Tottenham have been assured they'll be signing a future star in Metz teenage midfielder Pape Matar Sarr.

Tottenham have agreed a £14.5million deal to sign a teenage sensation dubbed the 'next Sadio Mane'.

Spurs are said to have struck a deal with Ligue 1 club Metz which will see 18-year-old Pape Sarr remain in France on loan this season before arriving in north London next summer.

Although he has been deployed as a defensive midfielder for the majority of his 28 senior appearances, he is able to play more advanced roles and was likened to the Liverpool forward by Senegal manager Aliou Cisse.

"Pape Matar Sarr is a boy with a great future," Cisse told Wiw Sport . "He is steeped in talent. For me, he's like Sadio Mane.

"It's true he has less experience than Mane and has proven less than him – but he is capable of playing in several systems."

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Metz general manager Olivier Perrin also says: "I immediately said to myself that he was a top player, with a very high-level (with regards to) reading and analysing the game. He is Miralem Pjanic.

"He can play in a system with two numbers 10, he can be middle and box-to-box, he can be 10, 6, it depends on the coaches."