Recent reports from Turkey have repeatedly insisted Tottenham Hotspur want to sign Galatasaray’s Victor Nelsson.
Erden Timur, the Turkish club’s vice-president has already made a few trips to London to hold talks with the Premier League side.
The centre-back is ‘determined’ not to leave Istanbul and wants to move to the north London club in this window.
That’s according to Hürriyet, who state the 24-year-old has asked club officials to accept Tottenham’s offer.
They have accepted defeat in retaining the Denmark international and have identified Tottenham’s Davinson Sánchez as a target to replace him.
The Colombian has a year left on his deal and the report states Ange Postecoglou’s side value him at €12m, which is €4m more than what Galatasaray have allocated to buy the Dane’s successor.
Hürriyet add Okan Buruk’s side are negotiating with Spurs to sell Nelsson for €25m and buy Sánchez for €8m, and whether Tottenham will accept these conditions remains to be seen.
The report indicates Galatasaray are treating this as two different operations rather than a swap deal involving the two players. If a deal for the South American doesn’t materialise, they will look at other options to replace Nelsson.
