Duncan Watmore is Rotherham United arrival No 1 on deadline day
ROTHERHAM United today made a deadline-day U-turn and signed free-agent striker Duncan Watmore on a short-term deal to the end of the season.
The League One Millers had tracked the 31-year-old for months but manager Matt Hamshaw said last month that a deal wouldn't be happening.
The former Premier League man brings experience and undoubted talent to AESSEAL New York Stadium but has had injury troubles and hasn't played competitively since leaving Championship Millwall last summer.
He has recently trained with Stockport County and has also had a trial at Sheffield Wednesday.
Twentieth-placed Rotherham are prepared to take a risk on his fitness in the hope that he can bring nous and quality to their bid to climb the table.
He is the first Rotherham arrival of the final day of the new-year transfer window and there should be more to come.
The Millers are poised to tie up loan moves for Manchester United teenage attacker Gabriele Biancheri and 21-year-old Aston Villa left wing-back Lino Sousa.
Watmore began his career in the top flight with Sunderland and also had a spell in the second tier with Middlesbrough.