Report: Schalke's Rabbi Matondo on verge of loan to Stoke City
Sportbild and SkyGermany report that relegation-threatened FC Schalke 04 near completion of a deal to send Welsh attacker Rabbi Matondo to Stoke City on a six-month loan.
| Rabbi Matondo. | Photo: Tobias Nüssel, CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Kilian Gaffer of Germany's "SportBild" publicized information that Matondo, absent from Schalke's bench squad in the Saturday fixture against Hertha is en route to England to complete a medical. SkySports reporter Dirk Schlarmann confirmed this information via twitter.
Speculation about a loan or transfer to an EPL or EFL club has been rampant in recent days. Transfermarkt.de reports that both correspondents confirm Stoke as the destination and that a deal to send him to the Potters is in its final stages.
