Terms agreed, medical scheduled – Sheffield Wednesday transfer of former Fulham man getting closer

Wycombe Wanderers stopper David Stockdale emerged as a free transfer target last week as Wednesday boss Darren Moore seeks to find a replacement for last season’s loanee number one Bailey Peacock-Farrell, who has returned to his parent club Burnley.

Stockdale, 36, won the League One golden glove last season as Wycombe reached the final of the play-offs.

And The Star can now reveal that the club have agreed personal terms in principle with the veteran keeper, with a medical scheduled for early this week.

Yorkshire-born Stockdale played every League One match for Wycombe last season – one of only five players to play every minute of the campaign – keeping 18 clean sheets along the way.

Wycombe had offered the goalkeeper a new deal to stay on at Adams Park, but Stockdale looks set to seal a switch to S6 barring any late hitches with the deal.

He is known to be a big personality and his signing would add further experience to a side hoping to achieve automatic promotion to the Championship this time out.

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Stockdale has played at every level of English football from the Premier League to the National League and while at Fulham received an England call-up in 2011 from Fabio Capello, though he never made an appearance.

This comes after The Star revealed that personal terms had been agreed with AFC Wimbledon centre-half Ben Heneghan and in a week where Wednesday are hoping to get things moving in the transfer market in time for the players to report for pre-season training on June 20.