Town have completed the signing of Bristol City midfielder Tyreeq Bakinson on loan for the rest of the season with the Blues having the option to make the move permanent in the summer.

The 23-year-old, who will wear the number 12 shirt, is delighted to join Town having been impressed by the ambition at Portman Road.

He is the Blues' second signing of the January window after keeper Christian Walton, whose loan from Brighton was turned into a permanent switch yesterday.

“It’s a massive club which is going in the right direction, so I’m buzzing to be a part of it,” Bakinson told the club site. “Everyone at the club is very ambitious so it’s definitely something I’m very excited about.

“I’m a hard-working player who likes to get on the ball. I’m a box-to-box midfielder and hopefully I’ll get a goal or two. I want to play as many games as I can and help the team as much as possible.”

Manager Kieran McKenna added: “It was really important that we kept Christian Walton and Macauley Bonne at the club. Once we had done that, we knew that we would look at some areas in the squad to see where we may be able to strengthen or add depth.

“Tyreeq is a versatile midfielder who can play across the pitch and cover a number of positions. He offers us something different and is at an age where he has lots of years ahead to improve further.

“We really like Tyreeq as a player. He’s young, hungry, athletic and technical. He is fit and has played plenty of games already this season, so it won’t take him long to get up to speed.

“He needs to meet the group and settle, but it shouldn’t be long before we see him in action.”

Blackpool and Hull City are also understood to have shown interest in Bakinson but with the Robins preferring central midfielder to join a club outside the Championship.

London-born Bakinson came through the youth ranks at Luton before joining 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 Bakinson 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.

Towards the end of last year, the Robins activated an additional one-year option in his contract in order to protect their asset taking his deal to the summer of 2023.

Bakinson is Town’s fourth current loan player - alongside Bersant Celina from Dijon, Macauley Bonne from QPR and Hayden Coulson from Middlesbrough - with Walton having signed on a permanent basis and Louie Barry returning to Aston Villa earlier in the month.

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mathiemagic added 10:39 - Jan 21 Dubbed the "Mini Pogba"....Happy if he brings some of the Pogba skill but lets hope he brings none of the Pogba baggage. Sadly Pearson seems to think he might just do that. We will judge you ourselves though. Welcome aboard #COYB
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Linkboy13 added 11:00 - Jan 21 Don't know why his manager would want to slag him off in public if he's trying to get rid of him. Im open minded on this one might be the spur he needs to prove him wrong otherwise he can sling his hook.
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chepstowblue added 11:09 - Jan 21 My Bristol C friends have told me not to get excited. I quote...." Nowhere near good enough for championship level. Weak in the tackle, clumsy, and with a tendency to let the game bypass him. Has done OK when out on loan to the lower league's, but don't expect him to change your fortunes or deluded expectations"...unquote. Horses for courses as we know, so im reserving judgement on this one. I'd certainly have preferred to see a bit more of Harper though.

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Jonaldo added 11:14 - Jan 21 It will be interesting to see where he fits in to McKenna's plans. I like Evans in that holding midfielder role. Thought he covered a lot of ground and re-cycled the ball well. His passing was crisp and accurate. So who plays out of Evans, Morsy and Bakinson?
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Radlett_blue added 12:10 - Jan 21 I know nothing about this player but I hope he is a player whom McKenna really wants & he has a good idea how he is going to fit into the team & not be one of these pointless signings who clutters up an already large squad & makes a few substitute appearances.
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Orraman added 13:29 - Jan 21 The negativity on this site will just not go away. I really thought that all that might have gone along with Cook. Do you moaners not think that Kieran would have established that he would have control of the team before signing and that while taking advice from Mark Ashton he would decide who he would like to see come and go. No, most of us have not heard of Bakinson, we will have to wait and see but for his sake and the club's sake I hope he does really well and makes you moaners eat your words

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Linkboy13 added 15:30 - Jan 21 ChrisFelix There's a big difference between Celina and Edwards. Celina creates and scores goals, Edwards seems to do neither although he is exciting to watch but with no end product.
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BeattiesBackPocket added 18:39 - Jan 21 Little concerning from Pearson's comments but I like to make my own mind up on this guy he was clearly talented enough for them to extend him. Some people on here critical or concerned of the commitment etc of this player don't know him and were the same ones sticking up for our ex players who left the past couple of years when the manager said about their attitudes being poor you couldn't write it on here sometimes!

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