Tottenham are closing in on the signing of goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky from Slavia Prague.
The club are keen to strengthen in that position in the January transfer window, with Guglielmo Vicario still out with an ankle injury and Fraser Forster at times failing to convince as his deputy.
It is expected that Spurs will pay £12.5million plus add-ons to sign Kinsky in a permanent deal, after a verbal agreement was reached between the two clubs for the 21-year-old.
Kinsky is a Czech Republic U21 international and has played all six matches in the Europa League for Slavia this season.
He will not be in attendance as Spurs host Newcastle in the lunchtime kick-off on Saturday, but reports suggest he is in the UK and is set to undergo a medical later in the day.
With Forster missing the match against Newcastle with illness, Brandon Austin is making his first competitive start for Tottenham.
Speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday, Ange Postecoglou suggested Vicario is still some way from making his return to first-team action.
The Spurs boss said: “He's on schedule, it's obviously when it's a fracture, there's a kind of set schedule for him being in a boot, how much weight bearing he can do, and then sort of getting clearances along the way, so he's still sort of on the same timelines of end of February.
“I think was the initial prognosis, nothing's really changed in the short term.”
