Tigana, who has managed in France, England and Turkey, quit as coach of Bordeaux earlier this year, and is now expected to steer the Chinese side who earlier this week announced the signing of Chelsea's French striker Nicola Anelka.
"Jean Tigana will arrive in Shanghai... and we will have final talks with him on the details of his contract," club spokesman Ma Yue said by telephone.
"His coaching contract will be for one year because that was what he had proposed during initial talks.
"If the results on the field are good, we will be talking about an extension. He will bring in his own coaching team for this assignment."
"It's like with the opening up of China," Zhou said near the club's Pudong training ground. "We needed to bring in the good stuff from foreign countries for us to learn from."
