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Town Have Won Harrison Chase Monday, 23rd Jul 2018 08:57
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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Give him good service from out wide.......hence why we have Gwion Edwards. Waghorn is such an intelligent player, we need him too. Hopefully lots more signings to come.
Could be a good signing - and 3 mil left in funds (from our sales alone ) Just hope the manager gets it.?? on past history i dont really trust ME on this front though
15 players out and 4,5 mil in sales & 400k from WC (one big wage Didz)
4 Players in - 2 cost 1.4 mil , 1 loan fee? & 1 free
Sounds like a good signing for only 700k as well. Can't see him being a replacement for Waghorn so think we are all done now in terms of the attacking options. Possibly could do with one more winger and one or two central defenders (depends if Hurst sees Knudsen and Spence as central defenders or not).
Good stuff. £700k isn't as much as first reported either. I just hope he's signing to complement Waghorn and not as his replacement. I like how Hurst is using his budget on young hungry players on permanent deals rather than loans for a year like McCarthy did.
If we are going to be flinging in crosses from everywhere this season, surely we need a target man? I dont see anyone in our forward line who plays that position naturally, including Waghorn, and this new guy definately doesnt.
On the clips there, looks like the lad has some terrific pace and awareness in the box. If this can be translated to play at Championship level he should be indeed a very good signing.
PN has been playing Waggy in Didz' no 10 role, so I am optimistic that Harrison has been signed to play as a lone striker ahead of, not instead of, The Wagmeister.
Crazy, he might not be huge but he has scored a good number of headed goals. He looks very quick too. David Johnson mark 2 wasn't tall but had great spring in those huge thighs of his. Could Sears be in his way out now? Morris, Folami and Drinan waiting in the wings.
He is a replacement for McGoldrick; which should mean far greater availability for a fraction of the wages & at a much better age. Different type of a player, but we have a few midfielders who could provide a lot of what Didz could in that linking role, so overall a positive exchange in my book. Now if Waghorn is sold, we have to go again & will have to spend in order to bring some proven Championship quality into the side to replace the ability & experience we'd be losing.
We cannot afford ‘proven Championship quality' and I don't understand why anybody ever uses that phrase with regard to our transfers in? I cannot remember the last time we brought in a player that had ‘proven Championship quality' so I don't understand where anybody gets the idea we are going to start doing so now? If we sell Waghorn for £10 million we will not go and buy somebody else for the same amount.
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