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Tottenham Match Capel Buy-Out Clause

Tottenham Hotspur could be on the verge of signing Diego Capel from Sevilla after agreeing terms with the player and meeting his buy-out clause, but a tax problem is holding up any move.

May 28, 2008 3:38:55 PM

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The north London club's coach has never hidden his desire to take the left-sided starlet to White Hart Lane and has met his €15m asking price, according to Diario de Sevilla.

A deal may have been wrapped up by now had Tottenham not requested that the two club's split the resulting tax bill, which totals almost €2.5m.

Sevilla were desperate for Capel to ink a new deal that would see his buy-out clause increase dramatically, but disagreements between the player's agents and club president José Maria del Nido have seen talks fail to begin.

One of Capel's representatives is Sergio Ramos' brother, René, and he along with Pedro Bravo, could push through the deal that would see their client triple his current salary in the Premier League.

Tottenham are believed to have agreed a four-year deal with the 20-year-old and he is keen to work with Juande Ramos once again after rising to prominence under him in Spain.

Capel's buy-out clause before he had played 40 league games for the club was €12m and that was when the English outfit first made contact and put forward their contract proposal to Ramos and Bravo.

Lucas Brown, Goal.com