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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runningout added 00:16 - Jul 31 get over it! Think we know the score. I'm sure our illustrious owner knows he has made booboos by going for half hearted transfers, instead of spending bigger on quality and football know how. Now we in the poo. Got to show some as fans and burn a bit of negativity
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BlueMachines added 06:00 - Jul 31 Tractor cam. We got 3.5 not 8. Compare that to 20. Cheap. After 1 full season we probably triggered very few additional payments at all. It's doesn't matter anyway. 3.5 or 20, none of it gets reinvested so let's not argue!
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BlueMachines added 06:00 - Jul 31 Tractor cam. We got 3.5 not 8. Compare that to 20. Cheap. After 1 full season we probably triggered very few additional payments at all. It's doesn't matter anyway. 3.5 or 20, none of it gets reinvested so let's not argue!
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Dozzells_Bobblehat added 06:45 - Jul 31 ITFCSince73 I'm not arguing that . I pointed out that Rotherham got rid of 14 players when Dolphin said they hadn't released anyone . Bit of a difference! And to you that Pompey had only paid a fee for for two . I think any team in the land that is relegated makes cut backs .
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Umros added 07:12 - Jul 31 We are 9 million adrift from relegation but I'm sorry these extra windfalls were never accounted for or in the mix and should have been used to improve our squad rather than becoming lost mitigating this shortfall. The lack of ambition is appalling.
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ITFCsince73 added 08:57 - Jul 31 As many happy clappers pointed out a few weeks back....were 2nd favourites to go up. Bookies were right last year and never get it wrong. Well happy clappers, we've slid at a rate of knots since then and continue to. The bookies never get it wrong, I do agree with though.
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Naylorsboots added 09:12 - Jul 31 This 9 million shortfall is down to Evans mismanagement of the club. Its his awful approach that has seen us where we are now. Why people keep banging on about him having to cover that l dont know. I have no sympathy for the man. He hasnt a clue when it comes to running this club. But he sure as hell knows how to string some along on here.
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Bluearmy_81 added 09:24 - Jul 31 Never a truer word said Naylorsboots. #Evansout
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ITFCsince73 added 09:41 - Jul 31 Even relegation to L2 wouldn't change some on here. I can only imagine it must be young ish supporters. They have known no different. When I was younger the thought of playing teams we now face, would have been totally unimaginable. The young see us on a par with Lincoln, wycombe and Bury fc. I still look on these clubs as having a faulty towers set up. The manager combining various club jobs, like washing the kit and supplying the half time oranges. Luckily I have my memories of the great ITFC days. Nowadays I pin all my Hope's on winning 3 on the bounce, against the faulty towers clubs above.

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TimmyH added 09:51 - Jul 31 Makes me laugh how some supporters on here are saying how we sell players on so cheaply but if memory serves me rightly quite a few on here were happy to let him be sold as he was injury prone (yes another who seems now fairly injury free)...it was all a bit strange to me why we sold him in the first place, a passing centre back with age on his side and now look whats become of him!...probably Evans needed some more money.

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Bluearmy_81 added 09:54 - Jul 31 I don't think it is all youngsters 73. Bafflingly I think there are many here that still back Evans or at least apologise for him that are old enough to have known the glory days, that's what makes it all the more baffling. I'm 43 so don't remember the fa or uefa cup but do remember us going down from division 1. Bar 2 short spells in the prem it's been downhill since.

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rabbit added 10:00 - Jul 31 So you admit it then bluearmy_81 its not all down to Evans, thankfully the penny has dropped. Although looking at some of your emoji comments I find it hard to believe you are 43!
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Warkys_Tash added 10:14 - Jul 31 Portsmouth had a 20% sell on clause yet we only negotiated less than 10%. - Says it all really!
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Bluearmy_81 added 10:15 - Jul 31 The last 12 years have been rabbit! What an out and out failure...
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Marinersnose added 10:51 - Jul 31 It saddens me that having supported the club since the mid 70's when as a result of a fantastic manager in Bobby Robson and exceptional board and back room staff the Team became a force across Europe. We still have some passionate and talented staff who are producing top young players who are being given away at sale prices then sold on for huge fees.I don't believe any of these decisions were made by the managers at the time but by someone who holds the purse strings. Keane McCarthy and Hurst were all castigated for selling our prodigious talent. When is someone who has a passion for the club going to get us out of this spiral. The club is becoming a market place for cheap players.

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BeattiesBackPocket added 11:15 - Jul 31 Financial fair play is a farce! I think we all get it however plenty of clubs flounce those rules every season then all they get a a player ban! Guess what too late because you've already signed the players you wanted in the first place! Also ffp tell me how do clubs like Bristol city Huddersfield's etc afford to pay 4 or 5 million for players with LOWER average gates as us!? Because their owners stump up that cash! Bristol Cory manager was on sky sports last night he said they can even afford to keep Webster they don't need to see but can still buy so how can a club like Ipswich who had a wage bill equivalent to burton Albion last two seasons clearly saving more money than Bristol not afford to buy anyone then but we have to sell? You say don't blame the owner but I'm sorry where's the money going then? Oh yeah 500,000 on Evans wage a million on micks etc come on then instead of moaning about the people who moan at Evans and spout ffp etc etc tell us how the above clubs I've nentioned can afford to do what they do

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ITFCsince73 added 13:47 - Jul 31 Totally agree Beattie.. Maybe when that's explained. I'm intrested in how the likes of Posh can pay a player 20k per week. Rotherham have a bigger playing budget than us. And Pompey and Coventry pay better wages than us. Along with Doncaster. Pompey currently laughing of enquiries for there star striker.
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ITFCsince73 added 14:02 - Jul 31 After Freddie...I'm struggling to think of a player in the 1st team squad who cost a fee. FFP will be ok if we bought 1 player in with a fee attached, 2 players at a push...? At least then well have 3 players at the club that cost something. FFP is a farce. Cant spend beyond your means....that's easy just don't spend anything.
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algarvefan added 18:23 - Jul 31 All I'm going to say is look at Bury. You may think Evans should spend, but would that guarantee success? I don't think so, lets wait and see what happens folks, but remember negativity and the harping on about spending what we don't really have, will not bring us anything. I think we should just support the team and stop playing politics on here.
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Bluearmy_81 added 18:46 - Jul 31 All I'm going to say is look at villa. Or Wolves. Or Bournemouth. Or Brighton. Well run clubs that have achieved under a committed, present and interested owner. Stop setting the bar so low for ITFC and being so ultra conservative. No, spending does not guarantee success (ask Derby) but it pretty much does guarantee that you stay competitive and don't become the laughing stock of the season.

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Linkboy13 added 22:26 - Jul 31 Questions need to be ask how it is players with long term injuries seem to move on from Ipswich and play regularly for their new clubs bearing in mind the latest publicity of the aledged poor treatment of a youth team player surely this cannot be a coincidence are our players getting the correct advice and treatment i wonder i would like to hear other people's opinions on this site.

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