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There was a time when every young French forward who burst onto the scene usually found themselves being compared with Thierry Henry. Particularly if they had a penchant for cutting in from the left. These days, however, those rising stars from across the Channel tend not to be referred to as the second-coming of Henry but as the ‘new Kylian Mbappe’ instead. It’s a moniker that came the way of Mathys Tel when swapping Rennes for Bayern Munich to the tune of nearly £20 million before his 18th birthday, and a nickname he has gone some way to justifying with a handful of explosive right-footed fi…

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