Cardiff City announce Ollie Tanner signing just months after he turned down Tottenham move

Cardiff City have confirmed their third transfer of the summer window as 20-year-old Ollie Tanner becomes the latest player to join the Bluebirds.

Cardiff's interest in the youngster, who signs from non-League club Lewes FC, was first reported by WalesOnline last month. The Bluebirds invited him for a trial period which has ultimately been successful and following a medical on Tuesday, the player put pen to paper on a two-year deal with City.

It is understood Tanner, for whom Cardiff are believed to have paid £40,000, is indeed a signing for the first team and not for the under-23s. He officially becomes a City player on June 10, when the transfer window opens.

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Cardiff were linked with Tanner at the back end of the January transfer window, but so, too, were Southampton, Luton, Watford, Brighton and, most notably, Spurs.

The forward, who can operate on either wing as well as in the No.10 position, had the opportunity to sign for Tottenham in January but rejected the north London club. In a statement, Tanner's club wrote at the time: "Lewes Football Club would like to confirm that whilst the club and a Premier League club agreed a deal in principle for the transfer of Ollie Tanner, Ollie and the Premier League club were not ultimately able to agree personal terms and he remains a Lewes FC player."

Tanner, who was on the books at Arsenal as a youngster before moving to Bromley in 2018, played out the rest of the season with Lewes, who finished seventh in the Isthmian League Premier Division, but it was always expected that clubs higher up the football pyramid would go in for him again in the summer.

And that has happened, with Championship outfit