QPR are set to complete the signing of Blackburn Rovers midfielder Steven Reid on loan for a month.

Reid signed for Rovers from Millwall in 2003 for a fee just short of £2m and has won 22 caps for the Republic of Ireland. Sadly the Kingston upon Thames born central midfielder has endured a tough time with injuries recently, missing the whole of the 2006/07 season with back and hamstring problems and then sitting out most of 2008/09 with a knee injury. He has appeared just three times for Sam Allardyce this season, all in the League Cup, and is looking for first team football and a chance to build up his match fitness at Loftus Road. Rangers themselves have endured tough luck with injuries in the central midfield area with Martin Rowlands out for the season and Gavin Mahon unavailable for four months.

Reid is expected to sign a one month loan deal at Loftus Road tomorrow and go straight into the squad travelling to Doncaster for this weekend's Championship encounter. Rangers are also said to be close to tying up a short term loan deal for Aston Villa’s goalkeeper Andy Marshall as cover for Radek Cerny. Marshall chose to move to Villa Park and be third choice rather than sign permanently for QPR in the summer after a trial at Loftus Road but can provide short term cover while the R’s chase the permanent signature of Man Utd stopper Tom Heaton in January.

Elsewhere Raheem Sterling, the 14 year old currently playing in QPR’s youth set up but attracting attention from the Premiership big guns, has reiterated his desire to stay with the R’s. Sterling is likely to be given a first team bow this season once he has turned 15 and told the Kilburn Times: “Everyone's been pretty nice - they all just treat me like one of them and want me to do my best. I'd like to play a few more games for the reserves and do well in training and play for the first team eventually. Jim Magilton has watched me play and train and he said 'keep doing what you're doing - I'm not afraid to chuck young players in the first team'. If it happened, I'd just have to be a bit smarter than normal. When Gareth Ainsworth was caretaker manager last year, he used to come and watch the under-16s train and since then he's been pushing me on. He says he wants to see me in the first team before he leaves the club."

Elsewhere in the Championship today Swansea City have entered talks with Sheffield United about signing 21 year old winger David Cotterill and Sammy Clingan says he is nearing a return to action at Coventry following injury - the Northern Ireland international could figure against QPR at Loftus Road next week.

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