Stoke City set to complete loan move for Tottenham's Tom Huddlestone

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<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.24.1.1/1327?ns=guardian&pageName=Stoke+City+set+to+complete+loan+move+for+Tottenham%27s+Tom+Huddlestone%3AArticle%3A1790950&ch=Football&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=Stoke+City+%28Football%29%2CTottenham+Hotspur+%28Football%29%2CTransfer+window+%28football%29%2CFootball%2CSport&c5=Premier+League&c6=Press+Association&c7=12-Aug-22&c8=1790950&c9=Article&c10=News&c11=Football&c13=&c25=&c30=content&c42=Sport&h2=GU%2FSport%2FFootball%2FStoke+City" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">• Midfielder undergoing a medical ahead of loan<br />• Jermaine Pennant leaked the news on Twitter</p><p>Stoke City are set to complete the signing of Tom Huddlestone on a season-long loan deal, with the Tottenham midfielder undergoing a medical.</p><p>The club confirmed the 25-year-old was at the club's Clayton Wood training ground for tests after the Stoke winger Jermaine Pennant <a href="https://twitter.com/j_pennant/status/238189384963338240" title="">leaked the news on Twitter</a> after arriving for work on Wednesday morning.</p><p>"I walked in training & got a shock saw my friend Tom Huddlestone… On loan till end of season good signing," he wrote. "Yes it's true he's going to have a medical later if it's all good we have got him till the end of the season."</p><p>Huddlestone has not played a competitive match for almost an entire year, last featuring against Manchester City on 28 August, and has had two operations on his right ankle in the intervening period – prompting Spurs to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/aug/20/tom-huddlestone-michael-dawson-tottenham" title="">seek a loan move for him</a>.</p><p>Stoke have already signed the Houston Dynamos defender Geoff Cameron and the midfielders Jamie Ness from Rangers and Michael Kightly from Wolves this summer.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/stokecity">Stoke City</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/tottenham-hotspur">Tottenham Hotspur</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/transfer-window">Transfer window</a></li></ul></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://guardian.co.uk.feedsportal.com/c/34708/f/639039/s/229d10b9/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263415598/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/229d10b9/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263415598/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/229d10b9/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/139263415598/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/229d10b9/a2t.img" border="0"/>
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