Reading are to announce former Southampton boss Nigel Adkins as their new manager.
Adkins, who replaces Brian McDermott at the Royals, will be confirmed in the job at a 09:15 GMT news conference.
Reading are seven points adrift of safety and are second bottom of the Premier League, with eight games left.
Adkins, 48, led Southampton to back-to-back promotions before being sacked in January and has previously managed at Bangor City and Scunthorpe United.
After a trip to Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium on Saturday, Adkins’s first home game in charge will be against his former employers, Southampton.
His dismissal in January, and replacement by former Espanyol coach Mauricio Pochettino, came when the Saints were three points clear of the relegation zone in their first season back in the Premier League.
McDermott, 51, led Reading to promotion last season, but four successive Premier League defeats left them four points adrift of safety, and he lost his job on 11 March.
Brighton boss Gus Poyet had been in the running for the Royals job but opted to stay at the play-off chasing Championship side while former Swindon boss Paolo Di Canio was also a target.
Nigel Adkins
- Born in Birkenhead, 11 March 1965
- Goalkeeper for Tranmere, Wigan and Bangor City in a 13-year playing career
- Player-manager of Bangor for three years, twice winning the League of Wales
- Graduates from the University of Salford with a degree in physiotherapy
- Takes charge of Scunthorpe in November 2006 after a spell as their physio
- Wins League One title that season
- Relegated from the Championship but wins promotion back via the play-offs in 2009
- Takes over at Southampton in September 2010
- Wins promotion to Championship in May 2011
- Promoted to the Premier League on last day of 2011-12 season
