The winter transfer window dust has all started to settle and what seemed like a long transfer saga pakced into a short window of time has ended with Mathys Tel getting loaned out to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. Bayern Munich had been trying to figure out what the best move for his future would be, and there were a number of other clubs in England interested in trying to get him before the winter window closed.
Tel is officially going on loan to North London to join Ange Postecoglou’s on a six-month spell as a troubled Spurs side looks to turn their season around. At the end of the loan spel, there is a buy-on option for Tottenham to make a permanent purchase of the French youngster for a fee of 55 million euros on a six-year deal. Bayern wanted to have the buy-on clause attatched to the loan and were able to make it happen.
In recent days, Manchester United had expressed heavy interest in trying to get Tel, but the ultimately did not follow through with getting him and the window of opportunity was closed for the Red Devils. Ruben Amorim has already had a rather tumultuous tenure in Manchester, having taken over for an ailing Erik Ten Hag squad that has been severely underperforming for quite some time now.
Per information from The Telegraph’s James Ducker, United did not want to pay the six-million-euro loan fee that was being asked from Bayern for Tel (via @iMiaSanMia). Internally at United, Tel was deemed to be too much of a risky investment for a young player that does not yet have enough of a track record for what they were looking for. They need goals up front and they need them fast, so Tel, for them, was not worth the gamble, albeit a relatively cheap one in the grand scheme of things.
For Amorim, neither Rasmus Hojlund nor Josuha Zirkzee have been cutting it up front for a heavily under pressure United side. The attacking issues have been compounded my Marcus Rashofrod’s almost self-induced alienation from the squad and he has now made his move to Aston Villa on loan. Depending on how Tel winds up doing in his loan stint with Tottenham, this could prove to be either a massive mistake from Manchester United, or a bit of a bullet dodged.
