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Cardiff City have signed Leicester City midfielder Tom Lawrence on loan until the end of the season with an official announcement expected later today.

The Bluebirds beat off competition from a couple of Championship rivals for the 22-year-old who has just finished a loan spell at Blackburn.

Wrexham-born Lawrence, a Wales international, will go straight into Russell Slade’s squad haed of his side’s clash with MK Dons on the weekend and will be used as a winger or can slot in centrally in a number ten role.

With Kenneth Zohore signed on loan too after joining Vincent Tan’s other club, Belgian outfit, KV Kortrijk, WalesOnline understands the capture of Lawrence concludes the Bluebirds’ business when it comes to players coming in on this transfer deadline day.

The Bluebirds had been monitoring a 26-year-old wideman currently playing in a European league, but have abandon that plan with the capture of Lawrence.

Lawrence began his career at Manchester United, but failed to make the break-through at Old Trafford and joined the Foxes following their promotion to the Premier League in September 2014.

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He has two caps for Wales at senior level and is expected to be part of the squad Chris Coleman takes to France for this summer’s Euro 2016 championships.