Town are edging closer to the signing of AFC Wimbledon striker Ali Al-Hamadi.

According to the EADT, a fee in excess of £1 million plus further add-ons has now been agreed between the clubs.

TWTD understands the 21-year-old’s former club Wycombe Wanderers is entitled to 25 per cent of the fee.

Al-Hamadi is currently at the Asian Cup with Iraq, who take on Jordan in the round of 16 this morning. Town are understood to have carried out a medical in Qatar, where the competition is being played, over the weekend.

As reported on Saturday, a number of other clubs showed interest in Al-Hamadi after news of Town’s interest emerged at the end of last week, but we understand none matched the Blues’ offer with the player in any case very keen on the Town move.

The 6ft 2in tall striker joined the Dons on a free transfer from the Chairboys in January last year.

Al-Hamadi was born in Iraq but moved to Liverpool in 2003 as a one-year-old during the Iraq War.

Having been a youth player with Tranmere and Swansea, the 6ft 2in tall frontman joined Wycombe Wanderers in 2021 following a trial but made his first senior appearances during a loan spell in the National League with Bromley.

Having been a regular for the Chairboys in League One throughout 2021/22 and in the first half of the following season, Al-Hamadi, who has been capped 12 times by Iraq, scoring three goals, moved on to Wimbledon in League Two on a free transfer in January 2023.

Since then, he has scored 27 goals in 40 starts and eight sub appearances for the Wombles, including 17 this season.

Town are continuing to pursue Blackburn striker Sam Gallagher with a deal looking more likely than it did a few days ago. As reported over the weekend, Rovers are showing interest in Swansea's Jerry Yates and that move could allow Gallagher to join the Blues should the clubs agree a fee.

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missingsuffolk added 11:40 - Jan 29 Good stuff. Glad to hear this deal is almost there, with medicals done etc.
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SamWhiteUK added 11:42 - Jan 29 Excited if this gets over the line. Sounds like he has exactly the qualities we need, and the fact that he's only 21, he'll come in raw with a point to prove and should be a perfect fit for the McKenna way of improving players. I think £1m+ could be a steal in a market when strikers seem to be extremely hard to come by. We definitely won't have been the only club looking at him.

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LesTibbetsbrokenleg added 11:42 - Jan 29 He doesn't appear to be in the starting line up or on the bench for Iraq v Jordan match today.
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itfckenty added 11:47 - Jan 29 when a player has other potential offers on the table and chooses us, that bodes very well for me. it shows he wants to come to our club and wear that badge with pride. good start. fingers crossed we get this one done and then get another in ASAP. would be nice to have a player in and ready to rock for Saturday.
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Len_Brennan added 11:49 - Jan 29 We need a 'presence' up front for the type of game KMcK has up playing, a focal point to win the ball deep into the opposition half, make it stick, & then either turn on goal or link up with the 3 forwards just behind. Being a good confident finisher is the icing on the cake. Hopefully Ali can be all that, although a tough ask for him to step up 2 divisions into a promotion race straight away. A further benefit of this signing is his age, as he won't impact on the squad number limit. Good luck to him.

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Help added 11:52 - Jan 29 Oh happy days
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Cavendish_Blue added 11:56 - Jan 29 One things for sure after Saturday, we need a finisher!!!!
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Karlosfandangal added 11:56 - Jan 29 Fingers crossed he has the impact David Johnson had on his arrival at Town
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IpswichT62OldBoy added 12:00 - Jan 29 Two more days.
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Europablue added 12:04 - Jan 29 Presumably, he won't be available to us until Iraq are finished at the Asian Cup?
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 12:06 - Jan 29 This sounds promising. He may not have been the first choice, but now he is almost here, we should support him fully. He plays for a national team and looks to have some finishing ability - we certainly need some of that up front. Welcome, Ali - if that's not too premature.
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WonnorCickhamm added 12:06 - Jan 29 Genuine question - why are Wycombe entitled to a fee if he moved to Wimbledon from them on a free transfer?
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Gforce added 12:07 - Jan 29 I wonder if there's any truth to the rumours we are interested in signing the Austrian Entrep,he's scored plenty in the German top flight,so maybe worth a punt. Hopefully this Al Hamadi deal also goes through, an excellent age and looks tidy from what I've seen,(albeit online)
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kuyski added 12:10 - Jan 29 How about any cover in RB，now only clarke is availiable and I don't have much confidence in him！
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GTRKing added 12:10 - Jan 29 Ali is a great LG1/LG2 striker well worth the buy for his age! Won’t be ready for the promotion push yet but get him settled in & he will be ready for next season in the prem hopefully! Hopefully we can get sam Gallagher as well Happy days
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essexccc added 12:13 - Jan 29 Impressive to do the medical in Qatar. Can't imagine that happening under previous ownerships.
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oldelsworthyfan added 12:14 - Jan 29 This will be a great signing. We saw a few players from lower divisions 'step up' this week-end, Particularly strikers.
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BobbyBell added 12:15 - Jan 29 An exciting and sensible addition. We cannot spend big but we are owned by investors and this is potentially a great investment as with KM and his coaching staff this lad could make it here and his value would increase massively. I like how our club is being run now. I also hope that Entrep is still on our wanted list.
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GTRKing added 12:24 - Jan 29 Jordan beating Iraq 1-0 looks like Ali will join us sooner Than expected yay Let’s get him in & hopefully he can score some goals for us
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Karlosfandangal added 12:30 - Jan 29 I am hoping Entrep instead of Gallagher scoring goals in Germany
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ElephantintheRoom added 12:31 - Jan 29 McKenna’s last two lower league strikers have lasted a few weeks and a few months before becoming ignored and sent on loan. Third time lucky maybe.
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Lightningboy added 12:33 - Jan 29 A gamble - let's hope he doesn't turn out to be another Ahadme. No doubt our form has tailed off since Hirst got injured but it's not been right since Sky started re-arranging our fixtures at the beginning of December - do you realise we haven't had a 3pm home Saturday match since December 2nd ?
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blues1 added 12:43 - Jan 29 Karlosfandangel. We're not after Enrtrup. Phil stated so on the twtd twitter page as,soon as we were linked with him. Plus why wouldvyou want him rather than Gallagher. Entrap no experience in england, coming into this lge? Arguably one of the toughest lges around? Gallagher, loads of experience, and very similar in style to hirst. So exactly what we need .
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thevoiceofreason added 12:43 - Jan 29 Has he played any minutes in the AFCON? I don’t think he did for their first two matches and not even on the bench today. Doesn’t bode well unless there is something we don’t know about. Feels a little bit like a Gassan moment for me.
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Marinersnose added 12:44 - Jan 29 It’ll be good to get this lad on board . McKenna looks carefully at the numbers and clearly this lad is the right profile for our team albeit he’s unproven at Championship level he’s young and has an eye for goal. Hopefully another one or two to follow as we clearly have no focal point up top and no aerial threat. A versatile full back also required to cover Davis and Clarke.

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