Spurs to snatch United youngster Fryer as Fergie loses yet another starlet

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05:46 GMT, 6 July 2012

Andre Villas-Boas has locked horns with Sir Alex Ferguson just days after returning to the Premier League.

The new Tottenham boss is poised to sign ex-Manchester United youngster Zeki Fryers after the defender quit Old Trafford.

The 19-year-old is set to join the White Hart Lane club this week after his contract with the deposed champions expired last month.

Blow: Ezekiel Fryers (right) looks set to join Tottenham from Manchester United

United are demanding 4million for the highly-rated teenager but Spurs are only prepared to offer half that, according to The Sun.

Ferguson is prepared to hold off and allow a transfer tribunal to make the decsision.

Fryers is the third youngster to have left the club recently after Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison joined Juventus and West Ham respectively.