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CONFIRMED! Tottenham midfielder Nabil Bentaleb joins Schalke on season-long loan

Nabil Bentaleb has joined Schalke on a season-long loan from Tottenham, both clubs have confirmed.

The 21-year-old midfielder passed a medical in Gelsenkirchen on August 18 and the final paperwork for the move to be finalised was received on Thursday.

Reports claim the German club have a £17million option to buy the Algerian international permanently at the end of his loan stay

"We're pleased that Nabil Bentaleb has decided to join us," Schalke's director of sport Christian Heidel said on the Bundesliga club's website.

"We've been working on this transfer for the past six weeks.