Tottenham Hotspur and Juventus will battle it for the signature of Adrien Rabiot this summer, claims a report.

Calciomercato claim that numerous teams are out of the running for the free-transfer midfielder, leaving Spurs and Juve leading the charge for the 24-year-old.

The Paris Saint-Germain man, who has been linked to Man Utd and Liverpool, has refused to sign a new contract in the French capital and he will leave this summer for free.

Real Madrid were recently tipped to land the France international but the report from Italy claims Zinedine Zidane “wants to pursue other targets like Christian Eriksen and Paul Pogba”.

Barcelona were fancied as his number one destination at the turn of the year and were believed to have had a verbal agreement with the player. That has since fallen through after Barca agreed a pre-contract agreement with Frenkie De Jong.

The interest of Juventus and Tottenham though remain and without a signing in the last two windows, a free-transfer for Rabiot may well be one that Spurs moneyman Daniel Levy fancies.

Rabiot’s mother Veronique is apparently keen on securing Champions League football for her son and Tottenham could well secure that with a win at Bournemouth this weekend.

Per the source, Spurs apparently held talks with the player in the winter, but a move proved out of reach, now though they are “willing to break their wage structure” to sign the player.

Harry Kane is Spurs’ top earner on around £200,000 a week, while Hugo Lloris is their second highest-paid player on £120,000 a week.

Rabiot has not featured for the French champions since the start of December after being frozen out by Thomas Tuchel.

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