CARLTON has made official contact with the Mick Malthouse camp and will lodge a formal job offer as early as tomorrow night.
If the parties agree to terms, Malthouse will be announced as Carlton coach by the end of the week.
Malthouse is expected to be granted permission to continue working with Channel 7 and 3AW radio through the finals.
He would commence official duties on the Monday after the Grand Final on October 1.
Carlton is believed to have made the call on Saturday, with a meeting scheduled between Malthouse, his manager Peter Sidwell and Blues powerbrokers, including president Stephen Kernahan.
Malthouse, 59, spent the weekend discussing the Carlton job with wife Nannette and his closest friends and family.
The Blues offer will be for a three-year term, costing the club well over $3 million.
Malthouse has a view the Carlton list can be tweaked to win a premiership during his tenure.
"I will meet Carlton, that's just a fact," Malthouse said yesterday.
"And I need to see where they're at, where they're going. They need to see where I'm at, because I haven't spoken to them."
Malthouse, who has spoken often of the negative effect of coaching on family, said he alone would decide if he was to return.
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