Ex-Celtic star on verge of transfer to potential Champions League rivals

The 34-year-old is present process a medical at Spurs, based on PA, forward of a proposed summer season transfer on a pre-contract settlement.

Forster’s contract with Southampton expires on the finish of June whereby he’s anticipated to hitch the North London aspect.

It’s an early transfer for supervisor Antonio Conte forward of the membership’s return to the Champions League with important funding potential this summer season to strengthen.

Spurs can be in Pot 2 of the group stage and may very well be potential opponents for Celtic which might imply a return to the membership Forster performed greater than 230 instances for throughout two spells.

A kind of spells was the 2019/20 marketing campaign the place he joined on mortgage and demonstrated his high quality between the sticks.

He was an enormous miss final season as Celtic struggled with their goalkeepers, with neither Scott Bain, Vasilis Barkas or Conor Hazard holding down the No.1 spot.

This season he was back-up at Southampton for the primary half of the marketing campaign however managed to play 24 instances as he earned a recall to the England nationwide crew.

Forster had seven seasons at St Mary’s, excluding the Celtic mortgage spell, taking part in 162 instances. Saints purchased him for round £10million however in solely two seasons did he handle greater than 30 appearances in all competitions.

At Spurs he’s anticipated to be No.2 to captain Hugo Loris, who has been No.1 for a lot of his ten years on the membership. Present back-up Pierluigi Gollini is because of return to Atalanta.