The agent insists the 25-year-old is set to leave Ajax to join Spurs despite the sacking of Harry Redknapp.

"Nothing has changed at all. He is coming to Tottenham for the club and not for the manager," Vertonghen's agent Mustapha Nakhli said.

"Managers come and go. Of course Jan is sorry that Harry Redknapp is no longer there but he is going for the club.

"We have a good relationship with Daniel Levy. He wants the deal to happen and there is a good atmosphere (between us).

"I don't know when it will happen but the deal is close, very close."