Newly promoted English Premiership club, Cardiff City, have signed Nigeria striker Osaze Odemwingie on a three-year deal after he was blacklisted at former club, West Brom.
Osaze has completed a medical to become Malky Mackay’s latest signing.
Promoted Cardiff City paid £2.5million to West Brom for the Nigeria forward.
Odemwingie was in Cardiff on Monday undergoing a medical and has now put pen to paper on a three-year contract.
Cardiff beat Swansea City and Stoke City to the 32-year-old’s signature, with Michael Laudrup instead opting to bring in Alvaro Vazquez on loan from Getafe.
Cardiff’s latest signing can play up front or out wide and boasts a superb record of one goal in every three matches for West Brom.
Odemwingie hit the headlines in January after famously driving to QPR’s Loftus Road ground on deadline day to close the deal.
The Nigerian becomes Mackay’s eighth summer signing following the captures of Gary Medel, Steven Caulker, Andrea Cornelius, John Brayford, Simon Moore, Kevin Theophile-Catherine and Uruguay youngster Maximiliano Amondarain.
Odemwingie has previously played for La Louviere, Lille, and Lokomotiv Moscow.
The forward has made 55 appearances for Nigeria scoring nine times for the Super Eagles.
