DION Charles is on the verge of a £750,000 move to Huddersfield Town with Ian Evatt admitting last night that the striker has played his last game for Bolton Wanderers.

The Northern Ireland international did not travel with the team to Lincoln City, where an Aaron Collins goal was enough to send them through to the quarter-finals for the third consecutive season.

Charles is expected to be revealed as a Huddersfield player by the end of the week in a deal which would also carry significant bonuses in the event the Terries are promoted to the Championship.

Top scorer in each of the last two seasons with 20-plus goals, the 29-year-old Charles has fallen off the pace over the last 12 months and has recently dropped behind Collins and John McAtee in the pecking order.

He leaves having made 149 appearances for the club, scoring 57 times, and in a deal that Evatt believes was the right one for the club.

He said after the game: “The one thing we have always tried to do here as a collective, myself and the board – and it’s always a subjective industry – but we have tried to do right by the club, financially.

“We had an offer for Dion and that’s as much as I can say at the moment.

“We have all had input into it. And that is what we do at this football club, we stick together, and there are a lot of decision makers in there, and Dion Charles is one of them too, we mustn’t forget that.

“We came together and decided it as an acceptable offer. We 100 per cent need to sign a replacement and as I have said all along there will be ins and outs in this transfer window and I want to freshen the squad up. We will continue to look to do that.”

On the win against Lincoln, Evatt said he was pleased to see his players respond after their defeat at Rotherham United at the weekend.

“We’d like to be in the position where we’re not responding but this group always do and I thought it was a really good away performance. We had a large amount of control, I don’t think other than the set plays and the direct play they didn’t really cause us many problems and I don’t know how many saves Luke (Southwood) really had to make.

“The goal was actually really good play and that’s why we play the way we do – we draw them under the ball and once we do create that space get in behind them quick, and Aaron Collins is a man on form at the moment.

“I asked the players to come out and show our DNA, what we have created. All of the players we signed with the exception of George Thomason, who we inherited but have developed, have all signed here because of the way we play. I wanted them to go out there and show that and I thought they did tonight.”