Rotherham United complete season-long loan deal for Derby County winger

The 29-year-old winger will spend the rest of the campaign at the AESSEAL New York Stadium and will hope to make his debut against Norwich on Saturday.

Jozefzoon has been allowed to come to South Yorkshire as he has no future at the Rams, where his contract expires at the end of the season.

He has been left out of Phillip Cocu's 25-man squad and Millers boss Paul Warne was quick to swoop.

“I knew of him at Brentford, I have seen him play at Derby,” he said. “We had many options for many weeks and then it was highlighted the fact he was available and that accelerated our dream of getting him.

“I thought he was out of our reach but a lot of work by our recruitment team as always made it a bit more feasible, along with Derby's help.

“I like him because from a footballing point of view he can play in three different positions, he can play on the right, the left or No10.

“When he is at his best he is confident, he can run past people, he has got a good work ethic. He has got a bit of guile.”

His arrival at Rotherham is timely as he will fill the hole left by Ogbene, who is out for four months with a knee injury.

Warne said he wanted a like-for-like replacement for his winger or would have had to change his style of play.

“We always look for competition for places anyway and Chieo started the season really well, we were always looking for that, but it intensified the search with Chieo being out for so long.

“We just lacked that dynamic part of Chieo's game and going forward we definitely needed something else. I think Flo will be a great addition.

“We have got him until the end of the season but with all loan deals there is the chance for the parent club to take him back.

“If he does really, really well for us and sets the world alight we might lose him but that's the risk we take when we loan players.

“Hopefully he has a great season and gets back to his best and opens up opportunities for him at the end of the season.”

There could be players heading out of the club before Friday's 5pm transfer deadlines, with several not in Warne's plans.

Warne is not expecting any of his main men to leave.

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