The former Sheffield Wednesday striker looks set to join Sheffield United.
The former Sheffield Wednesday striker, Gary Madine, looks set to join Sheffield United from Cardiff City.
BBC Sport Wales reports Madine is heading to the Blades on loan with a view to a permanent transfer.
The 28-year-old spent four-and-a-half-years on Wednesday’s books, in which time he helped the Owls to promotion at United’s expense and scored against the Blades en route.
Madine was later filmed calling the Sheffield United captain, Billy Sharp, a ‘fat, little pig’, and those on the Steel City’s Red and White half will need no introduction if he is to arrive at Bramall Lane.
But what do those of a Sheffield Wednesday persuasion make of their rivals’ potential new recruit, who could increase the Blades’ ex-Owls contingent to four, after Leon Clarke, David McGoldrick and Caolan Lavery?
This is what they’re saying on Twitter…
Sharp, who scored both goals as Sheffield United beat Madine’s Bolton shortly after the latter’s comments, later played down any ill-feeling between the pair.
“I don’t think he said anything that people don’t already know… I think everybody knows I’m fat,” the 32-year-old told Alan Biggs’ Sheffield Live TV show in March 2017:
“I had no problem with it. He texted one of the lads who play with me now on the Monday morning – as far as I’m concerned it was done then. But the media did try to make a thing of it and the Bolton fans thought they’d sing to me to try and get to me but, obviously, it worked in my favour.”
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