According to Sky Sports, Southampton FC also interested in trying to sign Coventry City's Lukas Jutkiewicz.
Southampton have already failed with a bid to take City's leading goalscorer on loan and Nigel Adkins is being reported as wanting the forward as his number one priority when the transfer window re-opens on Sunday.
Southampton will face competition from Middlesbrough and it could boil down to a matter of who offers what deal in order to prise Jutkiewicz away from a club which does not really wish to sell him.