Out-of-favour Sunderland winger Will Buckley will join Leeds on an emergency loan next week.
Buckley, 25, is scheduled to join the club on a 93-day emergency loan and is expected to join his new teammates for training this week.
But completion of the move will be put on hold until Leeds' home league game against Birmingham on Oct. 3 to ensure Buckley is available for the whole of the Christmas fixture programme.
A statement on Sunderland's website read: "SAFC and Leeds United have agreed a loan deal for Will Buckley, which will see the winger join the Yorkshire club until 2 January 2016.
"The player has been given permission to train with Leeds United with immediate effect, ahead of the commencement of the loan move next week."
Leeds were reported to have held talks with the former Brighton midfielder over a possible move during the summer and despite the recent arrivals of fellow wingers Stuart Dallas and Jordan Botaka, head coach Uwe Rosler is keen to add him to his squad.
Buckley started out at Rochdale and joined Watford for an undisclosed fee in 2010 before Brighton signed him for £1 million in the summer of 2011.
Sunderland paid £2.5 million to take Buckley to Wearside in August 2014 and although he made a total of 25 appearances for them in his first season, he has yet to feature for the Black Cats in the current campaign.