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Todd is on the transfer list at Ewood Park because of his lack of opportunities in the first team following new summer signings, he hasn’t featured in the first few games, but last season he made a total of nineteen appearances (fourteen of them starts) and was in the side on the last day of last season.
The 28 year-old has been at Ewood Park since last summer but started his career in the north east with Middlesbrough as an apprenticeship at a time when his dad Colin was manager. He made only a few first team appearances on Teesside and enjoyed a short loan spell with Swindon before his dad paid £250,000 to take him to Bolton at the start of their 1995/96 Premiership season.
He made a total of 84 league appearances at Bolton as they flitted in and out of the Premiership but left under a cloud shortly after Sam Allardyce replaced his dad as manager. He moved on to Charlton after Alan Curbishley paid £750,000 for him.
He went straight into their side and played his part as they won promotion back to the Premiership and played over half the games in their first season back in the top division.
More problems saw him out of the side the following season and he spent the last two months out on loan at Grimsby where he made his one and only appearance against the Clarets in the match that was a major blow to our play off hopes as we conceded three goals in the first half.
It was then that Graeme Souness paid out another £750,000 to bring him back to the north west and he played his part last season.
Now he gets his chance to move a few miles east down the M65 to play for the Clarets. In doing so he becomes the first player to move directly between the clubs since we signed Peter Devine in the summer of 1984 but by then Devine had been released at Ewood.
But this is the first time the clubs have actually done business since Adam Blacklaw moved in the opposite direction in a £15,000 transfer in July 1967.
Not as though that matters and it was disappointing that Barry Kilby even felt the need to say, "It’s ridiculous that people should worry about that." Barry is right on that and all that matters to us now is that Andy Todd is playing in a Claret & Blue shirt and doing his best for Burnley.
We wish him all the best during his time at Turf Moor.