LEEDS UNITED are battling it out with Norwich City to land loan keeper Fraser Forster for 2010-11 – according to reports.
The highly-rated Newcastle United stopper, 22, recently completed a stand-out loan spell with the Canaries, featuring 38 times to help the East Anglians clinch the League One title ahead of Leeds.
Forster has since returned to parent club Newcastle, but is behind Steve Harper and Dutch Under-21 international Tim Krul in the pecking order on Tyneside and is tipped to be farmed out on loan again.
Leeds are rumoured to be in the market for him, while also being linked with Arsenal's young Polish custodian Wojciech Szczesny.
Hexham-born Forster, who had a brief spell at Bristol Rovers at the start of 2009-10, kept an impressive 20 clean sheets in the league for the Canaries.
He was one clean sheet away from breaking Carrow Road legend Kevin Keelan's record, with City boss Paul Lambert hailing him as a "world-class keeper in the making."
Ironically, a rare aberration by the keeper gifted Jermaine Beckford a late winner in City's 2-1 televised loss to Leeds in October, but it represented a rare blip from Forster, who took the club's players' player of the year award.
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