Manager Peter Jackson's plans for the forthcoming season are continuing to gather pace with Irish U21 international striker Chris Fagan joining the Club on a two-year contract.

A talented forward, Fagan (20) was released at the end of the 2007/08 season by Manchester United and despite receiving offers from several Football League clubs he opted to join up with the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain having impressed during the Academy's initial trials.

He becomes the first player from the Glenn Hoddle Academy, which was set up in 2008 by the former England international to give young players who just failed to make the grade at top professional clubs a second chance, to sign a permanent contract with a Football League club.

We have beaten off the challenge from a number of clubs in Spain and the rest of Europe to secure his services and his move will be finalised once he's passed a medical and all the necessary paperwork has been completed.

Fagan joined Manchester United's academy as a 16-year-old from Home Farm and was a member of the side which finished runners-up to Liverpool in the 2006/07 FA Youth Cup. Having represented his country at U17 and U19 level, he was called up to the U21 squad for the first time in February when he was an unused substitute in a friendly against Germany and won his first cap a month later against Spain. A second cap followed in Ireland's UEFA 2011 qualifying match against Turkey.

A trial spell with Huddersfield Town towards the end of last season saw him bag a hat-trick on his debut for the Terriers' second string whilst he finished the campaign in the Scottish Premier League at Hamilton Academical, although his appearances with the Accies were limited to reserve team football.