Daizen Maeda is reportedly set to undergo a medical tomorrow ahead of a move to Ipswich.
According to Sky Sports , the Premier League club are hopeful of completing a medical in the next 24 hours ahead of a transfer for the Japan forward.
BREAKING: Daizen Maeda is scheduled to have a medical with Ipswich in the next 24 hours ahead of completing his move from Celtic 🚨 pic.twitter.com/IGwSRaqnz4
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A deal of up to £10m is thought to have been agreed, with £8m up front.
Maeda has been vocal over his desire to make a move to the Premier League, with his dream set to become a reality with the newly promoted English club.
Ipswich are keen to wrap up the deal by the end of the week. Maeda was into the final year of his contract and Martin O'Neill had admitted Celtic were resigned to the fact the player would not sign extended terms in Glasgow.
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"I think there's some resignation in that aspect," he said, discussing Maeda.
"It isn't one of those where he's got a year left to run and we want to try and make something of it in the sense of getting money. It's not that at all.
"Personally speaking, I would love it if he just let his contract run through.
"And played for the last year. Honestly, it would be super. I don't know whether that's in his mind or in his agent's mind.
"If I throw back, not every comparison has been made, but Henrik Larsson told me a year before that that was going to be his last year.
"Now, his contract was out at that stage and he was fantastic for us in the final season.
"But he made it clear that that's what he was going to do. He had his time.
"Now, the only difference between that is that he's got a year left to run. That's all.
"But it's not one of us trying to make as much out of it in terms of finance. It's me, personally.
"I'd love him to stay. I'm not sure that that's going to happen."
