Tottenham Hotspur starlet Mathys Tel was launched off the bench of their crushing Carabao Cup defeat away to Liverpool on Thursday night, however the Frenchman was one in every of only a few who confirmed flashes of high quality at Anfield.
Mathys Tel impresses as Tottenham crash out of Carabao Cup
Ange Postecoglou‘s largest recreation of the season thus far could not have gone any worse on paper, with Arne Slot’s facet swiftly and ruthlessly overturning their 1-0 first leg deficit to reign 4-1 victors on mixture.
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Targets from Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai and Virgil van Dijk handed Liverpool a cushty 4-0 win and booked their place within the ultimate at Wembley towards Newcastle United, all whereas dealing a seismic blow to Postecoglou, who was simply two video games away from a chunk of main silverware at Spurs earlier than kick-off.
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Tottenham’s subsequent 5 Premier League fixtures |
Date |
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Man United (dwelling) |
February sixteenth |
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Ipswich City (dwelling) |
February twenty second |
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Man Metropolis (dwelling) |
February twenty sixth |
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Bournemouth (dwelling) |
March ninth |
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Fulham (away) |
March sixteenth |
One small silver lining for the Lilywhites was Tel’s flashes of brilliance and general constructive efficiency, after coming off the bench to exchange Richarlison, who was pressured off with yet one more damage.
Tel was spotted waving his Tottenham teammates on against Liverpool and inspiring them to get ahead, whereas there have been additionally glimpses of his actual tidyness on the half-turn and attacking aptitude at occasions.
The 19-year-old, going off this cameo alone, may very well be essential in serving to to ressurrect Postecoglou’s stuttering marketing campaign. Past 2024/2025, the query stays – will Tel nonetheless be a Spurs participant subsequent season?
Journalist shares what Tottenham are literally planning for Mathys Tel
Tottenham are convinced they’ve signed a “generational talent” in Tel, with journalist Dean Jones now sharing what the longer term holds in retailer for him after Spurs signed the attacker on mortgage with an choice to purchase.
In accordance with Jones, talking on the Ranks FC Ultras Podcast, Tottenham fully intend to sign Tel permanently, however the reporter personally doubts whether or not Postecoglou’s latest recruit desires the identical factor.
“On the finish of the day, even when it was a dry mortgage, which it was going to be, in that second, I spoke to Tottenham and I wrote a narrative about it. It was like Tottenham nonetheless, I feel I tweeted it, I feel, moderately than wrote about it, it was like, Tottenham nonetheless intend to make this a everlasting signing,” stated Jones.
“Like, this isn’t what they need, like they’ll do it. If that is the way in which to do it, then all they’ll do over the next months is attempt to persuade him that that is the place for him.
“I nonetheless really feel just like the participant doesn’t totally need to go away Bayern Munich, and even when he does rather well right here at Tottenham, he may see it as, properly, if I do rather well, I can play for Bayern Munich once more. So possibly I’m being cynical about that, however I get that impression. He didn’t actually need this switch to occur, did he?
“It was solely when Man United pulled out that it got here again on the desk as a result of he needed to go there.
“Yeah, I imply, there is a component, I think about, that he actually did need to exit and get minutes, whether or not that meant he needed to depart Bayern completely or not, it’s a completely different query. However I’m fairly with this complete Ange Postecoglou getting on the cellphone and mainly being like, look, that is how I see you becoming into my system. That is the place I foresee you getting minutes.”
