 Fortune scored five goals while on loan to relegated West Brom
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Nancy striker Marc-Antoine Fortune has agreed personal terms with Celtic and is undergoing a medical with the Scottish Premier League club.
The 27-year-old is expected to sign for the Glasgow outfit in preference to offers from English top-flight clubs Hull, Fulham and Portsmouth.
Fortune arrived in Glasgow on Monday to have a look round club facilities.
Nancy agreed a fee of about £3.8m with Celtic and Hull for the player who was on loan to West Brom last season.
Fortune could be followed to Celtic Park by Nancy team-mate Landry N'Guemo.
The French club's director general Nicolas Holveck told his club website that Celtic had also expressed an interest in the 23-year-old midfielder who has been capped by Cameroon.
Mowbray waiting on Fortune decision
Tony Mowbray, who was appointed Celtic manager this summer, admitted that his club were unlikely to be able to match the wages being offered by his suitors from England's top flight.
But he was hoping that Celtic's stature and the fact that he worked with the French Guianan at West Brom would hold sway.
"I'll either be sitting watching him shaking someone's hand and holding a shirt up somewhere at an English Premier League club, or you will all come back here in a few days' time and meet the guy yourself," Mowbray said last week.
"My advantage is I have worked with him - he knows me as a coach. I know his strengths and weaknesses.
"I don't think it's any secret that the English Premier League clubs get £30-35m each year off their television deals and the Scottish clubs don't.
"But what I do know is we have a huge pulling power from the support and the history and tradition of this club.
"Believe it or not, there's a lot of footballers who play for the love of the game as well as the money that goes with it.
"To play for a club fighting for championships, hoping to compete in the Champions League is a much bigger draw than taking the money sometimes and going and fighting against relegation and playing in a league when there are only really four teams who can ever compete to win that league."
Mowbray is looking for reinforcements after Dutch striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and midfielder Paul Hartley left the club having not been offered new contracts.
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Celtic and former West Brom coach Peter Grant is an admirer of the forward, who scored five goals in 17 Premier League appearances last season.
"Marco is a quality player and we were very impressed by just how well he did for us last season," he said.
"People say he didn't have a fantastic scoring record. But look at the goals from midfield after he came in.
"The goals the other boys scored because of the way he played was phenomenal.
"Marco had a great ethic about him in his training as well as his playing. He was a privilege to work with."
Hull manager Phil Brown last week expressed frustration at being kept waiting by Fortune and threatened to move on to other signing targets.
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