Former Bristol City striker Clarkson, 26, has been in negotiations with the club since joining up with Rovers for training a fortnight ago and manager Mark McGhee yesterday confirmed yesterday that a deal was "just about done".
The signing will represent a massive coup for McGhee after persuading Clarkson to drop down from the Championship to become part of Rovers bid to win promotion back to League One in the coming season. "We're just about there with David now," said McGhee. "It is a good signing for us because he is a player that sporadically showed good quality at Championship level.
"When he left Scotland to come down to Bristol City, I thought he would do brilliantly. It didn't quite work out like that for him, but he still did OK. I think he should have done better and is certainly a better player than he showed at Bristol City.
"I understand his game and I know what he does best.
"He's best when he's running the channels and chasing defenders down, but I don't think we saw enough of that at Bristol City.
"He is certainly a player with more than enough ability to excel at this level and I would expect Clarkson (pictured) to be a stand-out player for us in this division."
McGhee, meanwhile, is hoping to secure at least one more signing – believed to be a central defender – before the end of the weekend, but is unlikely to field any new faces at Yeovil tomorrow.
"We're very close and hope to secure a few players very soon. It's all going to schedule. I've always maintained that the recruitment of players this summer would go all the way to the end of August in some cases. That's the nature of the game at the moment."
The manager will also get another chance to assess German triallist Fabian Broghammer at Huish Park, but hinted that his future at the Memorial Stadium could be dependent on the outcome of on-going speculation surrounding Mustapha Carayol.
The highly-rated wideman has been targeted by Championship club Middlesbrough throughout the summer and McGhee admitted: "There is still a bit of uncertainty about Muzzy.
"What is certain is that Muzzy is a Bristol Rovers player until someone comes in with an appropriate bid.
We know how Muzzy feels and to be fair his attitude has been first-class. It doesn't affect what we are doing in the transfer market in any way. We don't need money from the sale of Muzzy to do what we need to do.
"The important thing to state is that if Muzzy goes it will be because he wants to and not because we have to sell him."
On Broghammer, McGhee added: "We've been very encouraged by what we've seen of him and he could possibly be a replacement for Muzzy.
"I'm not sure we can have both of them on the books, although we'd certainly like to because Fabian's got good pace and an ability to get at people.
"I'm looking forward to seeing how he performs against higher-league opposition in the shape of Yeovil on Saturday."
Defender Adam Virgo expects to feature at Huish Park after being given the go-ahead to play what would be a third game inside a week following a nine-month injury lay-off.
Jim Paterson is also expected to return after missing the last two matches with a head wound, which required 17 stitches following a collision with goalkeeper Conor Gough in training last week.
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