LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Bolton Wanderers are close to signing Fiorentina's Japan midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata on a year's loan, the Premier League club said on Thursday.


Bolton are hoping to sign the 28-year-old playmaker over the next few days and present him to the media on Tuesday, a club spokesman said.


'There is an agreement (in principle), provided that he gets a work permit. He also has to pass a medical in the next couple of days and there are a few fine details still to be sorted out over his personal terms,' said the spokesman.


Bolton manager Sam Allardyce told the club's website: 'Hidetoshi is a player I admire and it would be great to have him on board.'


Japan's best-known player, Nakata has also played for Parma, AS Roma and Perugia in a seven-year spell in Serie A.