Tottenham Hotspur have hijacked Wolverhampton Wanderers’ transfer for Lens centre-back Kevin Danso, a number of reviews have revealed.
The 26-year-old had been in superior talks over a transfer to relegation-threatened Wolves, who picked up an important 2-0 win over Midlands rivals Aston Villa on Saturday evening.
Danso was resulting from bear a medical with Wolves on Sunday, The Athletic report, however that may no longer happen after Tottenham made a transfer on the eleventh hour.
Spurs are understood to have agreed a €25m (£20.9m) bundle with Lens, with private phrases additionally thrashed out with Danso over a five-and-a-half-year contract. The Austrian worldwide has already undergone a medical and is poised to hitch Ange Postecoglou’s injury-ravaged squad.
Information of Danso’s switch will probably be a giant enhance to Tottenham after a few main setbacks. Chairman Daniel Levy flew to Germany in midweek to try to conclude a £50m deal for Bayern Munich ahead Mathys Tel, solely to be taught the Frenchman was not serious about transferring to north London.
There was additionally a rejection from AC Milan’s Fikayo Tomori after intensive talks – the 27-year-old opting to stay in Italy quite than becoming a member of a struggling Spurs aspect who sit fifteenth within the Premier League desk.
Stress has been mounting on the shoulders of supervisor Ange Postecoglou, however there are mitigating circumstances that do clarify Spurs’ poor kind. An intensive damage disaster, which had one level had a dozen first-team gamers sidelined, has seen key defenders Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Future Udogie tackle a watching temporary, whereas first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario hasn’t performed since November.
Teenager Archie Grey, a midfielder by commerce, has been pressured to deputise alongside Radu Dragusin at centre-back for a major time frame, although the Romanian is now additionally on the remedy desk as Spurs anxiously wait to search out out the extent of a knee damage he has sustained.
Fortunately, Van de Ven is again in motion, that includes within the midweek over Elfsborg within the Europa League, and he may quickly be joined by Danso, who has previous expertise of enjoying within the Premier League from a mortgage spell at Southampton 5 years in the past.
