The Mathys series Tel of last winter had caused a lot of ink to flow. Throughout the month of December and January, the French prodigy of Bayern Munich was linked, directly or indirectly, to several projects in Europe: an interest of OM was mentioned before dissipating, a total agreement with Tottenham had been announced, the idea of an exchange with Christopher Nkunku in Chelsea was serious before falling into the water, then the Spurs finally rejected the purchase is 55 million euros, with a six -year contract.
An integration he judges “Positive”
Arrived at the end of the London training at the end of January, the 19-year-old international hopes had known first 45 minutes very complicated on the lawn of Liverpool, during a big 4-0 defeat. Scorer the following week against Aston Villa, Mathys Tel had then won his place in the attack of the Spurs with Dejan Kulusevski and Heung-Min Son. But after five starts in a row without scoring, the ex-Rennais returned to the bench and his playing time has drained drastically.
Last March, the one who was able to find a smile with the Blueberries, said that his integration among the Spurs was “Positive. I am a pretty ambitious person so I want to have more. From a general point of view, I am very satisfied with the staff, the team, the fans. Everything is going well. I hope we will continue on this momentum and do even better ” But in the last three days, he only played 19 minutes of play, but will still have managed to score his second goal, against the Red Lantern Southampton (3-1).
Tottenham reluctant to lift its purchase option?
Too low yield for the 14th of the Premier League, which hoped to go up quickly to the first part of the table. And several German sources claimed that Tottenham no longer wanted to activate its purchase option due to this bad performance. At a press conference this Saturday, Ange Postcoglou refuted this idea, saying that “Mathys is important to us. When he arrived, people forget him, he had hardly played Bayern and we launched him. He played a match after match and it was not won in advance, but it was the challenge he took up “.
“Now we are working with him in training, we really believe that he can have an impact and physically, he is much better now. He is in a much better condition and he understands our game much better. I always think it is an exciting talent and I am happy to have it ”added the Spurs coach, who hopes to count on a return in the form of the 19 -year -old French to trigger a positive end of the season in the league and a Europa League to get.
