The Blues look set to receive a third sell-on windfall of the summer with Brighton and Hove Albion widely reported to have made a £20 million - plus add-ons totalling a further £5 million - offer to Bristol City for ex-Town centre-half Adam Webster.

Talks between the clubs are said to be ongoing with the Seagulls confident of landing the 24-year-old, who would become their record signing.

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, Town appear likely to receive an initial sum just above £1 million mark with further cash after top-ups.

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.

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.

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sumnertime67 added 19:35 - Jul 30 So we received £3.5 million last summer with the fee potentially rising to £8 million. Now that hes sold does that mean we never actually get the 8million? We will get what we have received so far (which is probably significantly less than the 8million ) plus 10% sell on . if this is teh case it feels like we are being completely short changed. It should be we get the 8million as promised and 10% sell on fee on top

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Cakeman added 19:46 - Jul 30 The World's gone made if Webster can attract a fee like that. Very ordinary defender.
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WhoisJimmyJuan added 19:51 - Jul 30 Not seen much of Evans lately either have we? All the five point plans and empty promises. He has his own rules under the initials FFP. It cannot be denied that under his leadership we went down to League one and not up to the Premiership. He's never shown passion or enthusiasm for our club, letting manager after manager struggle along, clapping politely from the stands when we lose. He has ultimately failed our club.

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Cloddyseedbed added 20:09 - Jul 30 When Robson was manager players that left the club were rarely successful. Now nearly all the players that are let go or moved on all seem to go on and make names for themselves. What has gone wrong with our club and why does it continue to be so mismanaged from the top? We don't get the best out of players, other clubs do!
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 20:16 - Jul 30 Bluearmy arrogant p***k
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Bluearmy_81 added 20:20 - Jul 30 🤣😂🤣😘😘
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blueplumber added 20:29 - Jul 30 It's clearly not about money for Evan's. Could have had a fee for bart... but no we will let them have him for nothing?? ? I just don't get it
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blueplumber added 20:33 - Jul 30 I don't get it. Could have got a few hundred thousand for bart but we let him have him for a year??? Maybe Evan's isn't all money orientated
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Dolphinblue added 20:38 - Jul 30 Bobblehat..take a chill pill 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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BerlinBlue added 20:41 - Jul 30 Best of luck to Webster in the Premier League. I have a feeling he'll take to it like a duck to water.
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ITFCsince73 added 21:03 - Jul 30 Burleysglorydays. You would still have the same outlook if we were playing National League. Now that I find baffling....
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ITFCsince73 added 21:07 - Jul 30 Has anyone mentioned the rules to Pompey or Posh or Rotherham etc etc etc. All have invested and improved their squads.
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Bluearmy_81 added 21:14 - Jul 30 Shhh 73 you mustnt doubt the ways of God Evans. He is above criticism and reproach and we must all be very thankful that we all exist.
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ITFCsince73 added 21:23 - Jul 30 Were currently waiting on a forward with a dismal goals record who's on the treatment table. What's there not to be excited about.....
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 21:26 - Jul 30 ITFCSINCE73 Rotherham have got five free transfers and bought one player for £500k . Portsmouth also several freebies , only paid for two players . But hey don't let facts get in the way of a rant Get your facts right . Bluearmy do you actually read other posts ?
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Dolphinblue added 21:28 - Jul 30 Waiting on a forward whose injured whilst theres no centre back in sight! GET YR FINGER OUT EVANS!
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Bluearmy_81 added 21:29 - Jul 30 Bobble, are you trying to tell me other league one clubs pay real money for players?!!! Shut up, I don't believe you!! You're living in fantasy land man! 😂
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Dolphinblue added 21:31 - Jul 30 So Rotherham signed 6 but released none.....Itfc signed 4 (2 of which are goalies) released 14 🤔 and Portsmouth spending 100,000s on players 🤔...think itfc1973s points stand 🤔
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 21:40 - Jul 30 Jesus Dolphin your as bad as them !!! Rotherham released/sold 14 players this year !!! 14 . Two short planks .
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Bluearmy_81 added 21:41 - Jul 30 Bobble has actually managed to contradict himself in his own post attempting to (once again) defend Evans. Hilarious 😂🤣
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 21:51 - Jul 30 Bluearsey - how so ?
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Saxonblue74 added 21:52 - Jul 30 So a player like Webster (marginally above your average championship standard) attracts that kind of fee and people expect us to buy our way up the leagues? Then there's the wages to consider in a week where Gareth Bale came close to selling his career for £1m a week? All trickles down through the leagues. The game has gone mad and it's taking a good few fans with it by all accounts!

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HARRY10 added 22:11 - Jul 30 "Ask someone in 1964 if they thought they'd be European Champions in 1981. " What ? We won the UEFA Cup, not the European Cup.
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ITFCsince73 added 23:32 - Jul 30 Bobble Its not the transfer fees paid by other L1 clubs, it's the investment in huge wages to get players in. If you want quality free transfers, you have to pay according. Boyd going to posh on 20k per week is an example. Other L1 clubs are investing in there squads...not us.
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bobble added 23:53 - Jul 30 theres one sure way to increase a town players value and make them play better...sell them
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