Town are being linked with a move for Stoke City striker Lee Gregory.

According to Football League World, the Blues have made an offer for the 32-year-old, who ended last season on loan at Derby County, scoring three goals in six starts and five appearances.

Gregory is understood to be surplus to requirements at Stoke this summer despite having a year remaining on his contract.

The Sheffield-born frontman impressed Rams’ boss Wayne Rooney during his loan spell but the Championship side are currently subject to a transfer embargo.

Town are likely to be on the lookout for another senior striker having signed Macauley Bonne on loan from QPR and with James Norwood among the players already in the squad manager Paul Cook has in his plans for the season ahead.

Gregory was a schoolboy at Sheffield United but dropped into non-league with Staveley Miners Welfare and then-National League Mansfield. While with the Stags, the 6ft 2in tall striker spent time on loan at Glapwell, Harrogate and Halifax before making his move to the Shaymen a permanent switch.

In June 2014 Gregory signed for Millwall and it was with the Lions where he made his name, netting 77 goals in 201 starts and 37 sub appearances.

He joined Stoke in June 2019 and bagged seven times in 29 starts and 21 sub appearances prior to his loan to Derby.

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BeattiesBackPocket added 20:34 - Jul 6 Facup78 probably a lot of people on here have done coaching of sorts unless you've coached a league one club your opinion is yours only and not one we have to take for granted just because you don't agree with what others say or they don't give you a load of ‘up' votes
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Dog added 20:47 - Jul 6 Facup78 - i know what you are getting at, but i don't think Lambert was a genius. One dimensional with no plan B. That said, he has a better win ratio than Paul Cook. An easy fixture list to start of season should have that corrected by the end of August. If it doesn't then you can start to worry.
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Fartman added 20:58 - Jul 6 @FAcup78 Cook should have got more of what we had when he took over…
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leftie1972 added 21:27 - Jul 6 His wages would surely be a problem, wouldn't they?
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WorcesterBlue added 23:10 - Jul 6 Back to Lee Gregory I think he'd be a reasonable signing but not quite the level of player to build from moving forwards. We do need a plan B big striker and he's better than Drinan.
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Blueboy23 added 23:49 - Jul 6 For me personally, 1 goal every 3.5 games isn't that great. Is that any better then what we have?? What about a target man like Jon Dadi Bodvarsson? Also, links regarding Matt Crooks.... What are people's opinion... Rotherham want 1m+ what would you do?
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bluesteel added 00:49 - Jul 7 why aren't we cashing in on norwood before he's injured again?
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BcarefulwhatUWish4 added 03:23 - Jul 7 His recent strike ratio isn't that impressive but he has scored 162 goals in his professional career to date. That's not bad at all.
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Razor added 10:23 - Jul 7 Why are we not in for Charlie Wyke who I believe is off to Wigan (they are builfding a good side there). Would be a much better prospect and I thought the takeover gave us money to get these boys in-------I am not totally impressed at moment, have hardly heard of any of our new recruits at moment and does worry me.
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tebbo28 added 11:39 - Jul 7 At 32, best years behind him. Sounds like another Ollie Hawkins. Move on.
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Monkey_Blue added 12:00 - Jul 7 BeattiesBackPocket. Pathetic. Firstly I haven't said Lambert or the players were great, but we finished 11th because of a shocking dip in results and performances under Cook. He had 16 games, I'm sure your maths is spot on but that's just over 1/3 of a season. The stats are irrefutable. The idea you are pushing is both lambert and the players were terrible. If they were both awful why is it we were too third of the table? It wasn't the fans as there weren't any, if it was the players with a terrible manager they are better than you claim, if it was terrible players then Lambert is better than claimed. It's called rational thought and reason. The difference between just Outside the playoffs and winning this league is small margins. A good coach can see the tweaks both to squad, tactics and behaviour. Cook started to lay into the players publicly very quickly I assume out of embarrassment at how much worse we were under him. If you aren't better than lambert you are below average and if lambert had anything like the spend available to cook, I doubt we'd be in this division. Rather than throw mindless insults, actually argue against what I've said with….. I don't know, maybe a vaguely formed argument??

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BeattiesBackPocket added 12:50 - Jul 7 Monkeyblue yet again you call someone pathetic for calling you out. First season we finished 11th was under lambert cook came in second season so again you sure you're actually an Ipswich fan?? I've made my feelings clear on who's been responsible for the decline that's Evans. Every manager has struggled under his restraints and our best players were sold by him and league two players bought in without great statistics with them apart from Norwood. Mick, lambert in past have had to make do with a poor structure etc and lesser players. We now HAVE a structure the manager and owners ceo etc have the biggest job EVER FACT of anyone at Ipswich town. They need your support not constantly being moaned at by so called ‘supporters' like you who criticise at every opportunity the players bought in ceo bought in the owners all of which haven't even started yet but it's ok to say last two years players have been good when in FACT proven otherwise and lying their trades in league two proving your theory wrong so maybe get behind the team and criticise when or if it goes wrong not before!

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BeattiesBackPocket added 12:54 - Jul 7 A vaguely formed argument?? This who says constantly the players were good enough yet in league two now but won't give new players a chance and constantly moans at everything the new board and ceo do? The time to critique the manager will be earliest Christmas time as he is being given by the new owners and Ashton everything he wants now so no excuses but to criticise anyone before a balls kicked is idiotic at best so there you go let's here your vaguely formed argument to my points? Why was last years team good enough but in league two?? Why won't you give anyone new a chance without constantly moaning and apparently predicting the future at a time we have declined for 14 years but now have owners who want to give the manager the best??

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Marinersnose added 14:18 - Jul 7 We are getting linked to several decent player but we appear to be failing at the final hurdle getting them over the line. Wyke has signed for Wigan now and we still haven't signed a new striker other than a loanee. Goals were a problem last season and will still be a problem. I can't wait to see this new team but we are still well short and this means PC returning to those players who he told to find another club. We have some good acquisitions but we definitely need more.

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dukey44 added 18:45 - Jul 7 I'm hearing he's off to Wigan as well?
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