Huddersfield Town made £4m profit on star now shining under Frank Lampard | OneFootball

Huddersfield Town made a significant profit from the sale of Jack Rudoni to Coventry City in the summer of 2024.

Last season, Jack Rudoni turned himself into one of the very best players in the Championship after a move from Huddersfield Town to Coventry City in the summer of 2024.

The 24-year-old joined Huddersfield for a fee believed to be in the region of £1 million from AFC Wimbledon in 2022, after showing initially showing promise in League One and then cementing himself as one of the brightest attacking midfielders in his final season in south London.

Rudoni didn’t necessarily hit the ground running in terms of his impact at Huddersfield, albeit he did play in all 46 of their league games in the 2022/23 campaign as they finished 18th with seven different managerial stints throughout that season.

In the 2023/24 campaign, he began to fulfil his potential, despite the fact that Town finished 23rd and were relegated to League One for the first time in over a decade.

As Huddersfield went down, Rudoni had not only shown enough to remain in the Championship but actually shown enough to become the subject of a big money move to Coventry for a fee believed to be in the region of £5 million.

Jack Rudoni becoming the Championship Frank Lampard at Coventry City

Since joining Coventry, Rudoni has come on leaps and bounds in terms of his efficiency and effectiveness, becoming one of the standout players in a Sky Blues side that propelled themselves into the top six and the play-off places in the Championship.

Rudoni scored nine goals and provided 12 assists in 43 appearances in the second-tier last season, springing into life after the appointment of Frank Lampard.

In an interview whilst still at Wimbledon, Rudoni spoke of how he was a Chelsea supporter and, when discussing his footballing idols, mentioned how he ‘always looked up to Frank Lampard’.

Now, as one of the most exciting and effective talents in the Championship, there are notable similarities between the way in which Lampard went about his business, and Rudoni does now.

Appearing late in the box to become a genuine goal threat and a consistent goal-scoring midfielder, Rudoni’s intelligence and overall ability to read a game is perhaps more encouraging than his clearly still high-quality technical ability.

Having missed out on promotion in the play-off semi-finals last season, Lampard will now have a pre-season ahead of his first full season at Coventry, and Rudoni will be paramount to their charge for a return to the top-flight of English football.

Huddersfield Town's regret at Jack Rudoni’s Coventry City rise

The level of technical ability and clear understanding that there was a player there had been showcased at Huddersfield, hence his fairly big-money move to Coventry.

However, chaos in terms of the managerial merry-go-round, a lack of quality throughout the squad and Rudoni notbeing able to pin down an exact best position for his skillset left many surprised by the size of the transfer fee involved.

Huddersfield have not necessarily even steadied themselves yet, either, after a mid-table finish in League One last season. They will hope the appointment of rookie boss Lee Grant can begin to sort things out in West Yorkshire.

Huddersfield have earned themselves a reputation for poor business in the last couple of years but it has to be said, albeit perhaps in large part accidentally, they did some excellent business with Rudoni.

That said, there will be a regret that if they could have got the absolute best out of him then they’d still be in the second-tier and with an asset of a lot more than £5 million on their hands, too.