Wolves are closer to signing Roger Johnson
Monday 11th July 2011, 2:49PM BST.
Wolves were today moving closer to signing top target Roger Johnson after opening talks with the £7m-rated Birmingham defender.
The 28-year-old was at Molineux earlier today for discussions after the clubs agreed a fee for a deal that would match their £7m club record with Steven Fletcher.
Johnson is poised to become the club’s highest earner when he puts pen to paper on a four-year contract worth an estimated £40,000-a-week.
The Londoner has been Mick McCarthy’s No 1 since the end of the season.
Wolves acted quickly in resuming their hunt for Johnson, who they missed out two years ago when he joined Blues for £5m, after Matt Mills last week joined Leicester for an initial fee of £4.5m.
They were put off by Blues’ demands of £9m for Johnson, but the clubs have reached a compromise on the fee.
Birmingham are resigned to losing their best players following relegation from the Premier League and Johnson’s agent Paul Smith said early last month that his client had been told he could move on.
Signing Johnson will make up to Wolves for losing out on his Blues team-mate Craig Gardner, who joined Sunderland for £4.5m.
UK Sport
Shropshire Star on Twitter
Keep updated with the latest breaking news and content on our Twitter feed.
Lifestyle
Interactive Dining Out map
Hundreds of reviews by the Shropshire Star and Express & Star's teams to help you decide where to eat.
Entertainment
All the film reviews
Before you plan a trip to the pictures, get our critics' verdicts on all the latest movie releases.
OUR NEW APP
Get the new Shropshire Star app
Download the Shropshire Star’s new app to your iPad or iPhone to get one week of access to our digital newspapers absolutely FREE.
shropshirestar.com
Popular sections
Useful links
great news
Report abuse
I will believe it WHEN he signs,
it smells a bit like his agent telling other clubs to get their finger out or he will go to Wolves.
If and it’s a big IF, we sign him we still need Upson to play along side him.
Then and only then will I believe we have a chance of completing instead of surviving in this league.
Report abuse
The deal is half done so there’s still something that can go wrong but I hope all goes well. And I agree that we should sign upson to secure are prem place.
COME ON WOLVES
Report abuse