Nigel Clough made his first foray into the transfer market as Derby boss with the January capture of highly-rated Motherwell striker Chris.

Porter agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal to move south from the Scottish Premier League club at the end of the month after the Rams beat off competition from other Championship clubs.

He was a prolific striker north of the border and he is now looking to transfer that form to the Coca-Cola Championship with Derby County.

He scored 27 goals in just a season and a half with Motherwell since heading to Scotland in the summer of 2007.

Wigan-born Porter's last English club was Oldham Athletic, where he hit 31 goals in two seasons, following 20 with Bury where he made his breakthrough in 2003.

Oldham took him to Boundary Park in the summer of 2005 for £150,000 and saw him bag a personal haul of 22 League 1 strikes in his final campaign before Motherwell came calling.

Porter is a powerful figure who stands at over six feet tall and weighs more than 13 stone.

He made an impressive opening to his Derby County career with three goals in his first two starts, but was held up by injury and missed the last eight weeks of the season.

A hip problem sustained in pre-season 2009 resulted in the frontman going under the knife - ruling him out until late 2009.