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Alvaro Negredo is pencilled in for a medical on Teesside today after talks to push through a deal went right to the top.

The bustling frontman, 30, trained with Valencia on Monday morning but then was pulled out of the La Liga outfit’s training trip to Venlo in Holland.

While Valencia’s first team squad jetted off for their mini-tour, the striker and his agents sat down with the top brass at La Mestalla to iron out some financial fine-print.

After initial talks in Spain reached an impasse, Boro chairman Steve Gibson and Valencia owner Peter Lim brokered the broad terms of the deal at a meeting in London last Thursday night.

The deal - agreed in principle by all parties - is understood to include a first option for Boro to buy Negredo permanently next summer for a fixed fee of around €10m if he is a success.

But there were a few snags to overcome in the striker’s complex contract at Valencia.

Negredo represents a €7m a year commitment for Valencia with a hefty wage, generous performance related bonus package and outstanding payments on his €28m move from Manchester City last summer.

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And with the club under Financial Fair Play pressure, the Spanish were eager to offload as much of the €130,000 a week burden as they could.

Negredo was set to jet to Teesside for a medical and pen the paperwork before flying back to Spain to join Boro in Marbella.

He will team up there with ex-Valencia team mate Antonio Barragan who completed a three year deal on Friday for a fee in the region of €2.5m.

And he will also link up with Gaston Ramirez, who joined the club flight from Durham Tees Valley airport on Monday after being granted a work permit.

The Uruguay playmaker had been awaiting his documents after agreeing a three year deal to join Boro last month.

The player, who enjoyed a successful loan spell from Southampton last term before making an abortive pre-contract switch to Penerol, has had to remain outside the UK while the case was processed by the Department of Employment.