Middlesbrough have agreed to pay around £2m for Crystal Palace midfielder Ben Watson, but another Premiership club is now showing an interest, reports the Evening Gazette. Eagles' boss Neil Warnock has admitted that there is fresh interest in the 23-year-old.

"Another Premier League club has come in for Ben," he said. "So the deal with Middlesbrough is far from being completed."

When asked who the other interested parties were, Warnock said: "I can tell you that West Ham and Fulham aren't.

"We've agreed fees with a couple of clubs and obviously Middlesbrough have got the opportunity to speak with him first.

"I don't know if he's going to speak to anybody else but once we agreed a fee other clubs can quite rightly match the fee and talk to him.

"I'm pleased for Ben and for the club and the chairman. We had a derogatory offer of £500,000 from QPR and early on in the season it was unsettling for Ben.

"But we've got a realistic valuation now. I think £2million is realistic for someone of Ben's quality. I'll be sad to see him go, he's going to be a very exciting player."