Midfielder Scott Fraser’s move to Charlton has been confirmed, the 26-year-old having agreed a deal until the summer of 2025.

As reported earlier, TWTD understands the undisclosed fee agreed is larger than the sum the Blues paid for the Scot in the summer when he joined from MK Dons.

Fraser told the Addicks club site: “I’m looking forward to playing for Charlton. It’s a big club, an ambitious club and I’m happy to be part of it.

“I’ve spoken to the manager and to [director of recruiting] Steve Gallen — it is a club that has got the ambition to go and do well and that matches mine.”

Charlton boss Johnnie Jackson added: “I’m really happy we’ve been able to bring Scott to the club. He is a player that I have admired from afar for a while, he has such quality and will be an excellent fit in our system.”

Town turned down the Addicks’ initial offer for the 26-year-old at the end of last week before the South Londoners came in with a new bid over the weekend.

Swansea, managed by Fraser’s former MK manager Russell Martin, had repeatedly been linked with Fraser during January, but with the Welsh club never making any contact with the Blues.

Fraser made 18 starts and two sub appearances, scoring once, on his debut, in his short spell at Portman Road.

Photo: TWTD

iaintaylorx added 13:06 - Jan 31 I can sort of understand it, but would be lying if I said I wasn't gutted. Never really got a fair chance and was always played out of position. If Mateta comes in, I will have no complaints (even though I doubt it). Could have done with Fraser's eye for a pass on Saturday but McKenna knows what he is doing and had my full backing. COYB!
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NthQldITFC added 13:07 - Jan 31 Good luck with the Addicks Scott. Didn't work out here for you in unusual circumstances, nobody's fault. Good player, good man, all the best.
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WalkRules added 13:12 - Jan 31 Quite telling that the photos were taken in the dark - which presumably means this was all but done last night.
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NITFC added 13:16 - Jan 31 This is a strange one. People who know more about football than me (Mick Mills for instance), rated him but I never saw it Good luck for the future fella
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runningout added 13:17 - Jan 31 Good luck SF. Hope he does well for Charlton, but not v us. Obvs
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BlueandTruesince82 added 13:19 - Jan 31 This makes sense, he hasn't quite fitted the way we play as if we've come out of this even then great. Shame we couldn't sell him to Swansea with a sell on clause
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BlueBlood90 added 13:19 - Jan 31 I can see this one coming back to bite us. Don't understand why we wouldn't loan him out first rather than instantly selling him.
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MickMillsTash added 13:23 - Jan 31 Not cut out for the high press but definitely a player who can look after the ball and tries to do the right thing. More goals and assists in him than Aluko ? Good Luck
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Orraman added 13:27 - Jan 31 Won't lose any sleep over this. Must be the only guy who made McCarthy's favourite, Jonathan Douglas, look fast
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Monkey_Blue added 13:37 - Jan 31 Let's hope this isn't needed to be us back in line with the fair play rules. I always worried we might have spent in the summer assuming promotion and packed out PR. I'm neither happy or upset at his departure but wish him well. I don't think he had the ideal chance to settle in as with many other signings. Maybe if he was fit when McKenna arrived he'd have had minutes and we wouldn't be selling but lots of football success or failure is about those sliding door moments

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BlueSwede added 13:40 - Jan 31 Makes perfect sense to me. If McKenna won't play him and we can get more for him than we paid - it's a no brainer to sell. And if we were afraid of players coming back to do well against us and succed after leaving, we would never sell anyone. This is a good piece of business whichever way you look at it.
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essexccc added 13:42 - Jan 31 I've been worried for a long while about our compliance with the Fair Play rules. Our attendances have of course been brilliant, but the two biggest, would not have made much more than others from ticket sales because of reduced prices. I've no doubt we've had to pay much higher wages to Christian Walton now he is “all ours” and probably a higher percentage of Macauley Bonnet's wage, in order to keep him. I'm sure, then, then that more slimming down of wages are necessary and while I agree with those who say we never saw the best of Fraser, I can't think of anyone else whom it'd have been more suitable to offload. If we got a higher fee than we paid, that's good business.

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Bobbiesboys added 13:43 - Jan 31 Good luck at Charlton Scot. I am not surprised as I felt he was the weaker player compared to Chaplin and Celina and with those two at the club he was always going to be way down the pecking order.
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Mariner1974 added 13:53 - Jan 31 I think it's great! We brought him in from MK Dons, and everyone was raving about his assists and goals record last season (most of them from the penalty spot). We let Teddy 'the boy wonder' Bishop go to get this guy in, but then we're ditching him after half a season. What they failed to tell us when we bought him, was he's more a Scottish Combine Harvester with his turning circle, than a true Tractor Boy! Glad we've moved swiftly and decisively on.

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blueboy1981 added 14:15 - Jan 31 I'm progressively forming the opinion that Ashton is running the joint - and the ‘Manager' is no more than the ‘Coach' …… !!! At the moment - MUCH to be proved at ITFC … !!! Cook's departing words may well be ringing in a few ears right now. We'll see … !!!
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Karlosfandangal added 14:15 - Jan 31 Frazer, Coulsen Nolan gone. Saved on wages made more money in on Frazer than we spent. However not really the window I expected so far
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GSH71 added 14:18 - Jan 31 The Americans probably wanted that to happen , they are here to make money , nothing else that is their main aim . We are always a selling club which is annoying . I don't think we will make the playoffs now . A few clubs have games in hand on us .
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blues1 added 14:24 - Jan 31 Monkeyblue./essexicc. This has nothing to do with the fair play rules. We were inside them after the summer window. And while yes, we've signed walton on a permanent deal, but, barry and coulson going, plus holy would have paid the extra wages,required for him. And why would we have to pay extra to keep bonne? We have him on a season long loan, with a recall this month, which qpr agreed not to take up. Even if there was any extra money involved in that, it would not have involved the wage bill( more likely an extra amount t to the loan fee), therefore not affecting the wage budget cap. And as the club had already stated that there would be ins and outs during the window, why are people surprised this deal has happened. Especially as he doesn't really fit in to the formation we are playing now?

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Loring added 14:37 - Jan 31 I can understand this move but at the same time I'm not sure whether we should of let him see the season out. With the change of system & the fact we haven't seen him play under new manager. Let's hope this doesn't bite us.
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OliveR16 added 15:02 - Jan 31 It's a sign of the disorganised recruiting last summer that we can sign a good player, then not play him, then sell him on to a rival. It's not 'good business' - it's a waste of six months of his career. Hopefully future recruitment will be more purposeful for our sake and that of the players.
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jas0999 added 17:29 - Jan 31 Strange one. Let's hope we have a permanent addition lined up to replace. A creative force.
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blueboy1981 added 17:35 - Jan 31 Far too many people making excuses for much that doesn't quite ‘stack up ‘ ….. !!! I make no apologies for questioning how much influence the Manager actually has in what is actually going on at Ipswich Town ??? Mark me down as you will - but you may well remember these words .., !!!
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ringwoodblue added 17:56 - Jan 31 “<Insert football team you've just signed for here> is a massive club, with lots of ambition and I can't wait to get started” yawn!
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Monkey_Blue added 18:28 - Jan 31 Blues1… I assume you are intimate with our limit and all the wages we are paying? Once again you claim some kind of knowledge none of us can have. I said I was concerned about the wages going up so much and Ashton said we were close to the limit in December… that's not to say we would take that as gospel. You conveniently forget we have signed a premiership and. Championship loanee in the window. If we have more room for wages then great but as pointed out, the bumper crowds have come mainly from cut price tickets. Please explain how you know as a fact our status on FFP?

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Monkey_Blue added 18:30 - Jan 31 Blues1 won't respond as he always states “facts” and doesn't produce evidence to make them more than his opinion.
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