Stead signs for Ipswich on loan

Ipswich have signed Jon Stead on loan from Sheffield United until January.

Town have also agreed a fee with the Blades for the 25-year-old striker should the move become permanent.

The former England Under-21 international started his career at Huddersfield and scored 22 goals in 68 games before a Premier League move.

Blackburn Rovers signed him for £1.25m in 2004 and he scored eight goals in 42 games before moving on to Sunderland and then Sheffield United.

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Stead spent 18 months at the Stadium of Light, before switching to Bramall Lane in a £750,000 deal in January 2007.

He scored five goals in 14 appearances for the Blades that season, but could not stop them being relegated from the Premier League.

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