Ipswich are haggling over a deal for Blackburn Rovers striker Sammie Szmodics - and are bizarrely just £500,000 apart.

The clubs have been debating the guaranteed sum starting point and Ipswich are at £8.5 million but won’t budge to the £9 million demanded.

The package for Szmodics includes extras for goals bonuses, a survival bonus and even a promotion bonus if Ipswich go down and then come back up in 2025-26.

However the negotiators cannot sort out the first sum to the frustration of all parties and the player.

Blackburn Rovers’s Icelandic cap Arnor Sigurdsson is fancied by Greek side PAOK Salonika.

PAOK are expected to make an offer but they are looking at a loan deal which is not ideal.

QPR are also interested in Sigurdsson but he is only among a list of possibles for them.

Rovers could let Sigurdsson go as it creates a vacancy for one more foreign signing in their squad.

Blackburn have lined up Japanese forward Ryo Germain but they do not have a space for him as a ‘non work permit’ player unless one leaves.

Meanwhile home-grown Buckley could also go after being loaned to Sheffield Wednesday last season. They would prefer a sale.

Story courtesy of Alan Nixon @reluctantnicko. 

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