Despite looking likely to join Fulham only recently, Dwight Gayle is now Bristol City bound after Crystal Palace accepted a bid believed to be in the region of £6million according to Sky Sports sources.

Following Patrick Bamford’s and Conor Wickham’s arrivals from Chelsea and Sunderland respectively, Alan Pardew acknowledged that the 25-year-old would struggle for first team football. Gayle was rumoured to have been on rival Championship outfits Middlesbrough and Wolves’ radars but both clubs looked elsewhere for options to bolster their front line. The former are now closing in on David Nugent and the latter completed a deal for Adam le Fondre.

Brought in from Peterborough in 2013, the former Arsenal youth’s goal-per-game ratio may not have been as eye-catching as it was when donning the jersey in loan spells at non-league side, Bishop’s Stortford, and the Posh, but he wrote the headlines last term. Bagging a brace at Selhurst Park, the striker all but denied Liverpool the Premier League title.

It is believed that The Eagles could gain an extra £2million from the sale, with add-ons included in the paperwork and the player-in-question will no doubt welcome the return of first team football, never quite given a chance in London.

The ‘energetic, hardworking, pacey striker’ managed 54 appearances for the side, only 24 of which were starts, however, his qualities will prove invaluable to the Robins who look so consolidate themselves in second tier subsequent to promotion from League One.