Town look set to receive a windfall with Blackburn reported to have agreed a fee with Huddersfield for ex-Blues striker Jordan Rhodes. The 22-year-old, controversially sold to the Terriers by Roy Keane in the summer of 2009, is set to move for an initial £4.5 million fee which could rise as high as £8 million after milestone clauses are triggered.

The Blues are understood to have received a fee from Huddersfield which ultimately rose to a figure believed to be £850,000 after all the milestone clauses in that deal were met and are due a sell-on percentage understood to be 10% of the Terriers’ profit.

Scotland international Rhodes, who is reported to have already agreed a four-year contract with the Ewood Park club, is set to undergo a medical on Thursday and is expected to be a Blackburn player before the Terriers visit Portman Road on Saturday.

That will mean he misses out on the chance to face his old club and in particular a tussle with his close friend and fellow Town academy alumnus Tommy Smith.

Rhodes followed his father Andy to Portman Road after he was appointed Town's goalkeeper coach in the 2004/05 season, former club Barnsley receiving £5,000 compensation for the 15-year-old striker.

The ex-Kesgrave High School pupil was a regular scorer at all levels for the Blues academy and the reserves as well as for loan clubs but made only 10 senior sub appearances and netted just one goal - above against Cardiff - before being sold to Huddersfield when he was keen to remain at Portman Road and progress his career with Town.

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hodgie1989 added 08:11 - Aug 30 to this day the sale of Jordan Rhodes makes me angry. 1 because I watched the reserve game when he was banging them in left, right and centre and you can tell he had talent. and 2 he was sold for such a little amount and now look, in 3 years his value has increased 5 fold. For these reasons I will always look back at Roy Keane's time in charge as a disappointment.
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TheWizardDeVos added 08:19 - Aug 30 So I make that an initial 365K. Nowhere near enough to heal old wounds. It's a real pity we couldn't bring him 'home' but both the wages and transfer fee make that impossible. Then again, the player himself would probably favour Blackburn for a number of reasons, chief of which the way he was apparently forced out of PR by Lord Vader. All he did was say he didn't like Guinness for petes sake! At least we don't start Saturday a goal down already.

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walberswick added 08:52 - Aug 30 keane never bothered to see if he was any good. lrt's hope itv ask him yje questuon a few times this season.
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JimmyJazz added 10:20 - Aug 30 Yep, I make it about 365K. Quick alert the people who put together the English Dictionary. TWTD have re-defined the term 'windfall'
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raycrawfordswig added 10:25 - Aug 30 Can we get compensation from Keane for being a useless bell-end
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tp1234 added 10:33 - Aug 30 We will only get an extra £265,000! i thought we were talking big bucks. Nice one keano.
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Wickets added 10:34 - Aug 30 And dont forget Keane was quoted as saying "FANS KNOW F ALL" nice one Roy!!
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itfc1981 added 12:05 - Aug 30 Only a fool, backs a fool! Clegg Out!
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IvorFeeling added 13:08 - Aug 30 Phil can we change headline to 'ME set to receive Rhodes windfall'!
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Lightningboy added 13:47 - Aug 30 At least it'll stop him burying us on saturday...personally,i'd rather play for Huddersfield than Blackburn.
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ldnj added 15:53 - Aug 30 Still can't believe the sell-on was only 10% (or 12% I had seen before), that is abysmally low for a young player. Every other transfer I've seen since has had min. 20%. Always thought selling him was a bad idea but the sell-on just means any further fee would be small ... I don't understand how Marcus Evans would allow that as a businessman wanting to get some return on his investment in the club. Unfathomable.

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