Ipswich Town have tabled a big-money bid for Hull City defender Jacob Greaves, talkSPORT understands.
Hull are believed to value centre-back Greaves in excess of £20m.
The defender was an immensely valuable asset to the Tigers last season, scoring twice in 43 appearances as he helped Hull to a seventh place finish in the Championship.
His performances earned him a place in the 2023/24 Championship Team of the Season as well as Hull City’s Player of the Year award.
The 23-year-old has been with the club since he was just eight years old, having spent just one loan spell at Cheltenham Town between 2019 and 2020.
The defender’s links with the club go back very far indeed as his father is none other than former Hull defender Mark Greaves.
But with Ipswich Town determined to make a strong start to their 2024/25 Premier League campaign, Greaves could be tempted by the allure of playing first tier football for Kieran McKenna’s side.
Ipswich earned promotion to the Premier League after a 22-year-absence and have been boosted by the news that their in-demand manager will remain at the helm of the club next season.
Meanwhile, Greaves is not the only Hull player who could be bidding farewell to the club this summer.
Winger Jaden Philogene is also on the radar of a number of Premier League clubs with talkSPORT having previously reported Everton’s interest in the 22-year-old.
While the striker would be a huge loss to Hull, the club owner Alcun Ilicali admitted to talkSPORT that if he wanted to leave, then the club would do better to sell him.
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“If you ask me, I told my fans that I wouldn’t sell anybody. My idea in football is not to make money. My idea in football is to make a strong and bigger club.
“But to make a bigger club, sometimes if a player says ‘I want to go’, that’s a different case because for me, changing one player is not end of the world.
“But for any of my players, I would never want to ruin their career or their mood by pushing them because of the contract I have. So in that case, if Jadon wants to move and he says that he wants to go somewhere, it is his life.
“I love all my boys. So for me, I’m responsible of their career too. So they don’t need to play with us if they don’t want to play with us.”