Cambridge United have moved to secure the services of prolific striker Daryl Clare for a fee of £10,000 from Gateshead.
The 31-year-old has agreed a two-year contact with the Club, subject to a medical to be completed tomorrow afternoon. He will commence pre-season training with the rest of the squad on Monday and has been allocated squad number 10.
Since joining Boston in 2001, Clare has scored 145 goals in 298 matches and U's boss Martin Ling was delighted to have landed his number one target, telling cambridgeunited.com, "Daryl's record speaks for itself. He's a one goal in two game striker at this level and also the level above.
"I have no hesitation that he'll come in and score the goals we require to be a successful side."
Martin went on, "Even though Daryl is in his early 30's, I'm confident his fitness levels and game playing ratio will be up to what we require.
"Strikers like this are hard to find and is why we've had to pay a fee to Gateshead. I feel he is more than an adequate replacement for Danny Crow and now leaves the shopping list at just one striker, which will now be once pre-season has started."
Martin finished by further underlining what he feels Daryl will bring to the Club, "If anyone reads the stats on him they'll see he will be the answer for this Football Club."
Daryl will speak to the website tomorrow afternoon once all the formalities have been completed.
Current 2010/11 Squad List/numbers:
1: Danny Naisbitt
2: Kevin Roberts
3: James Jennings
4: Josh Coulson
5: Brian Saah
6: David Partridge
7: Simon Russell
8: Adam Miller
9: Danny Wright
10: Daryl Clare
11: Robbie Willmott
12: Rory McAuley
14: Conal Platt
15: Paul Carden
16: TBA (Centre-forward)
17: Sam Ives
18: Daryl Coakley
19: Adam Marriott
20: Jordan Patrick
26: Blaine Hudson
27: Luke Berry
28: Jack Eades
29: Liam Hughes
30: Simon Brown
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