{"id":579423,"date":"2021-01-18T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=579423"},"modified":"2021-01-18T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:16:19","slug":"huddersfield-town-close-to-deal-for-derby-countys-duane-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/18\/huddersfield-town-close-to-deal-for-derby-countys-duane-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield Town Close to Deal for Derby County\u2019s Duane Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/huddersfield-town\/\" target=\"_self\">Huddersfield Town<\/a> are close to completing a deal to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/47a050ed\/Duane-Holmes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duane Holmes<\/a> to the club according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/duane-holmes-transfer-huddersfield-town-19647048\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Duane Holmes Close to Completing Huddersfield Move<\/h2>\n<h3>The Midfielder Has Previously Played for Huddersfield<\/h3>\n<p>The 26-year-old has previously played for the Terriers but only featured 22 times in the three seasons he was at the club before being sold to Scunthorpe United.<\/p>\n<p>After impressing for the League Two side, he was snapped up by Derby County, where he has continued to go from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p>He featured in 33 games for the Rams last season but this year he has been limited to a total of just seven starts in the league for the side so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/15\/wayne-rooney-appointed-derby-county-boss-on-a-permanent-basis\/\" target=\"_self\">New boss Wayne Rooney<\/a> may be willing to part with the player it seems, with the Rams and Huddersfield now reportedly agreeing a fee to send him back to his former club.<\/p>\n<h3>Player is a Free Agent in the Summer<\/h3>\n<p>Holmes is a free agent in the summer, with his contract at Pride Park set to expire at the end of the campaign. It means that, if he truly isn\u2019t a part of Rooney\u2019s plans, he needs to cash in on the player while he can &#8211; and it looks like the boss is doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>The central midfielder, who has also had stints at Yeovil Town and Bury, could be just the signing for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/24\/huddersfield-town-head-coach-carlos-corberan-commits-long-term-future\/\" target=\"_self\">Carlos Corberan<\/a>, who wants some new recruitments in the centre of the field for his side during this transfer window.<\/p>\n<h3>Huddersfield Set to Sign Duane Holmes After Medical is Completed<\/h3>\n<p>The United States man has bags of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> experience having played frequently for the Rams since his move there and has also proven he can cut it at this level. Huddersfield then will get a player who is ready to go and make an impact for the Terriers as soon as he completes a deal to join them &#8211; all that is left for the player is the medical and then he shall be a Town player.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Pj3p7sI7RM5rsgI0mDlTbQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1230174302\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Pj3p7sI7RM5rsgI0mDlTbQ',sig:'rIIzR_Bv582QqUMWsGQsWcJ0Yry3MxJZ0b3SsoT6swE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1230174302',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huddersfield Town are close to completing a deal to bring Duane Holmes to the club according to reports. Duane Holmes Close to Completing Huddersfield Move The Midfielder Has Previously Played for Huddersfield The 26-year-old has previously played for the Terriers but only featured 22 times in the three seasons he was at the club before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":579441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1266,33,32,30,7188,28],"tags":[197,5920,695,7728,6017,168,7726,1072,1080,7727,43,37,136],"class_list":["post-579423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-huddersfield-town","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-derby","tag-derby-county","tag-derby-transfer-news","tag-duane-holmes","tag-efl","tag-holmes-huddersfield","tag-huddersfield","tag-huddersfield-town","tag-huddersfield-transfer-news","tag-news","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}