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Town Have Won Harrison Chase - Ipswich Town News

TWTD can confirm that Town is the club Bristol Rovers striker Ellis Harrison is set to join for a fee we understand to be £700,000. The move is likely to be finalised as soon as today.

Harrison was left out of the Pirates side for their friendly against Forest Green Rovers on Saturday with manager Darrell Clarke refusing to comment why afterwards.

Clarke subsequently confirmed the 5ft 11in tall frontman would be departing for a Championship club with the Bristol Post speculating that his destination was Portman Road rather than Blackburn Rovers, who had previously been eyeing the Newport-born frontman. TWTD sources have confirmed that that is the case.

The fee includes further top-ups which could ultimately take the sum Rovers receive above £1 million.

The 24-year-old appears set to travel to Portman Road today to complete the formalities relating to the move. He will become Paul Hurst's fourth signing and the second he has paid a fee for after Gwion Edwards, who joined from Peterborough for a similar figure last week, joining free recruit Jordan Roberts and season-long loanee Trevoh Chalobah.

Harrison came through the youth system at the Memorial Stadium and has played all his senior games for the Pirates aside from a short spell on loan at Hartlepool where he made two starts early in 2016.

Last season the Newport-born forward scored 14 goals. In total for Bristol Rovers he has made 116 starts and 88 sub appearances, netting 49 times.

Harrison joining the Blues is likely to increase speculation that Martyn Waghorn could be set to move on, however, it's likely Hurst would have been looking for a new frontman anyway with David McGoldrick having departed in May at the end of his contract.

Over the weekend, Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder confirmed that his club - with whom McGoldrick is coincidentally on trial - had made a second bid for Waghorn, understood to be £5 million, while Derby, Middlesbrough and Birmingham have all been eyeing the 28-year-old, who scored 16 goals and recorded 11 assists last season. Nottingham Forest have been linked with the former Rangers, Sunderland, Leicester and Wigan man.

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