ADELAIDE United striker Bruce Djite is destined to become the fourth starting XI player from the Reds’ grand final win in May to exit the club before the start of the new season.

Djite is a medical away from signing for South Korean club Suwon Bluewings.

The Reds striker flew to South Korea on Monday and will have a medical on Tuesday, using an exit clause to join the Bluewings who are well entrenched in a relegation battle.

Club officials claim Adelaide is now in the market for a Japanese forward to fulfil its foreign quota after Reds chairman Greg Griffin took aim at Melbourne City.

Griffin claimed City was making a mockery of the salary cap by using the new Football Federation Australia “full season guest player rule’’ to lure Socceroos superstar Tim Cahill to the A-League.

The rule also allows clubs to have two marquee players if the guest player fits tough criteria.

Griffin was angered by the thought Cahill could be joining Melbourne City – a club which has Manchester City, New York City and part of Yokohama F Marinos as trading partners under the City Football Group umbrella – as a guest player with fiscal assistance from FFA.

“The strength of any small business is live within your means,’’ Griffin said.

“This year is going to be challenging if Tim Cahill comes across, that’s another gift to Melbourne City which I personally didn’t agree with.

“I don’t think the FFA should tip in any money. I don’t think the FFA should be determinants of which so-called marquee players come into the competition and I don’t think they should be contributing unless there’s an extraordinary event.

“Probably Tim Cahill is an extraordinary event – I just don’t like that the salary cap tends to become diminished in this process.”

Djite became the A-League’s most lethal marksman towards the back end of the season with 11 goals from January 22 until the grand final win on May 1.

With the South Korean transfer window closing on Friday, it’s understood Djite, 29, could be in line to make his debut on Saturday against Sangju Sangmu.

Djite is on the verge of joining grand final heroes Stefan Mauk (NEC), Craig Goodwin (Sparta Rotterdam) and Bruce Kamau (Melbourne City) in departing the club.