Sources: Matej Vydra agrees deal after Middlesbrough and QPR offer
Former Burnley striker Matej Vydra has rejected offers from Championship clubs including Middlesbrough and Queens Park Rangers to agree a deal with Czech Republic champions Viktoria Plzen, sources have told Football Insider.
Vydra, 30, has been a free agent since last summer after seeing out his contract at Burnley.
Middlesbrough and QPR expressed an interest in signing the prolific Championship hit-man, but he has decided to return to his homeland with Plzen.
The six-time Czech champions announced the arrival of Vydra on Monday (19 December), with the striker signing a two-and-a-half-year deal.
The striker most recently played for Burnley in the 2021-22 campaign, scoring two goals and registering four assists in 24 appearances as the Clarets were rejected from the top flight.
He suffered a serious knee injury at the end of that season and is yet to make his return to action.
The 44-cap Czechia international confirmed that he was offered a new deal at Turf Moor - the terms of which fell below his expectations.
Vydra's last appearances in the Championship came at Derby, where he scored 20 second-tier goals in 2017-18 to claim the league's Golden Boot award.
The 30-year-old is a proven quantity at Championship level - scoring 65 goals in 187 games.
QPR are chasing a play-off berth under the stewardship of new manager Neil Critchley, while Middlesbrough sit mid-table after appointing Michael Carrick in October.
Both sides were looking to dip into the free-agent market to add firepower, with Chuba Akpom (nine) and Lyndon Dykes (six) leading the scoring charts for Boro and the Rs respectively.