes me laugh really coz a lot of people on here always slated delaney and called him a donkey etc, he then went and joined palace and got promoted and is playing regularly on the premiership. Same as Mcauley too. Just goes to show that either they had a bad spell in their career whilst playing for us, or that they maybe werent quite as bad as we all thought they were!!! saw on match of the day it was delaney who made a defence splitting pass for Palace's penalty at spurs, the penalty was possibly the worst pen ive seen in my life though, but that a different matter

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runningout added 19:34 - Jan 21 Macauley was and still a good defender.. Delaney not so! 'being looked after at Palace' as for Gabbidon and Garvan Noooooooooooo!!
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Taricco_Fan added 20:03 - Jan 21 Nope.
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wayway added 20:54 - Jan 21 Three reasons why we wont be resigning Garvan, 1, There is no money available because we have an owner who is not interested. 2, He would not fit into the current team because he likes to play football and not run about like a headless chicken. 3, He does not suit Boring billy (MM) because he has a brain.
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dubblue added 21:12 - Jan 21 funny was thinking of picking Gabbidon for my fantasy football team! Seriously I think he is too old we should be looking to the future. Speaking of fantasy football I see Garvan has played 93 mins of first team football so far this season, go figure out....
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ChrisMakin2012 added 22:08 - Jan 21 Buying hoof defenders is Micks priority so even though we need midfield players like a hole in the head this is as good as it gets for Ipswich fans.
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MacMan added 05:02 - Jan 22 Keep some perspective, it's Sky sports and they mention premiership teams looking at him too. We can be linked with everyone from Van Persie to Maradona, but we all know (don't we????) that when news is quiet it's easy to link teams with anyone who can still bend down and tie their boot laces. It doesn't mean that they are all coming here, and one thing about Mick is that if he is interested in players he doesn't advertise the fact to the press.

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