US Ma­jor League Soc­cer's clubs FC Dal­las and Toron­to FC are said to have joined the hunt for bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic cap­tain and T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Ker­ry Bap­tiste. The 28-year-old Bap­tiste net­ted a record 48 goals last sea­son to guide the East­ern Li­ons to five ti­tles do­mes­ti­cal­ly and his ef­forts have now at­tract­ed the at­ten­tion of MLS duo along with Eng­lish Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion club, Ip­swich Town.

With re­gards to the in­ter­est shown by the North Amer­i­can clubs, Bap­tiste's agent, An­dre For­tune, of Sports Man­age­ment Group of the USA, said, "FC Dal­las and Toron­to FC are both in­ter­est­ed in Bap­tiste and have wel­comed tri­als for the play­er. How­ev­er we feel that Bap­tiste has done ex­treme­ly well and de­serves a con­tract. So at the mo­ment, we are work­ing on get­ting him a con­tract." "He (Bap­tiste) is sched­uled for tri­al at Ip­swich, so we will al­so have to see how that goes," added For­tune.

The nip­py mid­field­er turned strik­er was sched­uled to join Ip­swich on a one-week tri­al un­der man­ag­er Roy Keene from Feb­ru­ary 10, how­ev­er it has now been put back un­til af­ter Car­ni­val. "I'm al­ways on the look out for play­ers to add to my squad as well and if a play­er be­comes avail­able that I think can bring some ex­tra qual­i­ties then we will look at that," said Keene this week, com­ment­ing on pos­si­ble move­ments at his club.

The win­dow for Bap­tiste to earn a deal at Port­man Road may have opened wider af­ter the club opt­ed not to of­fer an ex­ten­sion or new deal to on­loan Crys­tal Palace strik­er and fel­low T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Stern John af­ter his deal ex­pired last week.

At Ip­swich, Bap­tiste will train along­side Ip­swich mid­field­er Car­los Ed­wards, an­oth­er T&T in­ter­na­tion­al and for­mer De­fence Force play­er. De­spite al­ways on the look­out for play­ers, Keene al­so men­tioned on the club's of­fi­cial Web site that he is fine with his cur­rent squad which means that Bap­tiste will have to do his best at im­press­ing the for­mer Man­ches­ter Unit­ed star. "I know a few clubs are hop­ing to have me, but I'm fo­cused on the Ip­swich tri­al at hand. I will do my best at the club to im­press the coach­es," as­sured Bap­tiste.