Tottenham find ‘breakthrough’ in talks for 6th summer signing

Premier League outfit Tottenham Hotspur are, in line with reviews, on the verge of including one more contemporary face to the membership’s first-team squad.

The newest participant in line to take his skills to north London? Djed Spence.

Hypothesis surrounding the way forward for defender Spence has after all been rampant over the course of the final couple of weeks.

This comes with the 21-year-old, contemporary off serving to Nottingham Forest again to the top-flight of English soccer courtesy of the Championship playoffs, piquing the curiosity of an entire host of golf equipment.

Forest, for his or her half, are unsurprisingly eager to make Spence’s arrival everlasting, owing to his spectacular exploits while on mortgage on the Metropolis Floor this previous season.

Djed Spence and Gabriel Martinelli throughout the FA Cup Third Spherical match between Nottingham Forest and Arsenal on the Metropolis Floor, Nottingham on Sunday ninth January 2022. (Photograph by Jon Hobley/MI Information/NurPhoto through Getty Photos)

It’s the aforementioned Spurs, although, who’ve lengthy positioned themselves on the entrance of the queue for the proficient full-back’s signature.

This comes with Antonio Conte understood to have recognized the proper aspect of his defence as being in want of reinforcement, and Spence considered as a long-term resolution.

And now, on the again of weeks of hypothesis, it seems as if a switch, lastly, is inching in the direction of completion.

As per an entire host of dependable sources, on Thursday, Fabio Paratici and the switch workforce on the Lilywhite half of north London reached a ‘breakthrough’ in negotiations with Middlesbrough.

In flip, a deal value a charge within the area of £15 million is now considered as imminent, probably set to be concluded as early as Friday morning.

Ought to he in the end land within the English capital, Spence will mark the sixth addition to Conte’s squad this summer season, following all of Fraser Forster, Ivan Perisic, Richarlison, Yves Bissouma and Clement Lenglet by means of the door on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Breakthrough in talks at the moment in Tottenham’s £15m pursuit of Middlesbrough wing-back Djed Spence. Finer particulars to be concluded on Friday. (I’ll maintain my fingers up, jumped the gun on this final week). #thfc #mfc

— John Percy (@JPercyTelegraph) July 14, 2022

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