Craig Bellamy will complete a free transfer move from Liverpool to Cardiff City, after he passed a medical on Friday morning.
Bellamy, 33, returns to the club where he spent a season on loan in 2010-11.The Cardiff-born forward, who scored 11 goals that season, will again wear the number 39 shirt.Cardiff boss Malky Mackay confirmed the club were in talks with the striker, who had a year to run on his contract at Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool.
"We're in advanced talks with both Liverpool and Craig," Mackay told BBC Sport Wales on Thursday.
"Brendan's [Rodgers] a good friend of mine and he's been fantastic to deal with in this situation.
"It's something we're progressing at the moment and we're hoping to have some more news in the next couple of days."
Rumours of Bellamy's return were fuelled this week when Liverpool manager Rodgers confirmed he had given the Welshman permission to move closer to his family in Cardiff.Bellamy played and scored for the Great Britain Olympic football team this summer and the forward's talents are well known to the current Bluebirds' manager.
"We've known each other our whole careers," said Mackay.
"We were together a long time ago at Norwich City.
"He's a proud lad from the area and he's a top player, a top talent."
Cardiff captain Mark Hudson thinks Bellamy can have a positive affect ono his side's bid to win promotion to the Premier League next season.
"He'll try and lead us with his experience and the knowledge that he's got of the game to get to that next level," said 30-year-old centre-back Hudson.
"That's what we want, we want to get there.
"The ambition of the club to bring someone like him in matches [the ambition of] everyone that's playing in the Cardiff shirt at the moment.
"We want to get to that next level and if we bring him in then it's going to help us, definitely."
Bellamy, who was captain of the 2010-11 side, scored 11 goals in a year that ended with the Bluebirds losing to Reading in the play-off semi-finals.Hudson remembers that season well and hopes the 33-year-old frontman finalises his move to Malky Mackay's team.
"He's an international and he's been at the top level for a long time," added Hudson, who joined Cardiff from Charlton Athletic in 2009.
"To be able to work with someone like that was beneficial to everyone that was playing with him at the time.
"I learnt a lot from him, the way he conducted himself and went about his day-to-day business.
"You look at him now, he's a role model.
"He's been to the Olympics and he's been captain of the Olympics [football] team.
"To have that experience can only help us."
Cardiff have won three of four pre-season friendlies so far this summer, as the squad prepares for the Capital One Cup first-round match at Northampton Town on Tuesday, 14 August.City face Newcastle United at home in their final warm-up game before that and as he assesses the season ahead, Hudson hopes his team will go one better than last season's play-off final defeat .
"Top two is the main aim for us," he said. "I don't think anyone wants to see us go through the play-offs again and I definitely don't.
"But with the squad we've got this year and the way we've gelled over the last 12 to 13 months, as a group we're a lot more solid now."
Meanwhile, Mackay has also confirmed that defender Darcy Blake is still in his plans for next season, even though the youth team product has not signed a contract extension.
"We offered Darcy a contract extension and he's turned that down, which he's got the ability to do that," said Mackay.
"Darcy probably feels that he needs first team football.
"He's not been able to get that through one reason or another... but he's part of my squad."
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