Now Blues boss Steve Bruce has confirmed that he is still pursuing the Egyptian international striker, who is also being targetted by Sunderland and Fulham.
Bruce said: "It was all sorts of things like length of contract, stipulations in the contract.
"Those seem to have been ironed out so, if talks are ongoing again, then great. We made the best offer we can to the player so we'll see what happens.
"It'll be a permanent transfer if it happens. That's where it got clouded initially.
"We were thinking we were going to get a loan deal for a year but it became obvious Tottenham didn't want that.
"They wanted