Leicester City midfielder James Maddison has hastily sought to delete past tweets critical of Tottenham.
Maddison is on the brink of joining Spurs after Leicester accepted a 40m offer. The midfielder has also agreed personal terms worth 170,000-a-week.
Fans online have started digging out old social media posts from Maddison slamming Tottenham and their former players. The messages were made when Maddison was barely a teenager.
In the first tweet, from November 17, 2012, Maddison wrote: "I hate Gareth Bale with a passion, calm down you monkey, [Jack] Wilshere is 10x better than you chimpanzee."
And in another, from March 10, 2013, Maddison posted: "Hope Luis Suarez destroys Tottenham today, don't like Spurs! Especially that monkey everyone's on about!"
Maddison was a trainee with Coventry City at the time. However, now on his Twitter account all posts before December 2019 cannot be seen.