Town are reported to have had an offer turned down for Leicester striker George Hirst.

TWTD revealed in May that the 23-year-old was among the frontmen on the Blues’ list of potential summer recruits and earlier in the week reported that the former England U20 international was a firm target.

Now the Portsmouth News is reporting that Town have had an offer rebuffed by the Foxes.

Portsmouth are also interested in Hirst returning on loan following a spell at Fratton Park last season in which he scored 15 times.

TWTD understands the Blues and Pompey are facing Championship opposition for Hirst, who has a year left on his Leicester contract, with one club having made an offer. Rotherham, where he spent a spell on loan in 2020/21, and Blackburn have previously been linked.

Hirst, the son of former Sheffield Wednesday and England frontman David, started his career with the Owls and as a youngster played for England’s U17s, U18s, U19s and U20s, featuring alongside Andre Dozzell, Flynn Downes, Tristan Nydam and Nick Hayes.

The 6ft 3in tall striker joined Belgian second division side OH Leuven in June 2018, then a year later moved on to Leicester.

Since signing for the Foxes he has made only two sub appearances, spending time on loan with the Millers, failing to score in four starts and 28 appearances from the bench, before last season’s spell at Pompey.

Meanwhile, Blues left-back target Leif Davis is reported to have impressed Leeds manager Jesse Marsch in pre-season, having played the second half of yesterday’s 4-0 friendly victory over Blackpool, however, could still move on according to The Athletic’s Whites journalist Phil Hay in his podcast.

“From what I’m told, Leif Davis has done really well since coming back,” he said. “Marsch has been quite sold on him. Ipswich are keen on Davis, they’re offering a lot of money in comparison to how much he has played. So he might exit.”

TWTD revealed on Monday that the Blues had made a £1 million move for Davis plus top-ups potentially totalling £500,000.

Davis has made six first-team starts and eight appearances from the bench, while he made 10 starts and five sub appearances for AFC Bournemouth during an injury-hit loan spell last season.

Photo: Reuters

BeattiesBackPocket added 15:12 - Jul 8 Hold on what championship sides are after Hirst!? But I've been assured on here by a minority he isn't good enough or we should be aiming higher 🤔 fingers crossed we get another striker in before season starts ive got the utmost faith in McKenna and Ashton to get it right but also don't want to be mugged off and pay over the odds
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brian_a_mul added 15:22 - Jul 8 Of course Marsch is sold on Davis, adds an extra few quid to transfer fee! Its great to think that we can comfortably chuck on 500k extra if needed!
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Stato added 15:29 - Jul 8 Let it go @beatties. I'll cheer him every minute he is on the pitch for Town but not gonna back down from saying I had hoped we might aim higher
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Bazza8564 added 15:41 - Jul 8 Well you never offer much first time, we will have leverage and the Downes money is extra in the kitty. Id be quite surprised if we cant land these two if we really want them, how are Portsmouth going to promise Hirst more in terms of future potential. If we lose out to a top Championship side, OK, but even then our potential will be viewed as enticing
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Suffolkboy added 15:59 - Jul 8 Let's continue to trust and believe that MA and KM know exactly what they want ,how to achieve it,and how to play the transfer ‘game ‘ ! There are bound to be cards held in reserve ,nothing is likely to be straight forward – but equally I cannot envision ITFC overpaying ,even if some premium is incurred ! COYB
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markchips added 16:01 - Jul 8 Usual stuff- expect we have as good a chance for both as any. It will come down to csh upfront so the Downed deal may just help. Suspect a few will need to go out such as Penney to balance the books.
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BeattiesBackPocket added 16:04 - Jul 8 Bossman I actually wasn't on about you I've only seen one post from you about it yesterday. But goes to show he must be better than you think if championship clubs are after him so have some faith until we're all shown otherwise
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RegencyBlue added 16:19 - Jul 8 Are Championship clubs interested or is it just a ploy to put the price up!
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RobITFC added 16:22 - Jul 8 @Brian_a_mul , his contract has a release clause of £1.5 million
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GTRKing added 16:30 - Jul 8 Sounds like we offered X amount to Leicester for hirst, they rejected it. Either we should offer more or move on to someone else
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Phil1969 added 16:30 - Jul 8 Transfer fee isn't the issue a few quid here etc. it's do they want to drop down to the shxt League One we are in even if next year looks promising. That's all we're selling!
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blues1 added 16:37 - Jul 8 Boss man. You keep saying I expect us to aim higher? Well come on, give us some names of strikers higher than Hirst, who are within the wages we can pay with the limit on wages? Ur not gonna be able to name any. Bcse they don't exist. And I'll give u a clue. Hirst is a player at a pl team. To go higher it would have to be a player playing 1st team football in the pl? So who do you know of who we could persuade to come here and drop his wages by at least say 20 or 30 k per week?

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Gforce added 16:51 - Jul 8 Either I'm getting old or Hirst looks about 14 on that picture 😆 Nonetheless I believe he'd be a very promising signing if it happens,same also with Davis from Leeds. If young Hirst is half as good as his dad,he'll certainly be good enough for league one.
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blues1 added 16:58 - Jul 8 BossMan that should read " u expect", not I expect.
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runningout added 17:42 - Jul 8 this “Trust in” is a bit cringy now, although personally I do just the same!! I wouldn't be miffed if a couple of attempts to sign Hirst didn't happen
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Linkboy13 added 17:54 - Jul 8 Looks like we are going to lose out to championship clubs as we did when we tried to sign Crooks from Rotherham.
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Phil1969 added 18:05 - Jul 8 Hirst made his debut against Tottenham does he know where Forest Green Rovers are ?
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PortmanTerrorist added 18:06 - Jul 8 No value in any striker from the UK. Hoping all the talk of international options being considered might unearth a gem for us....maybe from Holland or France? Elías Már Ómarsson is an interesting case and would rather try that now as we have the 'proven' lower league strikers in the house already.
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therein61 added 18:19 - Jul 8 Mr 10-20% trying to push the price up to line his own pocket
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blues1 added 18:20 - Jul 8 Kinkboy13. So u pick out the one player we missed out on to a championship club, as a sign Weyhill.iss out on hirst, ignoring the fact we've signed several players in the past 2 summer windows, who chose us over championship clubs?
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Gforce added 18:48 - Jul 8 PortmanTerrorist.....I quite agree,,it's about time we started looking abroad for some hidden gems.We never seem to hear about our scouting network overseas ,presuming we have one.I can't remember the last decent oversees player we signed (Knudsen doesn't count !) I'm sure there must be bargains in Holland,Belgium, Norway etc.
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tractorboybig added 18:51 - Jul 8 gforce...grow up no foreign hidden gem is coming to a third division club
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blueboy1981 added 19:04 - Jul 8 Whenever a Fee is involved for a Player, we always seem to be slow over the line, then invariably pipped at the post. After all we are Ipswich Town, and some things never change. Like being stuck halfway in Division 3 … !!!
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chepstowblue added 20:03 - Jul 8 Any chance of Harvey Barnes instead ?
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Ipswichbusiness added 20:18 - Jul 8 Just the usual haggling.
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