Schalke have confirmed a loan deal for Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Nabil Bentaleb, who will join former Spurs midfielder Benjamin Stambouli at the Bundesliga club.
Bentaleb has been struggling for game time at Spurs after reportedly falling out with manager Mauricio Pochettino, and he will move to Schalke on a season-long loan.
French midfielder Stambouli has also completed a medical and is close to joining his former Spurs teammate at Schalke. The player left White Hart Lane in 2015 for a move to Paris Saint-Germain, but struggled to fit into the first-team plans of the French champions.
Schalke revealed that Bentaleb will train with the squad on Thursday after the two clubs agreed an initial season-long loan deal, with an option to buy next summer.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is believed to have been demanding at least £14 million for the 21-year-old Algeria international, who signed a five-year contract at Spurs in July 2015.
"We have an agreement with Tottenham," Schalke's director of sport Christian Heidel told a news conference. "We expect him to participate in training this afternoon."
Bentaleb made 25 league appearances in Mauricio Pochettino's first season at Tottenham, helping Spurs to a fifth-place finish, but he fell out of favour last term, and made just two league starts -- both in August.
The Bundesliga club's head-coach Markus Weinzierl added: "Nabil Bentaleb is 100 percent fit, but we need to be patient and give him a little time to integrate into the team."
Asked about Bentaleb last week, Spurs manager Pochettino said: "He is not with the first team because he wanted to leave. I think I explained very well. If he wanted to leave, he can come and see me, I say 'okay you can leave'. He is waiting to try to find a place away from Tottenham.
"Only that the rule is very clear: if you are not part of my plans, why are you training with us? He understands very well, like any other player. It is not a big issue, not a problem."
ESPN FC's Tottenham Hotspur correspondent Dan Kilpatrick contributed to this report