So now the Blues boss plans to fly Olisadebe into Birmingham and have talks with a view to completing an already agreed £3.3 million transfer from Panathinaikos.
The Greek side accepted Blues' bid for the Nigerian-born Polish International striker last week but the transfer was held up.
"We expect in the next 24 to 48 hours that Emmanuel will come over and he'll have a conversation with me, then we'll see how it progresses from there," Bruce told the B'ham Evening Mail.
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