McAuley

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It seems to me that the addition of Lincoln to pre-season today, and the fact that we have started talks with them, that Macauley is probably on his way.

And this game is like a sweetner for the club, like when we got a Celtic match for Steve Walford!!

[Master Fox]

Lincoln have given Leicester City boss Robert Kelly permission to open transfer talks with defender Gareth McAuley.

But finalising any deal will have to wait for another week because the 26-year-old is on international duty with Northern Ireland.

National boss Lawrie Sanchez has included six uncapped players for a tour of the United States and McAuley will be looking to add to his three previous caps as part of an 18-man squad selected for games against Uruguay in New Jersey tomorrow and Romania in Chicago on Friday.

I understand there was time for preliminary talks to be opened before McAuley jetted out with the squad yesterday.

City are confident the proposed transfer will not suffer any setbacks because McAuley seemed to be on the verge of moving to the Walkers Stadium last season but nothing came of the speculation at that time.

However, until the deal is signed and sealed, City will not take anything for granted, as their interest is bound to alert any other interested parties.

No other transfer activity appears to be in the pipeline yet, but Kelly does hope to make the right signings, in number and quality, to allow his squad to build on their progress in the latter part of last season.