Originally Posted by Cormac Byrne
Name: David McGoldrick
Club: Ipswich Town
Age: 26 (Born November 29, 1987)
Weight: 11st 9lb (73.92kg)
Height: 6ft (1.83m)
In 2014, McGoldrick – who is adopted – discovered that he was eligible to play for Ireland after researching his family tree and finding his birth grandmother was born in Ireland.
He turned down an approach from Gordon Strachan to play for Scotland.
The striker has five championship goals to his credit this season, five fewer than Ireland and Ipswich team mate Daryl Murphy.
McGoldrick began his football career as a trainee with Notts County and made his senior debut in 2004.
He was signed by Southampton a year later for an undisclosed fee but his first team opportunities were scarce and he was loaned out to Notts county, Bournemouth and Port Vale before being sold to Nottingham Forest in £1m in 2009.
He joined Sheffield Wednesday on loan in September 2011, and was loaned out to Coventry City in August 2012. After a successful spell at Coventry he was then loaned to Ipswich Town during the 2013 January transfer window with a view to a permanent deal in the summer.
He has formed a very strong partnership with Daryl Murphy with the Tractor Boys.
He was also the subject of a £5m bid from Leicester City during the summer but Ipswich wanted £8m and the deal fell through.