Tottenham are not ready to offer up to €50m for Tel, and want the boy-on clause price to be lowered.
While he has not exactly lit the world afire in North London on his loan spell with Tottenham Hotspur from Bayern Munich thus far, it was a move the opened the door to opportunity for Mathys Tel to gain valuable minutes — something he was not getting under Vincent Kompany at Bayern. When Bayern and Tottenham agreed on the loan deal during the winter transfer fee, a buy-on clause was worked in to the agreement, should Spurs choose to buy the Frenchmen on a permanent basis.
At Bayern, the club’s bosses have been hoping that Tottenham would trigger the buy-on clause at the end of the loan spell and buy Tel for somewhere in the region of 50-million euros. However, it is not looking like Ange Postecoglou’s side will want to spend that much on the attacker.
Per information from GiveMeSport’s Dean Jones (via @iMiaSanMia), Tottenham is going to try to negotiate that fee down for Tel. They plan on trying to wriggle the fee down to somewhere in the range of 35-million euros, which would be roughly 30-million pounds. It is understood that Postecoglou, Tottenham, the coaching staff, and his teammates have admired Tel’s attitude, work rate, and integration into the team in such a short window, hence the reason for wanting to explore the buy-on clause in the loan deal, albeit at a lower rate than Bayern would currently want.
Tottenham would also really like the opportunity for Tel to have a full pre-season with the squad and they feel confident that Kompany and Bayern do not have plans of working him back into the team. There could certainly be movement with either Serge Gnabry or Kingsley Coman, but Michael Olis has become a sure-fire starter under Kompany and Leroy Sané is now likely to get a reduced-wages contract extension. Nonetheless, a future with consistent minutes for Tel at Bayern seems highly unlikely, hence their preference to have Tottenham buy him permanently.
