Town could be about to receive further sell-on windfalls with ex-striker Kieffer Moore reportedly closing in on a £4 million switch from Barnsley to Wigan Athletic, while Adam Webster gets nearer to his £20 million move from Bristol City to Brighton.
The Blues are understood to be due 10 per cent of the profit the Tykes make on Moore, who Town sold to the South Yorkshiremen for £750,000 in January 2018, an estimated £325,000, although his former club Forest Green Rovers will be entitled to a percentage of that figure, perhaps as much as 20 per cent having picked up a six-figure sum from the big frontman's previous move.
Meanwhile, Webster’s widely reported move from the Robins to the Seagulls is getting closer with the clubs said to have agreed a fee believed to be £22 million for the 24-year-old centre-half.
Webster joined the Robins from Town for an initial £3.5 million last summer with the fee potentially rising to £8 million and some of those top-ups are almost certain to have been paid over the course of last season.
TWTD understands the sell-on clause in that deal is just below the previously reported 10 per cent, while Portsmouth would be due 20 per cent of anything the Blues receive as a result of their sell-on from the 2016 move which saw Webster join Town and Matt Clarke move to Fratton Park.
Therefore, if the reported £22 million is the initial fee, Town appear likely to receive an initial sum somewhere between £1 million and £1.5 million after Pompey's percentage has been accounted for with further cash after any top-ups there may be in the Bristol City-Brighton deal.
Bristol City had put a price tag of £30 million on Webster, but even in an inflated market it appeared very unlikely that they would achieve anything approaching that figure for the ex-Pompey man, who has never played in the Premier League.
Town have already received one sell-on windfall from a move to Brighton this summer via Clarke's switch from Portsmouth with the Blues believed to have yielded £770,000 from that switch. Clarke joined Derby on loan for the season earlier today.
Tyrone Mings’s move from AFC Bournemouth to Aston Villa for an initial £20 million plus potentially another £6.5 million saw the Blues receive £1.2 million now with that windfall potentially reaching £1.85 million.
However, with the Blues' income having been reduced by £9 million due to relegation to League One - having made an operating loss of £8.39 million in the financial year to June 2018 in line with most recent Championship seasons - manager Paul Lambert says he's not seen any of it.
"Mings, Clarke, maybe Webster, we haven’t bought one player,” the Blues boss said at this morning's press conference.
"I don’t know if the money has come in, nobody has told me it has come in. I don’t know.”
He added: "Whatever way those deals were structured before I came in, whenever the money comes in, it could be three years' time down the line, four years down the line, it could be now, I don’t know.
"But you haven’t seen one player I’ve bought, I’ve not bought a player.”