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Huddersfield Town are reportedly set to sign Bristol City midfielder Marcus McGuane.

Huddersfield Town are reportedly set to sign Bristol City midfielder Marcus McGuane as their summer recruitment drive continues.

That's according to Bristol Live reporter Dan Carter, who claims that McGuane is "close" to completing a permanent move to Huddersfield after just one year at Bristol City.

The Terriers endured a nightmare end to last season under caretaker Jon Worthington as they lost all of their final six games on the way to a disappointing 10th-placed finish in League One, but optimism is high at the Accu Stadium heading into the new campaign after a busy summer following the appointment of new manager Lee Grant.

Grant has been given strong backing by owner Kevin Nagle this summer, and having already brought in Owen Goodman, Lynden Gooch, Joe Low, Sean Roughan, Josh Feeney, Jack Whatmough, Murray Wallace, Ryan Ledson and Marcus Harness, Town signed Birmingham City striker Alfie May for a fee of £1.2 million this week in a deal that was first exclusively revealed by FLW.

However, despite the influx of new arrivals, it seems Huddersfield are far from done in the transfer market, and McGuane looks set to become the next player to join the ambitious West Yorkshire outfit.

Huddersfield Town set to sign Bristol City midfielder Marcus McGuane

After coming through the Arsenal academy, McGuane made the move to Spanish giants Barcelona in January 2018, but he was unable to make the step up to the first-team at the Nou Camp, and he was loaned out to Dutch side Telstar in the 2019-20 season.

McGuane returned to English football when he joined Nottingham Forest in February 2020, but he did not fare much better at the City Ground as he failed to make a single senior appearance for the club.

However, McGuane would make a name for himself with Oxford United after initially arriving at the Kassam Stadium on loan in August 2020 before completing a permanent move the following summer, and he scored three goals and provided 11 assists in 152 appearances during his four-year spell at the club.

McGuane was part of the U's side that achieved promotion from League One via the play-offs in the 2023-24 season to secure a return to the second tier of English football for the first time in 25 years, but he departed to reunite with his former Oxford manager Liam Manning at Bristol City last summer.

Despite the fact that Manning and McGuane had worked together previously, it proved to be a frustrating debut season for the 26-year-old at Ashton Gate, and aside from a brief run in the team over the winter period, his game time was limited for much of the campaign as the Robins recorded a sixth-placed finish in the Championship.

Manning departed Bristol City to take over at Norwich City last month, but it seems McGuane has been deemed surplus to requirements by his replacement, Gerhard Struber, and he now looks set to join Huddersfield on a permanent basis.

Marcus McGuane could be the final piece of the Huddersfield Town puzzle

Huddersfield have done some eye-catching transfer business this summer, and after Grant bolstered his defence and forward line, midfield was arguably the one area still in need of improvement.

McGuane may have struggled to fulfil the potential that saw him earn a move to Barcelona earlier in his career, but he is a technically-gifted midfielder who could certainly thrive in the right environment.

It may not have worked out for McGuane at Bristol City, but he was a key part of the Oxford side that won promotion from League One in the 2023-24 campaign, and he will be hoping to replicate that achievement with the Terriers next season.