Town have confirmed the loan signing of Aston Villa right-back James Bree for the remainder of the season.

News that Town were targeting the former Barnsley man broke earlier this afternoon with manager Paul Lambert remaining tight-lipped at his press conference when quizzed about the Wakefield-born defender. TWTD subsequently revealed that he was at Portman Road.

Bree, who wil wear the Town number 41 shirt, has made only eight Championship appearances for Villa this season having joined them from the Tykes in January 2017. He is contracted until the summer of 2021.

Bree’s recruitment could see on-loan Everton defender Matthew Pennington leave the Blues to join Derby on loan for the second half of the season with a view to the move being turned into a permanent switch in the summer.

Meanwhile, ex-Blues left-back Tyrone Mings has joined Villa on loan for the rest of the season from AFC Bournemouth.

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monty_radio added 19:51 - Jan 31 Looking at his picture, are we sure that we haven't signed Jordan Spieth by mistake?
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TimmyH added 19:52 - Jan 31 Never heard of him...but we are desperate in that position, all the best James!
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stiffy501 added 21:24 - Jan 31 Welcome James, but the main problem is creativity or complete lack of it in midfield, has been for age's Chalobah, Skuce and Downes not the answer !!
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runningout added 22:20 - Jan 31 Spot on Stiffy.. that sounds a bit dodgy. Maybe correct Stiffy
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Pedlarjak added 23:24 - Jan 31 Even if we are going down we don't want total demoralising figures -for the season end
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Kirbmeister added 08:37 - Feb 1 We're not going to be signing permanent players in our predicament. At the end of he season there'll be a massive clear out of out of contract and loan players and another huge rebuild job. It's goung to be a few years before we hopefully get to being a decent competitive side again.
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carsey added 08:39 - Feb 1 Emmanuel
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Nobbysnuts added 09:08 - Feb 1 Another pointless loan signing. Yawn yawn yawn. Wake me up in August. 😴
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TractorClarke added 09:31 - Feb 1 Hopefully this means that chambers is dropped and we play pennington and collins in the middle with bree on the right, i think emmanuel will be the backup to him and spence will hopefully fall to the background and will be shipped at the end of the season. I know people keep saying what about emmanuel and i get that, but it does seem odd that each itfc manager he is under doesnt give him that chance or make him first choice, there must be something in that, whether lazy attitude or something i dont know. Either way would deff say better than spence and should be in the mix.

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clint_eastwood added 09:33 - Feb 1 So, if he's playing right-back, who's playing centre-back with Chambo? Pennington or Collins?
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