DUBAI, Jan 12: Iraq international midfielder Nashat Akram, who plays for Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates, is set to sign for Premiership club Manchester City, an official of the Emirati club said on Friday.

According to official Hamad ben Nakhirat al-Ameri, the clubs have reached agreement, the medical has been undertaken, but no contract has been signed.

Neither a transfer fee nor length of contract was revealed.

“The contract has yet to be signed, but the deal is almost done,” he told AFP.

The 23-year-old Akram was third in the vote for the 2007 Asian player of the year and was part of the Iraq team which won the Asian Cup for the first time in July last year.—AFP