Inside Tottenham’s Lucas Bergvall transfer as Barcelona and Bundesliga club beaten to deal
Tottenham had to fend off four other clubs across Europe to sign Lucas Bergvall this month with two of them serious contenders.
The 18-year-old Swedish starlet will arrive in north London this summer after Spurs and Djurgarden agreed a deal this month reportedly worth around £8.6million for the midfielder. Bergvall chose Tottenham over a move to Barcelona in the final days before he put pen to paper on a five-year deal which will be begin when he arrives in July to link up with Ange Postecoglou‘s squad.
More details of the deal have emerged this week which suggest that other clubs were involved in the case for the gifted teenage Sweden international. On Monday this week, Djurgarden’s hierarchy held a meeting for the club’s members at their Tele2 Arena and during it, the Allsvenskan club’s sporting director Bosse Andersson spoke about the deal for Bergvall.
He explained during the meeting that Djurgarden had received five written bids for the teenager. They were from Tottenham, Barcelona and another unnamed Spanish side, a club in France and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany. Bergvall was given permission to visit Spurs, Barcelona and Frankfurt.
Eventually a deal was agreed between all parties for the Swede to head to Tottenham this summer. Spurs will play the transfer fee, a record sale for Djurgarden, in three instalments with the first of those due in September. Both the north London club’s medical team and their Djurgarden counterparts are set to remain in contact ahead of his big move on July 1.
Andersson also told Djurgarden members that there were performance-related add-ons within the Spurs deal that were all very achievable and also a resale clause – which was stated as being the “highest possible” – which would remain in place to some degree for further sales beyond that.
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It was also mentioned that Tottenham and Djurgarden want to set up a partnership going forward and the two clubs will meet in the next few weeks to formalise that. During the members’ meeting it was suggested that the partnership could result in the exchange of academy players, also with the potential of Spurs players heading to Djurgarden in the future.
There is also a plan for Tottenham and Djurgarden to play a friendly match in Stockholm in the coming years, although it is not at this point expected to take place on the artificial grass of the Tele2 Arena.
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