Atletico Madrid person agreed a £34.2m (40m euros) interest to motion Cristian Romero from Tottenham.
The 28-year-old is acceptable to go Atletico's 4th signing of the summer, portion Spurs volition besides clasp a 15 per cent sell-on clause arsenic portion of the deal.
Argentina planetary Romero was the taxable of involvement from Premier League champions Arsenal successful caller days, but Tottenham did not privation to merchantability their skipper to their northbound London rivals.
He leaves Tottenham aft 5 seasons, having made 156 appearances for them, scoring 13 times, pursuing an archetypal run connected indebtedness from Atalanta successful 2021.
The centre-back played for Argentina during their tally to the World Cup last this summer, missing conscionable 1 game.
Romero was scheduled to instrumentality to pre-season with Spurs successful the coming week aft being fixed other clip disconnected pursuing the tourney successful North America.
He captained the broadside past play arsenic Tottenham narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League.
Having signed permanently from Atalanta successful a £42.5m deal, Romero became a cardinal fig successful their defence.
The quality volition beryllium a stroke to Spurs fans who are besides acceptable to lose Djed Spence to Inter Milan, who are successful precocious talks to motion the England full-back successful a £25.6m (30m euros) deal.
With the additions of midfielders Kang-in Lee and Morten Hjulmand and left-back Alejandro Grimaldo, Atletico are acceptable to instrumentality their transportation spending implicit £100m this summertime should they implicit the Romero deal.
Head manager Diego Simeone is aiming to fortify his squad aft they finished 4th successful La Liga past season, with Villarreal beating them to 3rd place.
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