Tottenham Hotspur have finally announced the signing of a new striker - the Russian Roman Pavlyuchenko, who joins the club from Spartak Moscow for a fee believed to be in the region of £12m.

Pavlyuchenko told reporters earlier this week that he had agreed a move to Spurs and was photographed arriving in London yesterday to take a medical with the north London club. The 26-year-old's signing was officially announced on the club's website this afternoon.

The striker, who scored three times at Euro 2008, has been capped 22 times by Russia, scoring nine goals. He was the top goalscorer in the Russian top flight in both 2006 and 2007.

Tottenham sold Robbie Keane to Liverpool at the beginning of August and seem set to lose Dimitar Berbatov to Manchester United before the end of the current transfer window. They lost both their opening matches of the new season, with Darren Bent starting both matches as a lone striker.