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Tottenham new boy DeAndre Yedlin expects to receive the Latvian passport that will rubber-stamp his White Hart Lane move within the next fortnight.

The 21-year-old American qualifies for the EU documentation through his grandmother and, once it has been delivered, he will be free to join up with his new club.

Yedlin expects to arrive in north London in December after a short break at the end of the MLS season, with Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino hoping he will be available for selection from January.

Tottenham signed the right-back from Seattle Sounders in the summer after he shone at the World Cup with the United States, and immediately loaned him back to the Washington state side.

Initially, the plan was that Yedlin would move to Spurs ahead of the 2015-16 campaign but Kyle Walker’s injury problems prompted Pochettino to call the American over early.

Seattle are still involved in the MLS play-offs and he will be given a holiday at the end of the US season before jetting to England to meet up with his new team-mates.

His arrival is set to spell the end of Kyle Naughton’s time at Tottenham, after Pochettino told the defender, who turns 26 on Tuesday, that he is free to find another club in January.

Naughton and Walker, 24, arrived at Tottenham together from Sheffield United in 2009 for a combined fee of £9million.

Walker has resumed training with the first team and hopes to be available again after the international break.