Scotland goalkeeper Allan McGregor is to complete his move to Hull City in the next 24 hours.
The former Rangers man, who plays for Turkish side Beşiktaş, held talks at the KC Stadium last week and agreed the terms of his switch.
The final details are set to be signed off on the £1.8m transfer today, taking City's off-season spending to the region of £6m.
Born in Edinburgh, 31-year-old McGregor began his career with Rangers. He joined the club's youth set-up in 1998, and signed professional terms in 2001.
The Scotsman made his league debut in April 2002 at the age of 20, in a 2-0 win at home to Aberdeen.
In the summer of 2004, in a bid to gain first-team experience, McGregor joined St Johnstone on loan. The 22-year-old kept five clean sheets and was in January 2005 named player of the month in the SFL.
He established himself as the number one goalkeeper upon returning to Rangers, after Stefan Klos was ruled out with a cruciate ligament injury.
But just weeks later, boss Alex McLeish signed Dutchman Ronald Waterreus from Manchester City. "I am raging and rightly so", said McGregor.
"I feel that they don't have any confidence in me. I think I am just a cheap option for Rangers behind Stefan Klos.
"I might play against Hibs next week, but I very much doubt it and I am hurting."
Lagging behind Waterreus and Klos in the pecking order, in the summer of 2005 McGregor joined Dunfermline on a season-long loan deal. It was then Dunfermline boss Jim Leishman realised the Scotsman would go on to become an Ibrox great.
Reminiscing, Leishman told SunSport in 2011: "The funny thing was that it wasn't too hard to get Allan at the time.
"Big Alex had just signed Wattereus and had named him his No1 with Klos his back-up, so Allan was completely out of the picture.
"We knew he was a little unhappy and frustrated so we decided to go for it. He was terrific for us, he really was. We got to the League Cup final and he played a major role in us getting there."
In October 2006 McGregor was named Scottish Premier League Player of the Month, and weeks later signed a new deal keeping him at Ibrox until 2009.
By November that year his patience paid off – he was promoted by boss Paul Le Guen to the top of the club's goalkeeping hierarchy.
McGregor was voted by his Rangers teammates as the Player's Player of the Year at the end of his first season as first choice keeper, and in September 2007 signed a new three-year contract with the Ibrox club.
McGregor, who had earned his first call-up to the Scotland squad in February, said: "I wanted to leave last year because I didn't think I was going to play. The only reason I did get in the team was because of Lionel Letizi's injury.
"It can take someone else's misfortune to give you that chance, so I'm glad it happened and that I stayed at the club in the end."
In June 2008 McGregor signed a new five-year Rangers contract. There had been speculation over a possible move to England, but he committed his future to the Scottish Premier League giants.
In April 2009 both McGregor and captain Barry Ferguson were axed from the Scotland team to face Iceland, following an alleged drinking session.
The men were banned from ever representing Scotland again, and Ibrox boss Walter Smith suggested they had seen the last of their Rangers days. The club suspended them for a fortnight without pay.
But just weeks later, Smith admitted he may have been too harsh, and the Scottish Football Association conceded the issue was badly handled. The bans were lifted in November 2009.
The following year McGregor was said to have caught the eye of Benfica, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Arsenal. And by May 2011 the Rangers No.1 was one of the first names on the national coach's squad list for the Carling Nations Cup double-header against Wales and Republic of Ireland.
Scotland boss Craig Levein told the Daily Record: "His training is fantastic, his attitude is great around the other players and he's maturing.
"Allan's now at an age when he understands football is everything and he's at the stage where he must be concentrating on his career.
"He has attained a certain level and he should be concentrating on maintaining or improving that for as long as he can. I think he has got a new-found maturity.
"Since I've been involved in the squad, he's been an absolute diamond."
In June 2011, Rangers' new owner Craig Whyte insisted summer bids for McGregor would need to be "massive" for the club to even consider them. And the following month the Scotsman put to bed speculation about his future by signing a six-year contract extension.
But just 12 months later, after refusing to transfer his contract to the Rangers newco when the previous Ibrox club could not be saved from liquidation, McGregor signed with Turkish club Beşiktaş.
The two-year contract was worth €1.2 million per-season, it later emerged.
McGregor helped Beşiktaş finish third in the Turkish Superleague this season, and they will enter the Europa League at the play-off round stage next season.
The Scotsman was first linked with a move to Hull in May, with reports from Turkey suggesting Beşiktaş had accepted an offer of £1m for the 31-year-old.
