EVERTON target Craig Bellamy is poised to sign for Cardiff City on loan today.
A news conference is set to be held this afternoon to confirm the Championship club's capture of the unsettled Manchester City striker.
Bellamy spent Monday in talks with an unnamed club and had been given permission to train with Cardiff.
Manchester City must name a 25-man Premier League squad by 1 September and Wales star Bellamy, 31, had already been told he was surplus to requirements
He had also been linked with moves to Tottenham, Fulham and Celtic.
Bellamy said last week he would be happy to play for Cardiff as his wife and children are based there and the club said they "would love" to sign him.
The Eastlands outfit would prefer him to move to the Championship rather than a Premier League rival - and the huge wealth of his current club means they have an unprecedented amount of control over the future of a player whose colourful career has taken in eight clubs already, and who has cost a near total of £45m in transfer fees.
