Sources: Tottenham rejects Newcastle United takeover and agrees to new signingAccording to Football Insider’s sources

Sources: Tottenham rejects Newcastle United takeover and agrees to new signingAccording to Football Insider’s sources, Tottenham have spurned a late move from Newcastle United and signed prodigy Luka Vuskovic from Hajduk Split.Spurs announced the signing of the 16-year-old Croatian on Monday after agreeing a deal with Split, although he will not join until 2025, when he turns 18.It is understood that Newcastle were interested in Vuskovic and made contact over a possible deal.But they had been told that Vuskovic had already decided to move to Tottenham.

Football Insider has learned that the London giants will pay Split £8.7 million for Vuskovic. He has already played eleven times for the Croatian club, but is yet to feature in the 2023/24 season.Get exclusive transfer news on Football Insider’s YouTube TV channelThe prodigy, who has signed a contract until 2030, will now continue his development in his home country before joining Tottenham in 2025.Vuskovic also plays for the Croatian national under-17 team and helped Split win the national cup with three appearances during the 2022-23 season.Upon his signing, the 1.90 meter star stressed that it was “a great honor to see that a club like Tottenham showed such will and made so much effort to sign a player of my age.” .He has been compared to former Barcelona star Gerard Pique.

 

Tottenham currently play Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven in defense under recently appointed coach Ange Postecoglou.Meanwhile, Newcastle have signed some top talent since their mega buyout in 2021 – including Garang Kuol and Yankuba Minteh – but missed out on Vuskovic.

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