Tottenham called on a flowering when the winter market closed. Two players drew in the last 48 -hour frenzy, initially on loan, but with Ange Postecoglou both promises to be both for the long term.
One, Mathys Tel, is a teenage wonder kid from France, a fast and versatile attacker inevitably compared to Kylian Mbappe and Het Hof made a move from Bayern Munich through various other Premier League clubs.
The other, Kevin Danso, is an international center that comes back in its first years, older, more experienced and stress tested in the top layers of three countries, including an overwhelming season in Southampton.
They will both be immersed in a team that will defend a lead of one goal weather in Liverpool on Thursday in the semi -final of the Carabao Cup, with Spurs on a Crusade to win a big trophy for the first time since 2008 and Postcoglou is trying to save a season That a season that tries to save that a season that tries to save a season. Is flirted with a disaster.
The cups promise salvation, especially the Europa League with its golden ticket to the Champions League, but first hijacked the Carabao Cup and a glimpse of the reinforcements danso from wolves to fill the emptiness that was left by Radu Dragusin's serious knee injury and tel Sweet Talked in the movement by Postecoglou after it had become wrong.
“I felt that if I were to keep him on the phone for long enough, I would wear it out and he fell asleep at the end,” said the Spurs boss, who weave his dry, self-reinforced mind with more serious factors about it Locating a positive bond with tel during their two hours of dialogue and respecting his right to take his time and weigh his options.
Tel is a rare talent, used to praise since a young age, and yet those who have seen him in Munich speak about a popular, intelligent and friendly young man with an exemplary attitude.
“I have never known that a player did not score or even play in every match that is so loved by the fans,” said Julien Wolff, of Die Welt, who has reported on Bayern since 2011.
'He is a cool guy, very hungry with lots of potential and is a good signature for traces. But he has to play, he must get his minutes. When he first signed, Julian Nagelsmann was Bayern's coach and said Mathys 40 will score goals in the Bundesliga and he didn't do it.
“Some people say it was a tactical problem, others that he didn't have the chance and that he had to play to find the rhythm and the current.”
Tottenham is banking on the last. They have on loan until the end of the season, but are convinced that the conditions of the deal mean that he will join permanently in the summer, with the costs that combine a publication of around £ 53 million.
“I didn't bring him here for six months,” Postecoglou said when he was asked if he expected him to have in the club next season. “He will be a Tottenham player.”
Spurs seem satisfied with themselves, a feeling strengthened by a rare outing by technical director Johan Lange on the media channel of the club.
“A fantastic talent,” was his judgment on Tel. 'He is in a very unique group of players who have played a lot of football at a young age at a very high level, with about 60 games for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and 15 or 16 in the Champions League on 19.
'He is a versatile attacking player who has the X factor, he will bring excitement to the stadium. He is a player that we cannot wait to free up and want many fantastic experiences together. '
Tel will compete for a place on the front three while Danso arrives to illuminate the crisis on the back, intensified by Dragusin's cross magazines and worrying fitness updates about Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero.
Van de Ven returned last week of three months of hamstring problems against Elfsborg, but Postecoglou is worried about data lectures from that game and in training and wants to add him back to the team until he is sure that the risk of another relapse has expired.
The same applies to Romero, who had been close to a return, but it is not.
Danso, signed of Lens for a £ 20 million deal that will become permanent in the summer, offers immediate help to Postecoglou instead of the potential to develop over time, like so many other recent signing sessions.
He is 26, an international in Austria who grew up in Milton Keynes and started in the Academy at MK Dons.
“Kevin was very long and physical when he came to us,” recalls Jon Dewick, who coached him in the group under 11 of the club.
“He wanted to play in the front, he loved running and scoring goals, and we always tried to play him back in the middle because he was strong and we wanted to improve his technical details in that area.”
Danso came to a fair at Augsburg in Germany and made his Bundesliga debut in March 2017. A year on loan in Southampton in 2019/20 was not a great success.
Baas Ralph Hasenhuttl initially used him left behind, but Saints had a difficult start to the season. Danso was sent to Manchester United and Hasenhuttl settled three without him in a back, although he came in the 9-0 to Hameren through Leicester during the break.
He only appeared in the Premier League again in a season interrupted by the Pandemie, his last game came in a FA Cup -Easy game with Spurs in January 2020.
He returns in the heat of Anfield with Postecoglou in the hope that his signing sessions will have the desired effect at the end of January.
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