Zenit St Petersburg and Andrei Arshavin

Zenit St Petersburg have broken the Russian transfer record to sign Portugal international Danny from fellow Russian top flight side Dinamo Moscow.

The midfielder cost the Russian champions 30 million euros (£23.9m), eclipsing the previous record set by Dinamo themselves when they paid 16 million euros for Danny's compatriot Maniche from Porto in 2005.

Zenit boss Dick Advocaat said: "We've been interested in Danny for a while now. I consider him the best midfielder in the Russian league and he can become a very useful member of our team.

But Advocaat was quick to deny Danny's arrival in St. Petersburg signalled the end of the club's association with Russian international Andrei Arshavin, currently linked with a move to Tottenham.

Zenit have revealed that even if their valuation of the player - around £20million - was met, it was now too late for a deal to be done.

Tottenham have been locked in talks about signing the highly-rated forward all summer - but a deal was never struck.

Now with Dimitar Berbatov set to depart the club, and Arshavin's countryman Roman Pavlyuchenko signed, it was claimed Spurs would again come back to try to make it a double Russian swoop.

But Zenit say that cannot now happen and Arshavin would be staying until January - the next transfer window - at the earliest.

Zenit managing director Mixim Mitrofanov has told Sky Sports News that they would no longer considers any bids for Arshavin.