The 20-year-old left winger Mathys Tel has been a revelation for Tottenham in the final weeks of the season, playing an unsung role in Spurs reaching the Europa League Final against Manchester United while doing his absolute best to stave off the weekly embarrassment that is Tottenham's 2024/25 Premier League season.
Tel has endeared himself to the Tottenham faithful in every game, sealing his status as someone the supporters want to keep around long-term. The Bayern Munich winter loan acquisition may not be wanted by the Bundesliga giants, but he is doing everything he can to show that he wants to be part of the long-term future of Tottenham Hotspur.
And it looks like his hard work on and off the pitch is paying off. According to a report from German outlet BILD, via Daily Hotspur, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is now highly interested in keeping Tel permanently. Perhaps just as good, Bayern are indeed willing to negotiate down from the 50 million euro option to buy clause that was inserted in Tel's loan contract between Bayern and Tottenham.
Mathys Tel is good enough to start for Tottenham
In all honesty, Tel has been good enough on the pitch - with the added bonus of his fervent support for the club off it - that Tottenham should considering signing him for 50 million euros anyway. Which other, better attackers can they sign for less than that? The answer is simply, nobody.
That Bayern are willing to accept less is the proverbial cherry on top. The sundae, however, is the fact that the stingy big boss man himself, Daniel Levy, is significantly interested in Tel. Usually, Levy and his unwillingness to spend on any ambitious young star with world-class upside is the chief barrier to Tottenham getting a potentially game-changing talent.
That Levy is ready to go after Tel is a news item that effectively seals Tel's status as a Tottenham player for the future. Even Levy can see that Tel fits the culture of the club, wants to be here, has the short-term quality to fight for starting minutes, and clearly has the long-term potential to be a star player and maybe even the heir apparent to a declining 32-year-old Son Heung-min.
Tottenham fans, of course, are smarter than to believe a German tabloid's reporting or to believe that Levy will do the right thing with making an obvious signing. But, for now, the Tel transfer track looks quite optimistic for Tottenham.