Two reasons why Tottenham beat Man Utd to Mathys Tel on deadline day - Report
Tottenham Hotspur were reportedly willing to satisfy two conditions that Manchester United were not, which is why the Lilywhites proved victorious over the Red Devils in the race to land Bayern Munich striker Mathys Tel.
Delight for Spurs after late Mathys Tel transfer turnaround
Tottenham’s pursuit of Mathys Tel looked dead in the water a couple of days ago, but Spurs have seemingly managed to pull off the impossible and strike a loan deal for the wide-forward in the final hours of the window.
Florian Plettenberg told Sky Sports News a little while ago that United were in talks over a deal for the Frenchman until Sunday evening before the negotiations fell through.
The journalist revealed that the 19-year-old decided to join the North London side as he felt that they offered the best project in terms of assuring him game time until the end of the season.
Why Tottenham beat Man Utd to Tel’s signature
Transfer expert Graeme Bailey has now explained to United in Focus that there are two main reasons why Tottenham beat Man Utd to the Bayern Munich man’s signature.
One of those is that the German club demanded a substantial loan fee of £6.5m for just a four-month loan spell, which the Red Devils had no interest in paying.
However, Tottenham agreed to pay the amount to the Bundesliga giants to secure the teenager’s services on a temporary deal.
Additionally, Bailey states that Rubem Amorim’s men were insisting on adding an option to buy to the loan deal, while Spurs were more receptive to a straight loan agreement, which worked out in favour of Tottenham.
Did Tottenham change their stance out of desperation?
Historically, Spurs have not tended to make loan signings without an option to buy as in cases like that the benefit of developing a player goes fully only to his parent club.
However, on this occasion, the Lilywhites were seemingly desperate to add some firepower to their squad before the deadline, which might be why they decided to agree to straight loan deal.
It means that signing Tel permanently is going to become incredibly difficult for Spurs in the summer if he does well over the coming months as his value will skyrocket and there will be intense competition for his services.
Tel will become Tottenham’s third signing of the January transfer window following the arrivals of Antonin Kinsky and Sunday’s confirmation of Kevin Danso’s transfer from RC Lens to bolster the Spurs defence.
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