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Rangers forward Garner closing in on Ipswich move

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Rangers forward Joe Garner is homing in on a return to the English Championship with Ipswich Town, according to GotTheBattleFeverOn.

The Gers news site claim that the 29-year-old will travel to Portman Road for a medical on Tuesday, ahead of a potential permanent transfer to the club.

It is that Garner has already agreed to put pen-to-paper on a three-year deal with Ipswich, with Rangers having accepted a bid in the region of just £500,000 for his services.

The deal would represent a considerable loss on the forward, with former Rangers boss Mark Warburton purchasing Garner for £1.8million from Preston North End a year ago.

However, Garner struggled to impress at Ibrox with just 10 goals scored from 34 appearances in all competitions for the Scottish club.

Rangers’ new boss Pedro Caixinha, meanwhile, is looking to trim the first-team squad after adding no fewer than five players to his ranks already this summer, and Garner looks set to be sacrificed.

Caixinha’s summer overhaul has seen two attacking players already arrive at Ibrox, and with more set to follow in the coming days, Garner will likely find himself falling even further down the pecking order.

But he has reportedly been offered a lifeline with Mick McCarthy’s Ipswich, who finished in a lowly 16th-place in the Championship last term, marking his return to the English second-tier after just a one-year absence.

The Daily Mail had also claimed on Monday that Garner was on the Ipswich radar, but the report failed to stipulate that a fee had been agreed, or that the forward was set for a medical.

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