Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday completed the signing of Cote d’Ivoire’s defender Serge Aurier from Paris Saint-Germain.
The deal which is for five years, is reported to be worth £23 million.
Spurs have been in the market for a new right-back after selling
Kyle Walker to Manchester City for a deal worth up to £50m in July.
Aurier, 24, follows centre-back Davinson Sanchez, goalkeeper Paulo
Gazzaniga and defender Juan Foyth in making the move to North London
this summer.
Commening on his move, Aurier told Spurs’ official website: “This
is a huge and exciting opportunity at a massive football club and I am
determined to prove myself as a professional both on and off the pitch.
“This is a fresh start for me and I will do everything to make the
Spurs fanbase, which is huge and diverse, proud of me. The fans are the
most important people at any club and I am looking forward to showing
them and everyone at Spurs the real Serge Aurier.”
Aurier joined PSG, initially on loan, from Toulouse in 2014 and has
made 54 Ligue 1 appearances in three seasons with the French club.
He has 41 caps for Cote d’Ivoire and was part of the squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.
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