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Town are reported to upped their bid for Blackpool central defender Curtis Tilt to £700,000.
According to Sky Sports, the Tangerines are yet to accept the offer for the 26-year-old, who is understood to have handed in a transfer request.
The Blues previous two bids for Tilt had seen them reach £550,000 with the two sides having been involved in a stand-off for most of the month, Blackpool having put a £1 million price tag on their player's head.
Talks are understood to have taken place last week and Blues boss Paul Hurst was evidently pleased to learn that Tilt hadn’t played for the Seasiders in their friendly against Crewe Alexandra after Town’s game against West Ham, hinting that it might signify good news.
However, the deal was still to be done and it appears Town have now increased their offer as they look to secure the Walsall-born defender ahead of the weekend opener against Blackburn Rovers at Portman Road.
Tilt played in non-league for Halesowen Town, Hednesford Town, AFC Telford Town, Wrexham and Forest Green Rovers (loan) before joining Blackpool last summer.
He made 45 starts for the League One side in 2017/18, his first EFL campaign, scoring once and picking up three Seasiders’ player of the season gongs.
Rangers, Reading, QPR and Portsmouth have all also been linked with Tilt this summer.
Meanwhile, former Blues loanee Bersant Celina has joined Swansea City from Manchester City for an initial £3 million, signing a four-year deal.
The Swans have also recruited another winger, Barrie McKay, from Nottingham Forest, who was linked with Town earlier in the summer.
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The guy is freaking class!! After watching that video I would say he is easily worth a million. I would say he's have walked into our midfield - let alone defence- during most of last 5 years. What vision passing, dribbling - AND a good defender!
My prediction - this guy will play premier league. (We better get him)
He's well worth a million in todays wildly inflated transfer market. Will be gutted if we lose him. He's better than Nsiala and Imar Becles from the video clips.
PH has not gained my respect yet. That will come after we have 4 points from first two games . I also want entertaining football. Wingers who cross and don't cut back in. Shots on goal. Anything less will mean his transfer strategy may have failed and another long hard season.
I also fail to see why the Tilt transfer has taken so long. Just give blackpool the money. We still have 3 million in the bank. Why quibble over £250,000????.
we will dilly dally around as usual and someone else will sign him. Just agree the £1m and FFS sign him this week. I still seriously wonder about the ambition [ or distinct lack of it ] of ME
Agree Barty. Fannying about as usual. Tractorboybig - and thus royally shoot ourselves in the foot for the sake of 100-200k when we have the money to get him?! Get it done
I can understand the frustration of some fans here over what seems a small amount of money in footballing terms. Usually, I'm happy for us to haggle as everyone else does it, but it seems that just this guy is the best of the bunch we are in for and the one we really want, so let's get him before someone else does. If he's as good as he is rumoured to be, he will be a great investment anyway.
I did read somewhere that Blackpool keep moving the goalposts on the deal which is what is causing the problem. Probably the amount of money up front as a similar situation to what prevent the Waghorn to Derby deal going through. If he is that good then we would recoup the money and then some in 2-3 years. Bit of a no brainer for me, lets get this one done so he is ready for Saturday along with any other deals we have in the pipeline.
It's unlikely to be Hurst doing the negotiating so give credit to Milne, Evans and probably others behind the scenes. Too easy to knock Evans. He may not be putting in the millions for players but he is not letting Hurst down either who clearly has an eye for promising low budget players. The PR crowd needs to get behind the team and make some noise even when things are not going so well. Too quiet most of the time compared to other grounds.
This will happen especially as Tilt has requested a transfer so that's 15% more for Blackpool to swallow up.
However Oyston is stubborn, but they need the money as Blackpool are another club like Coventry where the supporters stay away because of the chairman rather than the team.
Might be a late deal but we do have adequate cover now at centre back for Saturday.
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