Arsenal, Liverpool and Man United track young French defender

Arsenal, Liverpool and Man United track young French defender
Tylel Tati of FC Nantes pictured in August 2025. Photo by IMAGO / PsnewZ

Tylel Tati, FC Nantes' new gem, is already on the radar of Europe's biggest clubs. 3 Premier League heavyweights are observing him closely.

At only 17 years old, Tylel Tati is already establishing himself at FC Nantes. The young centre-back has thus played the Canaries' first six Ligue 1 matches this season as a starter and in full. An adductor injury prevented him from continuing in this month of October.

Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United tracking Tylel Tati

Thus, the French side, who sold Nathan Zeze for £17.1m to Neom, seem to have already found his successor within their training centre. However, such a phenomenon of precocity inevitably attracts the gaze of other sides. Barcelona are thus scrutinising this Ligue 1 defender.

Tylel Tati Nantes
Tylel Tati of FC Nantes pictured in August 2025. Photo by
IMAGO / PsnewZ

But the Blaugrana are far from alone in this matter. In Germany, RB Leipzig and Bayer Leverkusen are closely following Tylel Tati's evolution, who is also courted in the Premier League. Indeed, according to information from Caught Offside, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United have sent scouts to closely observe the Canaries' gem.

Tylel Tati, an element to follow on the 2026 transfer market?

These 3 English heavyweights are thus closely monitoring the Nantes defender, in the same way as Tottenham, Brighton, Brentford and Aston Villa. Significant competition is therefore already announced in this matter, whilst the France U18 international only has 6 professional matches in his career.

Valued at £5.1m by Transfermarkt, Tylel Tati is under contract until June 2028 with FC Nantes. The latter surely do not envisage parting with their young centre-back in 2026 and will certainly want to extend him when he reaches adulthood, on 19th January next. In any case, Caught Offside have passed on a message: “If his current progress continues, expect Tati to be the headline act of the market in 2026”.

This article was originally published on Top Mercato.


Editorial manager and football enthusiast, Axel stays on top of all the key football news, even if he maintains a particular attachment to clubs in the North of France - from Lens to Lille via Dunkirk - since he no longer lives there.