Town have confirmed the signing of striker Troy Parrott on loan from Tottenham Hotspur for the rest of the season, the 18-year-old Irish international having been recalled from his spell with Millwall.

News of the Blues' interest in Parrott was first broken on the TWTD Forum earlier this morning.

The frontman, who will wear the number 40 shirt, trained with the Town squad this morning having put pen to paper on the deal.

Parrott had been on loan with Millwall since August and made 10 starts and four sub appearances without scoring for the Lions, having suffered a knock early on in his spell. Spurs are understood to want the youngster to play in his preferred central striking role rather than wide, as he has done during his spell at the Den.

Dubliner Parrott started his career as a youth player with hometown club Belvedere before moving on to Spurs in July 2017.

Parrott has made one start and three sub appearances for Spurs - two games from the bench in the Premier League - in addition to appearances for the U21s in the EFL Trophy but is yet to net a senior goal.

The 6ft 1in tall frontman had made his debut for ex-Town boss Mick McCarthy’s Republic of Ireland prior to his first senior Spurs game in a friendly against ex-Blues defender Tommy Smith’s New Zealand in November 2019. He has since added another cap having previously played at U17, U19 and U21 levels.

The Blues had been keen to bring in a striker before tonight's 11pm deadline due to Oli Hawkins's knee injury, Kayden Jackson's suspension and James Norwood's troublesome hamstring.

Nottingham Forest's Will Swan had previously been linked but the 20-year-old was one of a number of players on Town's list of potential targets with Parrott the man the Blues have turned to in order to boost their striking ranks for the final months of the season.

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ghostofescobar added 14:48 - Feb 1 Welcome Troy. Word of advice: try not to get too p1ssed off, too early at the pedestrian, cumbersome, ponderous, disorganised brand of football that this manager persists with. You may only get one or two touches in the box a game, so make 'em count kiddo!!
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WhoisJimmyJuan added 14:50 - Feb 1 Blues1 hasn't had his Snickers yet.
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heathen66 added 14:51 - Feb 1 Welcome to ITFC Troy Interesting signing Spurs are understood to want the youngster to play in his preferred central striking role rather than wide, as he has done during his spell at the Den. Obviously Spurs will ensure he gets games as part of the loan contract so what does this mean for Norwood, Drinan Jackson and Hawkins as we know Lambert will only play one up top ??? So we now have 5 central strikers and only one position to play in, of which 4 of them (possibly all 5) look lost and isolated playing this formation and rarely look like scoring !!!

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ChrisFelix added 15:05 - Feb 1 Could have taken Kane on loan, but they way Lambert sets up wouldnt score. Interesting when did we last get a penalty
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WeWereZombies added 15:33 - Feb 1 Any truth in the rumour that he only turned to football when he was forced to give up cage fighting...
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grubbyoik added 15:52 - Feb 1 Why do we keep signing strikers who haven't scored any goals... surely the remit is to find a proven goal scorer.. don't goals win you matches.. or am I missing the point
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BettyBlue added 16:05 - Feb 1 What on earth are we doing?
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Essexipswichboy added 16:33 - Feb 1 Lambert out This makes no difference I'm sure this kid has a bright future but he didn't exactly set records at millwall LAMBERT OUT TONIGHT
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johnwarksshorts added 16:41 - Feb 1 Welcome to ITFC Troy.
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MonkeyAlan added 16:44 - Feb 1 18. Still a kid. Not the answer. Going backwards. Evans you muppet.
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johnwarksshorts added 16:48 - Feb 1 Welcome to ITFC Troy.
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johnwarksshorts added 16:51 - Feb 1 He's got pace, dribbling skills, good dead ball specialist and knows where the net is. Shame he'll have to play up front on his own.
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johnwarksshorts added 16:51 - Feb 1 Ffs play 442 Shambert.
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dirtydingusmagee added 17:14 - Feb 1 dont judge him before he has put a shirt on for us, he may turn out to be a good signing, at present it cant get much worse.
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Cheshire_Blue added 17:21 - Feb 1 What ever the story it is just used as a forum to have a go at the manager. And sometimes the language that is allowed to remain is poor. About time a bit more editing took place to keep the comments on the subject.
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bluesince76 added 19:14 - Feb 1 Our strikers are useless so happy to see what he can do.welcome Troy.
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Theipswich added 19:56 - Feb 1 “You can't have a team of loan players ”- Lambert on becoming manager. Why are we getting loanees in again...and what has happened to our much vaunted youngsters...all going out on loan and we get in other teams misfits. We have sunk so so low...Lambert is totally lost and we are rudderless...
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scooby added 20:24 - Feb 1 I REALLY do feel like giving up.words fail me.you can't blame any of the players coming in I wish them all good luck but seriously .we have just signed a striker who has a worse conversion rate than Cole skuse.
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RobsonWark added 22:19 - Feb 1 Another striker who can't score goals. We have plenty of them in the squad already lol. You really can't make it up!
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Razor added 10:16 - Feb 2 This is a smart piece of business and congrats to club and even manager for pulling it off. Now its its just up to him to get formation and tactics right----hold your breath on this one!!
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