Partick Thistle have agreed a fee with Barnsley for defender Liam Lindsay, boss Alan Archibald has confirmed.
The Jags centre-back rejected a switch to Oxford last week, but now looks set for a move to the Sky Bet Championship after the Tykes met the Maryhill outfit's asking price, which Press Association Sport understands is £350,000.
Archibald, speaking at the unveiling of the club's new main sponsors Just Employment Law, admits he is loath to lose the 21-year-old, but is glad the bid has not come any later.
The Firhill manager said: "In the last couple of hours we've now agreed a fee with Barnsley.
"Liam trained with us today, but he will probably now go down and speak to them in the next couple of days and take it from there.
"It will be a huge loss to us if it goes through. He's a left-sided centre-half and those are hard to find. They give you a good balance to your side.
"The good thing if it happens now is that it gives us a couple of months to get someone in rather than the last week of the window. I've seen some horror stories in the last couple of seasons with teams losing their best players in the last day or two. We didn't want that to happen to us."
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