Only 24 hours after it was revealed Tottenham Hotspur would make Mateus Fernandes the most expensive player in the club’s history, Sandro Tonali will make the switch to north London for even more than the £85 million ($112.8 million) it’s costing to sign the Portuguese.
Tonali’s Newcastle exit has felt inevitable for some time, increasingly so once the Magpies tumbled into the bottom half of the Premier League table and failed to qualify for any European competition.