Town are closing in on the loan signing of Bristol City midfielder Tyreeq Bakinson.

Football Insider reported earlier today that the Robins have given the go-ahead for Bakinson to go out on loan and TWTD can confirm that Town are indeed close to landing the 23-year-old until the end of the season.

London-born Bakinson came through the youth ranks at Luton before joining the City - where Town CEO Mark Ashton was then in charge - in October 2017 having made four senior starts and two sub appearances for the Hatters.

Since then the defensively-minded central midfielder has made 33 starts and 20 sub appearances, scoring five times, while also spending spells out on loan at Newport County in 2018/19 and Plymouth Argyle in the second half of the following campaign.

Contracted to his current club until the summer of 2023, the Robins having activated an additional one-year option in his contract late last year, Bakinson has been on the fringes at Ashton Gate recently with his sub appearance in the 6-2 defeat at Fulham on Saturday his first since December 4th.

It's understood the Robins would be prepared to allow him to depart on a full-time basis in the summer.

If the deal is confirmed, as it is looks set to be, then Bakinson will become Town’s fourth current loan player - alongside Bersant Celina from Dijon, Macauley Bonne from QPR and Hayden Coulson from Middlesbrough - with Christian Walton having signed on a permanent basis and Louie Barry returning to Aston Villa earlier in the month.

It's likely the move will be done in time for Bakinson to potentially make his debut in Saturday's home game against Accrington Stanley.

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brendenward35 added 15:20 - Jan 20 Doesn't make good reading unless McKenna can keep him interested https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town/pearson-on-bakinson-ipswich-move-86349
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Steelmonkey added 15:47 - Jan 20 I quote from an interview with Nigel Pearson:- I'm not bothered. He's a player who unfortunately just wants to play on his own terms. It's not something I particularly want so he can go,” Pearson told BristolLive. “I'm not wasting energy on negativity, I don't invest time on that, I'm not just saying it. If you ask people who work with me they'll say exactly the same thing, I don't waste energy on negativity, it drives me mad. “If people aren't in the side, I want them to work hard to get there and I want people who are in the side to work hard to stay there. I don't want people that when the going gets tough, they want to go somewhere else, I'm not interested. “The fact that I am prepared to say, ‘yeah, let the deal go ahead' because actually, people around the place who sap the energy out of other people is not as valuable as having people here who want to be playing.” Has Pearson got the attitude towards him as Cook had with Downs? Well if he's on a loan and doesn't fit in then we won't keep after the seasons finished surely.

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Fat_Boy_Tim added 15:49 - Jan 20 Maybe we should calm down a bit, all the comment smack a bit of: Aluko? 32 years old, he's not the future! Or Look how far we've fallen signing Burns from Fleetwood! Or Who is this invisible Edmundson? Or Why on earth do we need a loan goalkeeper!! Just wait until he plays or the window closes to see what the he/squad looks like.
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