Tottenham have agreed a deal to sign Danish playmaker Christian Eriksen from Ajax.

The 21-year-old is a product of the Dutch club s famed academy, but has elected to take on a new challenge in the Premier League after four seasons and a total of 161 appearances.

He becomes Tottenham s seventh signing of the transfer window, with Andre Villas-Boas side having splashed out ahead of receiving an anticipated €100million windfall from the sale of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid.

Eriksen won three Eredivisie titles and one KNVB Cup during his time at Ajax, and kicked off the new campaign with two goals in just four outings.

The midfielder has also been capped on 37 occasions by his country, notching four goals at international level since his debut in February 2010.

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Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has revealed that the Bundesliga giants are likely to take up the option to purchase Juventus winger Kingsley Coman on a permanent basis.

France youngster Coman arrived at the Allianz Arena on a two-year loan from Juve in 2015, going on to net six goals and provide 12 assists across all competitions last term.

And although he struggled for form early on in 2016-17 following his exploits at Euro 2016, Rummenigge expects Coman to remain at Bayern adding that Mehdi Benatia is likely to make his current loan switch to Juve permanent.

With Coman we have an option that is valid until April 30,  Rummenigge told Tuttosport. 

He had a few difficulties after the Euros, but lately has returned to his usual leve…

Veteran Italian striker Alberto Gilardino has officially terminated his deal with Serie A outfit Palermo and will spend the next six months playing for league rivals Pescara.

The much-travelled 34-year-old forward who played for Verona, Parma Milan, Fiorentina, Genoa and Bologna before moving to China in 2014, has already arrived at his new club and went through a first training session with his new teammates, according to .

Pescara chairman Daniele Sebastiani has confirmed that Gilardino has agreed on a 6-month deal with the automatic renewal clause if the club manage to stay up in the Italian top tier.

The Dolphins are currently rock-bottom is the Serie A, sitting in 20th place with only 9 points to their name after 18 rounds and the club certainly hope the ex…

Diego Simeone described Koke as an exemplary captain after the midfielder made a record-breaking 554th Atletico Madrid appearance in Saturday s 2-0 win at Sevilla.

Koke – who came through Atleti s youth ranks – surpassed fellow Colchoneros great Adelardo Rodriguez in the club s all-time appearance chart in a routine victory at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan.

The 30-year-old marked the occasion with an assist, teeing up Marcos Llorente to score a fine opener before Alvaro Morata lobbed Yassine Bounou to score his fourth league goal of the campaign after the break.

Koke has been a key player throughout Simeone s long reign in Madrid, and the Argentine struggled find the words to describe his captain s influence after the win.

It is difficult, in a short tim…

Erling Haaland shares many of the same qualities as Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, according to Peter Schmeichel, who has described the Manchester City man as several top strikers put into one player .

Haaland produced an incredible display as City swatted aside Manchester United for a 6-3 derby win on Sunday, scoring a treble and teeing up two goals for fellow hat-trick hero Phil Foden.

The Norwegian – who has scored 14 goals in his first eight Premier League appearances – has now scored a hat-trick in three successive home league games, becoming the first player to do so in the competition s history.

After watching Haaland tear United apart at the Etihad Stadium, Schmeichel picked out similarities between the 22-year-old and several striking lege…

Brazilian international striker Adriano on Wednesday declared himself very moved after completing his transfer from Flamengo to Italian heavyweights Roma.

I m very moved to have been welcomed in this manner. I feel like I m in Rio, he said at a press conference during his presentation.

Addressing the club s fans, he added: I m sure you ll have a great season, right from the start, and I know you can go far. I m aware of my responsibilities but I m really very happy to be here in Rome.

Roma, runners-up in Serie A last season, revealed earlier in the day that Adriano has signed a three-year contract tying him to the club until June 2013 and worth five million euros gross per year plus bonuses.

Adriano, 28, did not win a place in Brazil s World Cup squad …

Great success over three years

Germany have been something of a surprise package at the World Cup and I think even those in Germany may have thought their team was too inexperienced to expect much from. Who am I kidding? They always assume they’ll make the at least the semi-finals and in eleven of the last fifteen World Cups they have been right!

They faced what I hoped would be a tough test against England and quite simply out-classed them and blew them away. Then they faced what I thought would be a tough test against Argentina, but once again, they won the game at a stroll.

Toughest

This evening they face the toughest test as they take on pre-tournament and still favourites, Spain. Despite Spain not yet reaching the heights that they displayed at Euro…

Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino would welcome Gareth Bale back at White Hart Lane if reports of a first option clause prove to be true.

Documents released by the Football Leaks website appear to show that Madrid paid €101 million to take Bale from Spurs in 2013 and also that the Premier League club have a clause to match any offers received for him.

Bale is enjoying an impressive campaign at Madrid despite Rafael Benitez s sacking in January and the ongoing calf injury that sees him sidelined from Zinedine Zidane s plans.

But Pochettino was open to the possibility of Bale returning, telling reporters with a smile:  I don t know – it s about rumour.

If we have the full option to sign him then why not?

He s a great player and he s a …

West Ham have completed the loan signing of Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike until the end of the season.

The 28-year-old s move was confirmed on Sunday, with the Premier League club retaining the option to make the switch permanent at campaign s end.

A 37-time Nigeria international, Emenike has already spent time on loan at Al Ain this season, scoring nine goals in 15 games.

I m very, very happy and very, very excited that I m here, Emenike told the club s official website.

I have always known West Ham as a great club. I ve always been watching them. West Ham s a great club and I m happy to be here.

I ve known him [Slaven Bilic] for years. When he was at Lokomotiv Moscow, I was at Spartak Moscow, then he came to Besiktas and I was in Fenerb…

aim to add to their defensive line, according to .

There is a feeling of urgency at the Catalan club to add a left back to their ranks. They have no natural replacements for the current occupant of the spot Jordi Alba, and that is a burning issue for them. It seems allowing Lucas Digne to leave this summer has come back to haunt them, even though manager Ernesto Valverde initially trusted Miranda in the role. Now he has changed his mind and he d like a more experienced option than the 18-year-old. Liverpool s Alberto Moreno, Atletico Madrid s Filipe Luis and Arsenal s Nacho Monreal have all been linked with a move to Camp Nou recently, and Barca are expected to make a move to sort the problem out as early as January.

The Blaugrana also want to sign another centre-back,…