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Boro's £9m move for Jordan Rhodes may be BACK ON after the player made a dramatic deadline day U-turn.

The Gazette understands the Blackburn Rovers hitman is on his way to Teesside and is now prepared to accept Boro’s original deal after it seemed the move had collapsed .

Chairman Steve Gibson sensationally pulled the plug on transfer talks with the prolific poacher at the eleventh hour yesterday after the total cost of the package being demanded went above his valuation.

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Boro had agreed to take over the player’s lucrative Blackburn contract - which is reported to be around £35,000 a week and includes a big promotion bonus - and extend it by an extra year.

A fee was agreed with Rovers for Boro’s long time number one striking target and he passed a medical on Saturday.

But the Gazette understands that during talks to finetune the package, Rhodes representatives argued for extra clauses and big bonuses that made the cost prohibitive.

Gibson walked away from the deal leaving Rhodes “baffled and disappointed.”

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But Rhodes has slept on the situation and is now heading to Teesside after the deal was ressurrected.

The Blackburn man will have been under considerable pressure back at Ewood Park after the deal folded.

Rovers boss Paul Lambert had already planned to spend the transfer fee on new players as he reshaped his squad.

“We have to build a team here to get up the league,” he said. “It can’t revolve around one person. It’s got to revolve around an 18, 19, or 20-odd man squad. “We’ve got to get that balance right and that’s what we’ll try and do.”

Boro hope nopw to push the deal through quickly with most of the paperwork and the medical done.

And if it can be sealed then the striker could be set for a fairytale Riverside debut on Saturday against his former club.