Middlesbrough s Adam Johnson is again said to be on Jim Magilton s wish list as he looks to sign a left-sided midfielder. Magilton is still to add a left winger to his squad with a move for Southampton s Rudi Skácel having broken down earlier in the summer.
Academy midfielder Reggie Lambe won his seventh full Bermuda cap overnight as their Digicel Caribbean Cup qualifying campaign got off to a disastrous start with a 4-0 defeat to Antigua and Barbuda in the Cayman Islands.
A Dean Ashton hat-trick sent the Blues to a 5-3 defeat in their final pre-season friendly against West Ham at Portman Road. Town, for whom Shumulikoski, Garvan and Lee scored, impressed in the first half, but were very much second best after the break.
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