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Tottenham are on the trail of defender Fabian Schar – with director of football Franco Baldini desperate to push through a move for the Switzerland international.

Baldini made the trip to watch Schar in action for Basle at Sion last week and will now try to persuade Daniel Levy that he is worth buying.

Spurs remain on the lookout for a top-class centre-half in the wake of the fiasco surrounding their attempted purchase of Argentinian Mateo Musacchio.

That came to nothing, with problems over the third-party ownership of the Villarreal defender – and a whopping £40million price tag that was enough to scare off Levy.

Now Baldini is concentrating on 22-year-old Schar, who broke into the Swiss national side last year and was in their World Cup squad.