Town winger Cameron Stewart is reported to be taking legal action against his former loan club Leeds United after a permanent switch to the Whites broke down last summer.
According to the Daily Star, Stewart, who is currently on loan at Barnsley, and his legal team will attend an FA arbitration hearing along with Leeds tomorrow claiming that the West Yorkshire club owe him £800,000 in unpaid wages.
The 23-year-old and Leeds signed a three-year deal which was due to come into effect last summer at the end of his contract with Hull City following a 93-day loan at Elland Road.
However, by the time the contract was lodged with the Football League not all the signatories were still at the club, including former managing director David Haigh, who had moved on in the April after falling out with club president Massimo Cellino.
Cellino then refused to get the paperwork re-signed, pulled the plug on the deal and now claims the contract is invalid.
The figure being claimed is the difference between the cash Stewart is earning at Town and the higher sum he would have received at Leeds.
The former Manchester United trainee has made only two FA Cup sub appearances for the Blues since signing a three-year deal in July after the breakdown of the Leeds switch. He has made three starts and one sub appearance since joining the Tykes in March.
Speaking shortly after his Oakwell move, Stewart admitted that he may not have a future at Town but hoped that that wouldn’t be the case.
"Until somebody tells me no, I’ll try and chase that," he said. "But I think you’ve got to be realistic sometimes and when things don’t go as well as they [might], sometimes you’ve got to be prepared to move on.”