Edited January 14Jan 14 by NestorGarde

Welcome to CFC, great signing and perfect for our squad.

Seems a promising talent but isn't his best position on the left wing? Are we signing another winger and hoping they can make it up top? 

Bayern fans seem to think highly of him so must be a good sign. 

54 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Seems a promising talent but isn't his best position on the left wing? Are we signing another winger and hoping they can make it up top? 

He's a striker that can play on the wings or rather has to cause he wasn't gonna start ahead of Lewa or Kane. 

37 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Bayern fans seem to think highly of him so must be a good sign. 

He's a striker that can play on the wings or rather has to cause he wasn't gonna start ahead of Lewa or Kane. 

What was his reason for playing on the wing at Rennes? Can't imagine they had any good strikers. 

He's one I pretty much always sign in Football Manager 🤣

1 hour ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

What was his reason for playing on the wing at Rennes? Can't imagine they had any good strikers. 

He was like 16 or 17 and they had Guirassy the player big clubs were looking at not that long ago. Also Terrier who is a solid Ligue 1 forward/winger.

Edited January 14Jan 14 by Remodez

8 minutes ago, Remodez said:

He was like 16 or 17 and they had Guirassy the player big clubs were looking at not that long ago. Also Terrier who is a solid Ligue 1 forward/winger.

So is this a bit like the Duran situation? Where its a good striker we could get for a bargain but probably isn't as rated mainly because of who is ahead of him for play time currently. Certainly prefer this to Delap looking at him on Youtube.

When i saw him play, i thought he played wide left keeping Sane out of the side. Then Sane's form picked up

Seems like a Gakpo type player. 

Never heard of him, doesn't seem a natural goal scorer like nkunku though, would rather keep nkunku and give him a run in the team guarenteed goals. 

I want to put a massive caveat that (obviously) football manager is NOT real life (before someone points out the obvious)

But putting the two into FM I got this (attached)

Both a of similar ability in game (though the game is out of date and there will have been progression), with Tel having a quite a bit higher potential

Both are kind of similar in profile, Delap is a few cms taller and a bit stronger. Tel is like a year or two younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathys_Tel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Delap

I absolutely would NOT be basing a decision on wikipedia pages or Football Manager, but it does give you a bit of an idea of their profiles.

Young, with limited playing data at the top level. Most of us don't know much about him. For that reason we are probably likely to sign him. Then no doubt he will be moving on within 18 months.

Nothing to say he wants to join us anyway.

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Nothing to say he wants to join us anyway.

Sounds like he would rather stay at Bayern and would probably only consider a loan. That being said Bayern are keen to get Nkunku so it may still happen.

18 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Sounds like he would rather stay at Bayern and would probably only consider a loan. That being said Bayern are keen to get Nkunku so it may still happen.

Smart boy

52 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Smart boy

In fairness, Bayern seem to do a better job developing youngsters than we do.

I bet Callum Hudson Odoi wishes he'd moved instead of rotting on Chelsea's bench and Musiala probably wouldn't have gottan the playing time here to prove himself that he did over there.

Not sure I like the idea of another young wide attacker who doesn't have good goal scoring stats. We need someone who is going to score goals, not another Sancho or Sterling. 

11 minutes ago, Sunspear_88 said:

Not sure I like the idea of another young wide attacker who doesn't have good goal scoring stats. We need someone who is going to score goals, not another Sancho or Sterling. 

In a league that is piss easy to score goals in, he doesn't have good goal scoring stats ... so sign him for the PL and what could go wrong LOL

Tel has scored 16 goals and 7 assists in 2,402 minutes for Bayern. That's a goal contribution every 104 minutes, why are we pretending like he's a really poor goal scorer? 

Liam Delap that every seems sold on has a goal contribution every 162 minutes, with 2 of those being penalties. Every 206 minutes without penalties. Every 225 minutes for Hull. Every 440 minutes for Stoke and every 616 minutes for PNE. Or on average every 242 minutes. 

If we're taking a risk on either, Tel should be first choice without a doubt. 

27 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Tel has scored 16 goals and 7 assists in 2,402 minutes for Bayern. That's a goal contribution every 104 minutes, why are we pretending like he's a really poor goal scorer? 

Liam Delap that every seems sold on has a goal contribution every 162 minutes, with 2 of those being penalties. Every 206 minutes without penalties. Every 225 minutes for Hull. Every 440 minutes for Stoke and every 616 minutes for PNE. Or on average every 242 minutes. 

If we're taking a risk on either, Tel should be first choice without a doubt. 

He needs game time to develop though and lots of it, he won’t get that here ahead of Sancho or Jackson. He will just be another option for Maresca to bring on at the 75th min. For the rumoured fee needs to be a player that moves the needle, and either benches Sancho/Jackson. I’d rather keep our powder dry till the summer and give those 15mins to Tyrique George.

21 minutes ago, ducavis said:

He needs game time to develop though and lots of it, he won’t get that here ahead of Sancho or Jackson. He will just be another option for Maresca to bring on at the 75th min. For the rumoured fee needs to be a player that moves the needle, and either benches Sancho/Jackson. I’d rather keep our powder dry till the summer and give those 15mins to Tyrique George.

I'm also more than happy to wait until summer and go all out for Gyokeres.

Bayern, reportedly in an effort to convince Tel to move here, have given him 0 minutes in their last 3 matches.

Apparently they want Nkunku, have agreed wages for him but can only make that happen if we buy Tel first.

Some reports say of we get Tel then we dont go for Garnacho so, from that point of view, maybe is a good signing. 

Bit he is not a striker, more a Kalou type better as a wide forward.

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

 

Bit he is not a striker, more a Kalou type better as a wide forward.

So a back up to another Kalou masquerading as a striker.. 

20 minutes ago, Jangz said:

So a back up to another Kalou masquerading as a striker.. 

Yup, but young and fits in the pay structure/model