HUDDERSFIELD Town have signed James Vaughan from Norwich City.

Huddersfield Town announced the transfer of Vaughan for an undisclosed fee on Wednesday evening.

The former Everton and Norwich City man, 24, has signed a three-year deal at Town.

Vaughan, who scored 14 goals during a loan spell last season that saw him become a firm fans' favourite and scoop the Player of the Year award, will wear the number nine shirt.

Huddersfield Town boss Mark Robins described the capture of Vaughan as 'significant'.

He added: "I know our supporters will be very pleased with after his excellent debut season in a Huddersfield Town shirt. Equally, I’m delighted that we have secured his services.

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“The exciting thing is I believe there is even more to come from James. He is only 24 and although he already has excellent qualities in terms of strength, pace, work rate and much more, I believe he will have learned from the games he played last season and we will benefit from his knowledge and understanding of the style of football we want to play here.

“The club has been very patient to get the right financial deal in its negotiations with Norwich City and I believe we have secured that, but negotiations with James took almost no time at all – that was agreed some weeks ago after Norwich gave us permission to speak to the player. He has shown such a huge desire to come to Huddersfield Town and turned down other, potentially more lucrative, financial offers.

“This transfer is, without doubt, a significant step forward ahead of the new Championship season.”

Vaughan began his career as a trainee at Everton and became the Premier League’s youngest ever goalscorer when he netted on only his second senior appearance against Crystal Palace in April 2005, aged just 16 years and 271 days old.

During his time with the Toffees Vaughan had three loan spells in the Championship with Derby County, Leicester City and Crystal Palace.

He joined Norwich City for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract in summer 2011 and joined Town in late August 2012 on a season-long loan and played a total of 37 games, scoring 14 league goals

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