Christian Eriksen has Bees buzzing on deadline day, while Man City sign a striker

Christian Eriksen returned to football with a deadline day move to Premier League side Brentford just seven months after suffering a cardiac arrest.

The 29-year-old, who collapsed while playing for Denmark at Euro 2020 last summer, was a free agent after leaving Inter Milan by mutual consent as rules in Italy prevented him from playing with a implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) device fitted.

The former Tottenham midfielder had been training with former club Ajax but has now agreed terms with Brentford having completed his medical assessments – although he is not due to travel to west London immediately.

Bees boss Thomas Frank, who worked with Eriksen while in charge of Denmark’s Under-17s squad early in his career, welcomed his compatriot to the club.

“We have taken an unbelievable opportunity to bring a world-class player to Brentford,” Frank said. “He hasn’t trained with a team for seven months but has done a lot of work on his own.

“He is fit but we will need to get him match fit and I am looking forward to seeing him work with the players and staff to get back towards his highest level.

“At his best, Christian has the ability to dictate games of football. He can find the right passes and is a goal threat.”

The club’s director of football Phil Giles said that, although the club would not divulge any of Eriksen’s private medical information, “Brentford fans can rest assured that we have undertaken significant due diligence to ensure that Christian is in the best possible shape”.

Spurs tweeted their best wishes to Erisken later in the day, moments before the departure of their club-record signing Tanguy Ndombele was confirmed.

The France midfielder returned on loan to former club Lyon for the remainder of the