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.