Exclusive: Rhys Healey to be axed by Huddersfield at end of season

Rhys Healey is set to be released by Huddersfield Town at the end of the season, SportsBoom can exclusively reveal.

Healey, 30, joined the club in January 2024 for a fee reported to be in the region of £2million. 

But his time at the Terriers has been hampered by injury and he was shipped out on loan, until January, to League Two Barrow in an attempt to get him regular game time. 

The striker has featured just once so far this season and been struck down by a frustrating hamstring niggle. 

And our sources have been told that Town, who are bidding for promotion to the Championship this season, now do not see the player in their future plans.

At the time of his loan departure, Huddersfield manager Lee Grant said: “There is no doubting Rhys’ ability when fully match fit, but to reach that level of fitness again he will require a consistent exposure to competitive minutes that he’s unlikely to gain with our strength-in-depth across the frontline.”

“Unfortunately for Rhys he was unable to get the same level of work in as most of the group across pre-season due to his ongoing rehabilitation, and we haven’t been able to factor him into our plans as a result.”

End of the Huddersfield Road 

Healey has showed flashes of his scoring capabilities during his time at the Terriers with five goals in 881 minutes as his time on the pitch was regularly cut short by injury.

The centre-forward started his career at Cardiff City and has played at 10 different clubs.

Eleven goals in 15 league starts for MK Dons in the 2019/2020 season, where he picked up the Players’ Player of the Year Award, earned him a £450,000 transfer to France with Toulouse.

During his stint abroad the marksman struck 40 times in 77 games and helped the club secure promotion back to Lique 1 in the 2021/2022 campaign. 

He returned to England with Championship Watford in 2023 and went one to make just one league start for the club before moving to Huddersfield 18 months later.