BESIKTAS expect Allan McGregor, the Scotland goalkeeper, to join their training camp a week today after the Turkish club confirmed that they are at an advanced stage in negotiations with the 30-year-old, who left Rangers after he refused to have his contract transferred to the new company.

A club official said that a proposed £4m move for David Ospina, Nice's Colombian internationalist goalkeeper, had collapsed and that McGregor – who remains in Scotland but is understood to be in dialogue with the Turks as well as at least two other interested clubs – was now the top target for the team who finished fourth in the Turkish league last season.

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