WANDERERS are ready to end Lloyd Dyer’s Watford misery and bring him on loan to the Macron Stadium for the rest of the season.

After missing out on Diego Fabbrini on Thursday, Neil Lennon has now enquired about taking the 32-year-old winger, with midfielder Jay Spearing travelling in the opposite direction.

Whites fans will need no introduction to Dyer, who scored against Bolton for Leicester City in each of the last three times he faced them.

But since signing at Vicarage Road in the summer the 32-year-old has managed just four starts and has been told he can no longer train with the first team.

He, Matias Ranegie and Lewis McGugan have been frozen out by Hornets boss Slavisa Jokanovic in a similar way to Wanderers loanee Keith Andrews was earlier in the season.

But Lennon sees him as a useful addition to his squad, which is chronically lacking in attacking width, and was racing to get the deal completed last night.

Blackburn Rovers and Leeds United have also been linked with the winger, who made more than 200 appearances for Leicester and helped them to Premier League promotion last season.

Wanderers boss Lennon has had little luck in the transfer market thus far, joking this week that he had made contact with 27 different targets without success.

The Northern Irishman has cut a frustrated figure after losing out on a number of players – but he maintains hope that the last two weeks of the January window will be much busier than the first.

“It’s frustrating but what can I do? I have to try and be patient,” he said.

“A lot of things and promises were made, and not kept.

“But that’s the way the window works. Normally you get most of your business done in the last week of the window.

“It can go right up until the final few hours, as I know from my time at Celtic.

“That is the January window for you but you would certainly like to get your business done sooner rather than later.

“It’s a waiting game.”

Spearing’s loan move to Watford could be completed early next week regardless of the outcome for Dyer.