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Tottenham edge closer to Tanguy Ndombele deal for club record fee
Tottenham Hotspur are closing in on a club record deal to sign midfielder Tanguy Ndombele from Lyon.
Ndombele is in talks to join Spurs in a deal that could be worth as much as £55million, which would eclipse the £42m the club paid for defender Davinson Sanchez two years ago.
Should he complete his switch, then Ndombele will become Tottenham’s first signing since the arrival of Lucas Moura in January 2018.
It would be a welcome boost for manager Mauricio Pochettino, who is spending the summer in Barcelona and waiting to see whether or not Spurs can deliver his targets.
Ndombele is one of Pochettino’s priorities and the 22-year-old’s arrival will boost Tottenham’s hopes of keeping the Argentine at the club.
Pochettino has made it clear that Spurs need to show more ambition in the transfer window this summer, having failed to make any signings in the last two windows.
Juventus had been chasing Ndombele, but the Italian club are resigning themselves to the fact that, barring a late hitch, he is likely to move to north London.
Ndombele has won four senior caps for France and this season provided three goals with eight assists in 49 competitive games for Lyon.
Other than Ndombele, Tottenham are also hopeful of clinching the signing of Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon and are interested in Ajax’s Donny van de Beek and Roma’s Nicolo Zaniolo.
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