What people are saying about Mathys Tel behind the scenes at Tottenham after £29.6m move

Alasdair Gold has shed light on what many at Tottenham Hotspur noticed about Mathys Tel during his loan spell at the club that convinced the club to push ahead with a permanent deal for the Frenchman.

The 20-year-old has become Tottenham’s first signing of the Thomas Frank era, with Spurs paying £29.6m for Tel, which was a considerable discount on the £45m purchase option they had on the forward.

The reason Bayern Munich were forced to drop their price was that the youngster...