Derby expect Liam Dickinson to join Leeds on loan when the transfer market reopens next week.
Red tape prevented move before transfer deadline
Derby County expect Liam Dickinson to join Leeds United on loan when the transfer market reopens next week.
Dickinson had been lined up for a move to Elland Road for the rest of the season on deadline day, only for the paperwork to be submitted to the Football League 14 minutes after the 5pm cut-off.
However, Rams chairman Adam Pearson sees no reason why the striker will not link up with the League One promotion hopefuls after the weekend.
"I'm sure it will get sorted out," Pearson told the
Yorkshire Evening Post. "We'd expect him to go there when the loan market opens."
Exceptional circumstances
Meanwhile, Leeds' chief executive Shaun Harvey has expressed his disappointment that the Football League were not flexible in allowing the move to go through on Monday.
Harvey told the club's
official website: "It is disappointing that the Football League stuck rigidly to the 5pm deadline when you take into account the exceptional circumstances that prevailed.
"The Premier League made arrangements for their clubs to register players after the deadline and if the Football League had adopted the same approach then Liam Dickinson would be a Leeds player until the end of the season."
Dickinson has yet to make his debut for Derby since joining from Stockport County last summer, but has enjoyed loan spells at Huddersfield and Blackpool.
Whites boss Simon Grayson signed the 23-year-old while still in charge at Blackpool and the forward scored four goals in seven appearances.
