Morris agrees terms ahead of Leeds move

Former Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris has agrees terms with Leeds United a club spokesman confirmed this afternoon.

Former Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris has agrees terms with Leeds United a club spokesman confirmed this afternoon.

Morris was at Elland Road this afternoon completing a medical, having turned down a move to Cardiff last night and complications aside the deal is expected to go through by the end of the week.

"Personal terms have been agreed and he is having a medical," a club spokesman told the BBC Sportwebsite.

"Providing he passes the medical he will become a Leeds player."

Morris had been expected to go to Cardiff but snubbed the move at the eleventh hour, a move that has outraged Cardiff chairman, Sam Hammam.

Hammam said: "We had agreed every last detail of his contract and he had done 90% of his medical.

"He had done all the scans and X-rays and he was due to do a heart monitor test this morning and then there would have been a press conference.

"Then at 10.30pm last night the agent phones and tells me that Jody had already left the hotel in Cardiff and was on his way back to London."

Morris has been linked with a number of clubs since becoming a free agent but looks now to have made his mind up to join Leeds, who have lost midfielders Harry Kewell and Olivier Dacourt in recent weeks.

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