St Johnstone skipper Jason Kerr is set to complete a £600,000 move to Wigan.
The 24-year-old started the day heading to London to sign for Charlton, but their League One rivals came in with a last-gasp rival bid to snap him up.
Kerr, who captained Saints to a League Cup and Scottish Cup double last season, is in the final year of his deal at McDiarmid Park.
And with that in mind, Saints chairman Steve Brown has decided to cash in and take the money on offer.
Kerr came through the Saints youth setup, having signed for the Perth club as a 16-year-old, and will go down in history as one of their greatest skippers following last season’s heroics.
Wigan have been beset by off-field problems in recent seasons but have found stability under new owner Talal Mubarak Al-Hammad so are now one of the most ambitious clubs in League One.
Steve Brown letting us down, kick him out from Charlton TV!
He would have been straight in to the starting line up I reckon. We aren't gonna recover from that one - if we thought he was signing this AM I cant see us moving fast enough to get a player of equivalent quality so quickly. Should have tied it up and put it to bed ages ago.
For anyone interested, this account not only appears to have got quite a lot right, but it is also followed by Pete O’Rourke the sky transfer guy, but it has very little followers for some reason. Worth a punt for the next few hours!
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Taylor and Stockley would bully the shite out of them on the pitch
him and Stockers up top would be sublime.
shameless I would welcome Lyle Taylor back with open arms post, sorry fellow addicks