Crystal Palace are on the verge of signing Newcastle midfielder Dan Gosling and are also targeting controversial West Brom forward Peter Odemwingie.
Palace have already agreed personal terms with Gosling and are just negotiating with Newcastle over the size of the transfer fee.
No complications are expected and the 23-year-old will be reunited with Palace boss Ian Holloway, who gave him his professional debut as a 16-year-old at Plymouth.
Gosling’s agent David Hodgson said today: “The most important thing is for Dan to play football again and when your old manager comes in for you, and it is for a Premier League team, what better place to go? A permanent deal is the intention and all parties would be happy with that.”
Palace,who have already signed Dwight Gayle, Jerome Thomas and Stephen Dobbie, are also looking at Odemwingie.
The West Brom forward caused a furore in January when his attempts to engineer a move to QPR failed.
Rangers are still interested in the Nigerian international, but Palace have the advantage of offering Premier League football.
Meanwhile, Holloway has revealed he won’t be making an attempt to re-sign Wilfried Zaha on loan from Manchester United.
Zaha was signed from Palace by United in a £15m deal in January, but spent the second half of the last campaign at Selhurst Park and played a key role in their promotion to the Premier League.
Speculation has continued over whether new Manchester United manager David Moyes will want the 20-year-old to play elsewhere again and Palace have been linked with a move for their former trainee.
But Holloway said: “I don't think for one minute I'd even consider asking David Moyes about signing him right now. I don't think it's fair to the boy. He's got to have a go at United.
"I'm sure I know Moyes that well that if there was a club in the Premier League that Wilfried Zaha wanted to play for, if it wasn't Manchester United, I'm sure it would be us. So, I'm sure the phone would ring.
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"Let's be perfectly honest, I think the boy is so exciting he's going to have a chance at United and I can see him getting in their first team. I genuinely mean that.
"I wish him all the best in his Manchester United career and well done to them for buying him. Sir Alex Ferguson very rarely gets them wrong and David Moyes will be delighted he's found that talent in his midst, because he can win games at the very, very top level."
