Finding it next to impossible to replace their talisman Robert Lewandowski, Bayern urgently began to design a plan to once again have a top striker as soon as possible.
With Haaland off to Manchester City and no one else at Lewandowski's level available in the market, the Bavarians initially strengthened their attack by signing Sadio Mané from Liverpool.
Yet the risky bet was the search of an unknown player, only 17 years old, who is called to be one of the great emerging talents of European football. Mathys Tel. The Rennes center forward who had only played 79 minutes in the first division as a professional.
Tel: 'I have had no more experience.' A single participation in the first team of the French club and the rest of the season with the youth team. Bayern bet heavily on him to the point of paying 20 million in transfer fees when his market value was only 2m(transfermarkt).
Rennes also included a bonus of 8.5 million euros if a series of conditions were met. The total figure of 28.5 million makes him the most expensive underage player signing in history, ahead of another Bundesliga player, Jude Bellingham.
The player was promising but nobody except Bayern thought it would include him as a starter in the first team. There were several Bundesliga clubs that asked for him to be loaned out, so that he would get fired up. However, Bayern outright refused.
Today, he is Bayern's only real striker along side Choupo-Moting. In Saturday's match against Stuttgart, Tel got his first Bundesliga start and 36 minutes on the clock, got his name on the scoresheet and became Bayern's youngest Bundesliga scorer at 17 years and 136 days.
The previous record holder was Tel's teammate Jamal Musiala, who was 17 years and 205 days old when he scored in an 8-0 victory over Schalke 04 in September 2020. Last month, Tel became Bayern's all-time youngest goalscorer in the DFB-Pokal with a goal against Viktoria Köln.
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