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Town Confirm Ward Signing Monday, 1st Aug 2016 13:33
Town have confirmed the signing of midfielder Grant Ward from Tottenham on a three-year deal with an option for a further season. TWTD was first to reveal that the Blues were set to sign the 21-year-old winger or central midfielder for a fee understood to be £500,000.
Lewisham-born Ward joined the Spurs academy - where he is likely to have worked with Town academy director Bryan Klug - as a 10-year-old but never made a senior appearance for the Premier League club, aside from during the May 2015 tour of Malaysia and Australia.
He spent time on loan with the Chicago Fire under ex-Blue Frank Yallop in 2014 and at Coventry City a year later.
Last season he made 35 starts and eight sub appearances while on loan with Rotherham in the Championship, scoring twice, one of which, a superb strike against Burnley, won the Millers' Goal of the Season gong. He also picked up their Young Player of the Year award.
Ward, who will train with his new team-mates today, is the Blues' third signing of the summer after Adam Webster and Paul Digby.
The fee is the second highest the club has paid out since Mick McCarthy took over as manager behind the £700,000 plus defender Matt Clarke handed over to secure Webster from Portsmouth in July.
Ward may not be fit enough to start on Saturday having returned to action last week after three weeks out injured.
Not been the best start to the season being out for 3 weeks but happy to be back and ready to go!! ðŸ™âš½ï¸– Grant Ward (@GrantWard_) July 28, 2016
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Very encouraging signing. Shows money obviously is available for the right player at the right price. Sign up Lamah as well and the wings no longer look so bare!
Also - been having a dig round twitter, and Rotherhams fans are having kittens that we've signed him for this price. He was very highly rated there, and the vast moajrity say anything between £500,000-£700,000 is a steal.
Anybody that thinks this is a bad signing might as well not come to PR this season... young hungry talented kid from arguably the best academy in the country right now! Rotherham fans absolutely distraught about - key player in their turn around last season!
This is good news,another young lad to add to the squad.Things are looking up now and can only get better.Lets hope this signing will now allow Sears to play up front in his best position.With luck,one more wide player and maybe cover up front and that should put us in a healthy position for the coming season.
Surely in this day and age500,000 for a 21 year old who played a lot of games in the c/ship last year is a steal and arguably is exactly what we want young hopefully hungry winger how long have we longed for this,plus possibly a freeby with experiance what the --- are you moaning about,sorry its not the tax dadging Messi mind you you,d moan then would,nt you
This looks like a very promising signing, I'm not going to claim I know too much about him though, obviously there is no need to be negative about this story it's positive, but there is also no need to go over board as if this lad is our saviour. Hoping he's a big improvement on our current options on the wing though!
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