Tanguy Ndombele’s move to Spurs is imminent (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Tottenham appear to have won the race to sign Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele with the Frenchman arriving in London for a medical at the club.

The 22-year-old is a wanted man this summer, with Manchester United also interested in his services, but Spurs have convinced him that he should move to the white half of north London instead.

A fee of £55.5m, plus potential add-ons of £9m has been agreed between Tottenham and Lyon, and personal terms have also now been hammered out between the club and player.

Reports in France, from L’Equipe, now suggest that Ndombele landed in London on Monday night and will complete his medical with Spurs as early as Tuesday.


Ndombele will cost Spurs an initial fee of £55m (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

As recently as Sunday it was believed that Manchester United could still hijack the deal as personal terms were yet to be agreed between Spurs and Ndombele.



However, they have now come to an agreement and the club record deal is about to be pushed over the line.

Tottenham’s previous record signing was Davinson Sanchez from Ajax in 2017 for £40m, so the initial payment of £55m would comfortably outstrip that.

Ndombele has been at Lyon for two seasons, intitially signing on loan from Amiens in 2017 before an option to make the deal permanent was taken up for around £7m.

He has already made 98 appearances for the club, scoring four goals from midfield and was named in the Ligue 1 Team of the Year and Champions League Squad of the Season in 2018-19.

The France international will join Jack Clarke in signing for Spurs this week, with the 18-year-old set to arrive from Leeds before being loaned back to the Championship side.

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