Tottenham Hotspur have signed Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen for a fee possibly rising to 12 million euros.
Both clubs had long been in talks over the possibility of the Belgium defender moving to White Hart Lane, and the deal is now set to be completed.
Vertonghen will ink a long-term contract with Spurs upon completion of his medical.
I m very happy that the saga s finally over. I don t have to worry about anything anymore, and can focus on other things again, the 25-year-old told the Ajax website.
It s great that I can start at Spurs during pre-season. That was very important for me. I m looking forward to a great time. I ve heard a lot of beautiful stories about Tottenham.
Vertonghen came through the ranks of the Ajax youth academy, and has …
Southampton have no intention of selling Victor Wanyama to Tottenham Hotspur, .
The South Coast club have so far rebuffed the North London club’s advances, with Mauricio Pochettino keen to be reunited with the Kenya international who he signed for Saints in the summer of 2013.
Since arriving at St Mary’s, Wanyama has racked up sixty-five appearances in all competitions, scoring three times.
Prior to his move to England, he spent two seasons in Scotland with Celtic, having begun his career in Belgium with Beerschot.
Internationally he has been capped thirty-one times, with his one and only goal for his country so far coming in World Cup Qualifying victory over Seychelles in November 2011.
Southampton were held to a goalless draw at Wat…
Tottenham s Giovani dos Santos could be set to move to Inter Milan as part of a swap deal for goalkeeper Julio Cesar, his agent has revealed.
The Mexican, who recently won a gold medal for his country at the Olympics, has failed to cement a place in the first team at White Hart Lane since joining from Barcelona in 2008, and has had loan spells at a number of clubs including Ipswich Town and Galatasaray.
However, the 23-year-old looks set to leave the Premier League after his representative Vicente Montes confirmed a swap deal to bring Cesar to Spurs and take Dos Santos to the San Siro could be in the offing.
Montes told calciomercato.com: The truth is that Gio has always wanted to play in La Liga or Serie A so that s what we re aiming for.
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Cristiano Ronaldo deserves to win the Ballon d Or as he has claimed the top silverware for club and country in 2016, Portugal team-mate Nani has said.
The Real Madrid forward is one of the favourites for the prize he won last year after another exceptional 12 months, in which he lifted both the Champions League and Euro 2016 trophies.
Given that he also scored 35 goals in 36 LaLiga matches as Madrid narrowly lost out to Barcelona in the title race, Nani has no doubt that his old Manchester United colleague would be a worthy winner.
Ronaldo won the most important trophies, the Champions League and Euro 2016, and also had an excellent league campaign, the Valencia winger said, as quoted by Marca. He deserves the Ballon d Or.
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Lille have been ordered to pay €300,000 compensation to Belgian club Genk over the signing of forward Divock Origi.
Belgium international Origi joined Lille in 2010 after playing for Genk s youth academy. He joined Premier League Liverpool in July last year before being loaned back to the Ligue 1 club for the 2014-15 season.
FIFA ruled in Februrary 2014 that Genk were not entitled to compensation for training Origi as they did not offer him a contract.
However, they appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), who have accepted Genk s justification for not trying to sign Origi to a deal.
Genk argued the club would have been punishable under Belgian law by offering a contract to Origi, who was 15 when he left for Lille.
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Jurgen Locadia s debut goal helped Brighton and Hove Albion ease past Coventry City 3-1 and into the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
A club-record signing in January, Locadia opened his account in the 15th minute at the Amex Stadium as the Seagulls made light work of fourth-tier opposition with a Premier League scalp to their name this season after beating Stoke City.
Connor Goldson headed in prior to half-time before Leonardo Ulloa put the seal on victory with the first goal of his second spell at the club.
Jonson Clarke-Harris snatched a late consolation for the League Two side but they never truly threatened to deny Chris Hughton s men a fourth match unbeaten in all competitions.
The lowest-ranked club in the fifth round, Coventry received an early …
Former Bastia player Julian Palmieri has dismissed Mario Balotelli s claims that he was racially abused during Nice s 1-1 Ligue 1 draw at the Stade Armand Cesari.
Balotelli lambasted a horrible situation after Friday s game, alleging in an Instagram post that he was the subjected monkey noises from a section of the home supporters.
The French Professional Football League (LFP) has announced it will investigate incidents from the game and said in a statement it deplores all the incidents that occured during the SC Bastia OGC Nice meeting .
But Palmieri, who made his professional debut at Bastia in 2005 before returning to his hometown club for a stint between 2012 and 2016, questioned the striker s version of events and suggested Balotelli was looking for excus…
Bayern Munich and Germany doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt has launched another attack on Pep Guardiola, claiming the Manchester City coach overestimated himself during their time working together.
After 38 years at the club, Muller-Wohlfahrt left Bayern during Guardiola s tenure, having fallen out with the Catalan following a 3-1 loss to Porto in the Champions League quarter-finals in 2015.
He returned in November last year to be reunited with former coach Jupp Heynckes, who was tempted out of retirement to replace the sacked Carlo Ancelotti.
In an extract from his book published by Bild earlier this month, Muller-Wohlfahrt described Guardiola as a person with a weak self-confidence who does everything to hide that from other people .
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According to , the loan agreement between Leicester City and AS Monaco for Islam Slimani allows the French club to sign the striker permanently for less than £8 million.
Slimani arrived to Leicester from Sporting Lisbon in 2016 for a club record fee of £28 million, a few months after the Foxes shocked the world by being crowned Premier League champions. However, the Algerian has never been able to justify that kind of investment in him, and since then, he s been on loan with Newcastle, Fenerbahce, and currently Monaco.
This season he has been on terrific form for the Ligue 1 side, netting five times and assisting six in seven games in all competitions so far, and should they decide to make the switch permanent at the end of the season, Leicester would apparently lose …
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a 3-0 win over minnows Feignies-Aulnoye in Sunday s Coupe de France round-of-64 clash
PSG never looked in danger of suffering an upset against their fifth-tier opponents, and they went 2-0 up after 30 minutes through penalties from Mbappe and Mauro Icardi.
Former Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos was withdrawn at the interval on just his second appearance for the Parisians, perhaps not the best sign as he continues his recovery from injury, before Mbappe added a third goal early in the second period.
The Ligue 1 leaders, who have lifted the trophy in six of the last seven seasons, continued to create chances but ultimately fell short of adding gloss to the scoreline.
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