Tottenham had a very busy end to the winter transfer window.
Indeed, Spurs were making plenty of moves towards the end of January.
Kevin Danso arrived from RC Lens towards the end of the window, while Tottenham made a bid for Marc Guehi late in the day too.
Tottenham also wanted Fikayo Tomori towards the end of the window.
However, the most notable arrival at Spurs late in the transfer window was Mathys Tel from Bayern Munich,.
Tel made a dramatic U-turn late in the day as he joined Tottenham on loan on deadline day.
Tel had initially rejected Tottenham, but he decided to move at the eleventh hour.
However, Bayern Munich didn’t get the deal they wanted here.
Indeed, according to Duncan Castles, speaking on The Transfers Podcast, Bayern initially wanted to sell Tel in January, and they pushed for an obligation to buy clause to be inserted into this loan deal, but, for one reason or another, that didn’t happen.
Bayern Munich wanted to sell Mathys Tel
Castles shared what he knows about Tel after he joined Tottenham on loan.
According to the journalist, Bayern Munich actually wanted to sell the striker in January, but they had to settle for a loan.
“Then the other interesting thing they did was Mathys Tel from Bayern Munich and this is an interesting move in a number of ways because Manchester United inquired for the player, guidance I have from Manchester United is that the the loan fee that Bayern Munich were asking was so high that they didn’t take that to the point of discussing what an option to buy would be,” Castle said.
“Tel initially said no to Tottenham if you buy Ange Postecoglou’s explanation of what happened. It was because he thought very carefully about the move and was very ambitious and wanted to know exactly it was the right club for him and he has no doubts that Tel wanted to be there.
“What I’m hearing from the Bayern end is that they actually wanted to sell the player. They wanted to put an obligation to buy clause in the deal of 60 million euros. But in the end, it became an option to buy because the player insisted that he wanted the decision at the end of the season as to whether Tottenham was the right place for him to be.”
How Bayern Munich now feel about Mathys Tel’s loan move
Not only did Bayern Munich want to sell Tel in the January transfer window, they’re also disappointed that a deal couldn’t be done to sell the attacker.
Indeed, according to Christian Falk, writing on The Daily Briefing, Bayern are disappointed by the fact they weren’t able to shift the Frenchman permanently.
“Bayern would have liked to have sold Mathys Tel in the January transfer window. In fact, they were very disappointed that, at the last moment, Tel said, ‘No’ to a permanent move to Tottenham,” Falk wrote.
However, Tottenham did negotiate an option to buy Tel in this loan deal, so a permanent move may not be too far away.
Tel will sign a six-year deal at Tottenham if he does end up staying at Spurs, but whether or not that deal does go through in the summer remains to be seen.
Tel made his debut against Liverpool on Thursday, and he’ll be hoping to build on his first outing for his new club.