Ipswich Town agree fee with West Brom for goalkeeper Alex Palmer on transfer deadline day
Ipswich Town are closing in on the deadline day signing of West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Alex Palmer in a permanent deal.
Reports are varying between the clubs having struck either a £5 million (Express & Star) and £2m (TWTD) for the 28-year-old who came through the youth ranks at the Championship promotion-chasers.
All agree that the 6ft 3in tall Kidderminster-born player, who has made 104 starts, though none in the Premier League, for the Baggies, is heading to Suffolk for a medical.
Palmer, who won caps with England at Under-16 level and has had loan spells at his hometown club, Oldham, Notts County, Plymouth Argyle, Lincoln City and Luton Town, would become Town’s fourth addition of the winter transfer window.
It comes after summer signing Aro Muric, who the Blues shelled out a reported £10 million for from Burnley in the summer, has been the subject of a number of costly errors while Christian Walton, who had displaced him in Kieran McKenna’s side, is now out injured for ‘a number of weeks’.
Palmer has not played for West Brom in the Emirates FA Cup this season, so subject to a successful medical, could be handed his Blues debut at Frank Lampard’s Coventry City on Saturday (3pm).
A goalkeeper coming in would also suggest one could be going out before tonight’s 11pm deadline with Scotland Under-21 international Cieran Slicker, who was called into the senior international squad earlier this season, seemingly the more likely to depart on loan.