Spurs have announced the signature of Tel on loan from Bayern Munich in the last hours of the day of the deadline for transfers. The Frenchman, who initially rejected the offer of the club in northern London, finally joined them after the English team accepted a short -term loan contract with a purchase option for 55 million euros with the Bavarian giants.
Before his transfer to Tottenham, the big English clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal were eager to recruit him. United negotiated with the Bundesliga giants, but then retracted after hearing their loan request of 5 million pounds sterling. The Blues would have tried to divert the transfer of loan and made an offer when such was waiting to fly to join the Spurs on the day of the transfer date. However, at that time, this had agreed to join the Northern Londoners after a discussion with Manager Ange Postcoglou, according to the Team.
Chelsea tried everything
Since he joined the Postcoglou team, the young 19 -year -old French prodigy revealed that his teammate from Bayern and Spurs legend, Harry Kane, had played an important role to convince him to join the club. Chelsea had recruited the Brazilian winger Willian in similar circumstances in 2013, tearing him out of the nose and beard of the Spurs.
It remains to be seen if the teenager will make his debut with his new club on Thursday, while the Spurs will face Liverpool during the return match of their semi-final of Carabao Cup.
