Bristol City are reported to have made a £200,000 bid for Town striker Jon Stead. The former Sheffield United, Blackburn and Huddersfield man was amongst the eight players the Blues recently made available for transfer.

Earlier in the summer, Town had agreed a £400,000 fee with Stead’s former loan club Coventry for the 27-year-old, but the move broke down after the Sky Blues sacked manager Chris Coleman. Stead’s hometown side Huddersfield, where he started his career, have also been linked.

This morning, Town boss Roy Keane revealed that the Blues were in talks with three clubs who are interested in current squad members.

Two of those possible deals are likely to be Owen Garvan’s proposed move to Crystal Palace and Alex Bruce’s expected switch to Sheffield United, while the third could be any number of potential deals with QPR understood to be interested in Jon Walters, Swansea in Tamás Priskin and Millwall and Charlton amongst various clubs believed to be chasing Kevin Lisbie.

Meanwhile, the Blues will not be entering a reserve side in the LB Group Suffolk Premier Cup this season. Former boss Jim Magilton revived Town’s involvement in the competition in 2006, but it has often proved difficult to fit in the fixtures. The Blues won last season’s competition, beating Needham Market 4-1 in the final at Portman Road.

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TrueBlue4Eva added 18:47 - Jul 23 Before he got suspended ridicously at crystal palace, he was our best player and i never understood why we loaned him out. keep him unless we need the money. very good on his day, if we can get them days to come abit more often i see 20 goals in him
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WadzillaBhoy added 18:52 - Jul 23 He scored 13 goals out of 41 games in his best season for us and he calls himself a striker! I dont understand why people are getting upset, he is not good enough for the first team and he is too expensive for back up = get rid!
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SiBo added 18:57 - Jul 23 Truesblue4Eva: Your right... if we could get those to come more often he would be a 20 goal a season man, but it isn't going to happen... I don't think he lazy, but his movement tends to be away from goal... I think he was taught once many years ago to go look for space if their isn't any and took it all a little too much to heart. It means he goes further and further back and wider, so he almost ends up as another midfielder. If he could take a leaf from Rooney book of creating space... I agree he would be excellent. why? Because Rooney pushes a defender back and back, then quickly drops deep to find the space… then deep is just a couple of yards short of the back line, with the back line pushed right back… very threatening… But let's be honest, what chance has Stead of pushing back a defensive line with the threat of his power/pace/control making the back 4 get further back as they want the time to anticipate/react to his next move? Nope… move him on and bring in a goal scorer.

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Suffolk_n_Good added 18:58 - Jul 23 lol legoman, post of the day! -Feeling more optimistic now, seems as if things are strating to happen, Garvan, Stead, Lisbie, Priskin, Bruce all dead wood that needs moving on, I'm happy to let these go, will give us the cash to bring in some much needed new faces - Happy Days!!
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gloucester_tractor added 19:06 - Jul 23 brave move to ship him out before we have someone coming in I am happy they will be happy to see him in bristol but not at 200k as things stand we still need him for the start of the season
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Mark added 19:18 - Jul 23 We should remember that only two players scored 20 goals in the Championship last year: Whittingham and Maynard (Chopra got 18). 13 goals in a season isn't a disgrace therefore and would make Stead worth more than £200K in my opinion. I thought for £600K he was a reasonable purchase actually.
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fifeblue added 19:29 - Jul 23 FootballsMyLife - football might be but English isn't. The use of 'of' when it should be 'have' ... aaagh! Should be punishable by beheading!They'd never make that mistake again!
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titanicclown added 19:40 - Jul 23 Good player Stead, it will be a terrible bit of business to let him go for £200,000. He's a proven performer with premiership experience. Town shouldn't listen to anything less than £500,000. Anything could happen at circus ITFC at the moment though!
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marcusevans added 20:27 - Jul 23 Steady on guys! We do not actually know how much we are receiving up front and how much in add ons do we? Let the club worry about the finances and just sit back and enjoy the ride!
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brogansnose added 20:34 - Jul 23 He is not the perfect striker but £200,000.............its not a car boot sale.
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slowerball added 22:49 - Jul 23 Look at his hair in the picture..... GET RID.
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suffolksam added 08:36 - Jul 24 how is anyone we buy cost 1=3 mill and anyone we sell sometimes the same players 12 months later we sell for 100 =400 thousand what plonkers are running this club
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slowerball added 23:01 - Jul 24 Sell - £4 should do it.
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