Town have completed the signing of Huddersfield forward Collin Quaner on loan until the end of the season.

"I'm looking forward to my time here and I'm excited," Quaner, 27, told iFollow Ipswich.

"This time of the season is always busy in football but it's been a really busy couple of days for me and I'm glad the move is finalised and I can fully focus now.

"I will do my absolute best for the club and given the situation I think this is an opportunity for us as a team to do something great. I've never played at Portman Road before and I can't wait to get going."

Düsseldorf-born Quaner was with his local club Fortuna - more than 60 of whose fans could see him given his Town debut on Saturday as they make their annual pilgrimage to Portman Road - as a youngster but only ever featured for their second team before moving on to Arminia Bielefeld, FC Ingolstadt, Hansa Rostock (loan), VfR Aalen and then Union Berlin.

The 6ft 3in forward, who plays down the centre or, as has usually been the case with the Terriers, out wide on the right, moved to Huddersfield in January 2017, signing a three-and-a-half-year deal and featured throughout the rest of that season - 12 starts, 10 sub appearances - as the Terriers won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs, adding three goals to the nine he had scored for Union in the first half of the campaign.

Last season Quaner, who will wear the number 45 shirt while with Town, made 13 starts and 13 sub appearances in the Premier League, in addition to five cup starts, without scoring.

During 2018/19, Quaner has made only two sub appearances, both in the Premier League.

Outlining the reasons why Quaner was allowed to join the Blues, Terriers head coach David Wagner told their official site: “Collin would not feature for us regularly during the rest of the current season, so I’m happy that we can get him out on loan to play games at a good level in the Sky Bet Championship.

“He is a fantastic character and deserves this chance; I wish him the best of luck during his time at Ipswich.”

Meanwhile, we understand Town’s move for Cardiff City’s Republic of Ireland winger Anthony Pilkington remains ongoing.

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blueboy1981 added 23:20 - Jan 8 ITFCsince73 ..... totally understand where you are coming from in your views / opinions - however, realism has to come into it. What / Who do you think we are in a position to attract who is currently doing the business elsewhere ? - realism tells me we're in the bargain basement in terms of being attractive to players that we would all prefer to be able to sign. Idealism is one thing - realism something different.

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townlad88 added 23:39 - Jan 8 Ok itfcsince73 but be totally honest here who do you really expect us to sign as said by comments above who is going to come to our club bottom of the championship! The only people that we are gonna sign is as stated by Paul lambert are people who want to be here! Do you not think he's tried to bring bigger names in!! The only players that we are going to get in are players that are hardly playing if at all at their parent clubs and that I would like to think want to come here and prove a point! Which could then fingers crossed benefit us!! It is disappointing and I think every Ipswich town fan is gutted but we need to get behind these lads coming in aswel as the players already here!!! We're in a bad place right now as everyone well knows but it isn't over until we are mathematically 100% down!!!

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algarvefan added 23:43 - Jan 8 Good luck lad, we need goals badly, perhaps this is our man?
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 06:48 - Jan 9 I have a hunch Quaner will be a bit Jet-like. He'll make some glaring blunders sometimes, but on other occasions, he'll come up with a bit of magic. I'm hoping this is a good signing and that the positives outweigh the negatives. I'm optimistic they will.
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leftie1972 added 09:00 - Jan 9 Welcome Collin.
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rozeeboy added 09:34 - Jan 9 I read an article that we were signing a forward from "free-scoring Huddersfield". I guess they meant to write "free-scoring compared to Ipswich Town.." But even that isn't true.
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planetblue_2011 added 10:21 - Jan 9 Welcome to ITFC Collin👍🏻 hope you can help us out of this mess by scoring some goals.
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howdonblue added 10:34 - Jan 9 Welcome to Ipswich town ! Whatever people are saying this fella looks an athletic type which may be something totally different. Good luck Collin
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rugbytomc added 10:53 - Jan 9 Happy to add more experienced bodies and players of a style and stature we don't currently have. However, I will tear my hair out if we don't sign a RIGHT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DebsyAngel added 18:58 - Jan 9 Good luck Collin - looks like he has a bit of power so hoping he could be what we need.
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