Tottenham Hotspur have had a bid accepted for Kevin-Prince Boateng, the Hertha Berlin midfield player.
Seville were the first club to register an interest in the promising 20-year-old, the Primera Liga side lodging a £2.7million bid last week before Spurs upped the ante with a reported £5.4million offer.
Seville have since upped their offer, but Dieter Hoeness, the Hertha general manager, favours the deal put together by the north London club.
“The offer from Seville never interested us,” Hoeness said. “It was not enough, so we turned it down. We have accepted the offer from England and now the club and the player must reach an agreement.”
Boateng admits he was preparing himself for a move to Spain, but concedes that Sevilla’s capture of Seydou Keita, the Lens midfielder, coupled with Tottenham’s interest, has prompted a rethink.
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“We were quite advanced with Seville,” Boateng told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. “I have heard that [Seydou] Keita is joining, so I don’t know if that has any effect on me.
“The Premier League is actually my dream league and now I am thinking about Tottenham.”
Boateng has made 43 first-team appearances in two years as a professional with Hertha, scoring four goals, and earned his first cap for Germany’s Under-21s against England last October.