Tottenham Hotspur will hand Eric Dier a new five-year contract as reward for his superb form for club and country.

Dier, who will become one of the club’s best-paid players on around £70,000-a-week, was one of Tottenham’s stand-out performers last season after being converted into a defensive midfielder by manager Mauricio Pochettino.

The 22-year-old was also one of very few players to come out of England’s Euro 2016 campaign with credit. Dier was England’s outstanding player in the group games and was struck down by illness ahead of the last-16 defeat to Iceland and had to be substituted.

His performances for Tottenham and in France attracted the interest of a host of big clubs at home and abroad, with Bayern Munich manager Carlo Ancelotti hailing him as one of the best players at the European Championships.