Tottenham Hotspur close in on deal to sign Swansea City’s Ben Davies
Davies has attracted interest from Spurs and Liverpool, with both clubs seeing the 21-year-old as a long-term solution to their problems at left-back, theguardian.com informs.
The Wales defender was expected to choose Champions League football at Anfield and a reunion with former the Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers, but Tottenham have moved quickly since having a bid accepted earlier this week.
Both Swansea and Spurs are currently on pre-season tours in America, which has been to Tottenham's advantage in conducting negotiations.
Davies played 45 minutes in a 1-1 draw with Chivas Guadalajara on Wednesday and was due to play in Swansea's final tour fixture, against Minnesota United, on Saturday before the squad flies home.
The Swansea manager, Garry Monk, wants to use any deal with Tottenham to engineer a return for the midfielder Sigurdsson, who was named in Tottenham's starting XI to play Seattle Sounders on Saturday night but was withdrawn from the side shortly before kick-off. Sigurdsson scored seven goals in 18 league appearances during a five-month loan spell at the Liberty Stadium in 2012.
Against the Seattle Sounders, Tottenham recorded a 3-3 draw at CenturyLink Field. Lewis Holtby opened the scoring with a close-range header for the Premier League side after 10 minutes but Gonzalo Pineda levelled from the penalty spot before the break after a foul by Michael Dawson to bring the home side back into the game.
Kyle Naughton suffered a head injury as the first half wore on following a collision with Jalil Anibaba but managed to play on and see the first 45 minutes out.
The Tottenham manager, Mauricio Pochettino, made six changes at half-time before Brad Friedel was beaten well by Osvaldo Alonso but Spurs were back level when the second-half substitute Roberto Soldado slotted a penalty home after he was bundled down by Chad Marshall.
Former Spurs star Clint Dempsey, who made the switch to the Sounders last year, received a cheer from both sets of supporters as he was subbed off with 20 minutes to go for Sean Okoli, who set up Tristan Bowen to put Seattle in front again but DeAndre Yedlin was penalised for handball and Iago Falque scored from the spot to make it 3-3.