Tottenham reach extremely rare agreement with Real Betis over 'future priority' transfer

Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign highly-rated United States international Johnny Cardoso, but there's a catch.

Betis and Tottenham engaged in talks this week regarding Argentine midfielder Giovani Lo Celso, who is on the verge of leaving the North London club after a four-year stay.

Lo Celso enjoyed a season-long loan spell at the Estadio Benito Villamarín in 2018/19 before joining on a permanent basis from Paris Saint-Germain.

Now, he looks set to make a return to Betis, according to Relevo, who claim Spurs have agreed a fee of €4 million [£3.3m] plus bonuses for the 28-year-old.

Given the current climate, that sum appears incredibly low.

But in the deal, Tottenham have inserted a 'priority option' to buy Betis midfielder Johnny Cardoso, who has already agreed terms, says Fabrizio Romano.

In fact, they've included a sell-on clause, which means if they do decide against signing Cardoso in the future, then they will make a profit.

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Ahead of Friday's deadline, Ange Postecoglou ruled out making any more signings following the arrivals of Lucas Bergvall, Wilson Odobert, Archie Gray and Dominic Solanke.

“Unless something surprising jumps out at us in the last 11 hours or whatever it is, that’s it for us,” he said ahead of Sunday’s clash against Newcastle.

“If nothing else happens, there’s a couple probably moving out, I think it’s been another positive window.

“You want to go into every window and come out the other side of it in a stronger sense and I certainly feel that.

“The players we’ve brought in are already making a short-term impact and even in the longer term, I think they’re going to be really good contributors for us.

“I certainly think we’ve got a more well-rounded squad to deal with Europe, the extra games and whatever injuries we have. So yeah, I think it’s been a real positive window."

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Postecoglou added: “I’m very happy. We’ve done a hell of a lot of work in 12 months, three windows. No doubts the squad’s changed.

“The demographic of the squad has changed, the suitability to the football I want to play, we’re much better equipped for that. There’s growth in the team, absolutely.

“We needed to do some fairly major work 12 months ago and since then we’ve gone a long way to getting the team to where we want to.

“There’s still more work to be done. It was never going to happen quickly. I don’t think it should happen quickly. When it does happen quickly, you’re more fraught to getting it wrong. So I think we’re in a good place.”