The problems surrounding Tanguy Ndombele look set to continue, in fact, unless something rather seismic happens, the situation looks likely to come to a nasty head.
23-year-old Tanguy got off to bad start at Spurs, continuing the grand tradition of Spurs’ signing players with a backstory, opposed to someone who can assimilate without any great fuss. Arrives, holds up the shirt, all smiles, count to ten and wait for disaster to strike. José Mourinho was characteristically unsympathetic with a player taking a rumoured £200,000 a week, yet incapable of maintaining acceptable levels of fitness.
The Portuguese has naturally been accused of mishandling the situation, but what is one supposed to expect from a professional athlete? Plus, this is not a new situation. Ndombele already has form for being overweight and the discord that comes with it.
The bottom line here is that the Frenchman is on far too much money to be doing anything than working his socks off. IF he isn’t keeping in shape, and IF he isn’t busting a gut in training, then he hasn’t as the phrase goes, got a fat leg to stand on.
Get rid. Sooner he’s gone the better… Mental is everything at the top level.
Any proper player would get their head down and prove their manager wrong.. This bum has only just signed and cant even run on cue! Klopp and rodgers would never play him, he wouldnt get in liverpool or leicesters hard working teams.. I bet that klopp or rodgers would make no attempt to buy him in the first place.
Ndombele was not a punt signing, we paid top dollar for this player to perform from day 1. Not to bed in, give a few games here and there and see how it goes, or wait for him to buy the right furniture for his pad. He should have come in and shown all the other players how good he was, owned the training ground and worked his socks off to show he meant business. Levy is a shrewd businessman, so everyone says! Well, he got pummelled by Aulas on this. The same chairman who let Eriksen go for peanuts! Who buys a car without looking at the service history, buys a house at an auction without looking at the pack? It appears on this transfer that the Spurs scouting network is full of idiots, as though they looked at a showreel or the Man City v Lyon game and put in a bid. For the money invested, you’d think Spurs representatives would have spoken to Ndombele’s youth coaches right through to Lyon, and got a psychological and physiological profile together. Anyone of us can read up on this lad. It isn’t a secret what his history is, yet at the moment we have been left with a player who has talent, but we can’t get a tune out of him. Why can’t Ndombele have the attitude to prove both Poch and Mourinho wrong instead of reportedly showing a distinct lack of effort?
Looks like Tanguy may have downed tools and Mourinho is refusing to play him or maybe not, why have him in the team if he wants to exile him. He’s talented and I would love to see him in full flow with Lo Celso. We’re obviously not getting the full story. If he’s sold Levy will take a haircut nobody is paying full price for “damaged goods”.
Nail and head were hit in a previous blog about the players Levy buys from lique 1 Just another example of bargain basement or in this case over the odds purchasing from a chairman who doesn’t even like football.
ENIC OUT !
Not much of an Incentive from Ndombele when he knows that Mourinho wants rid of him.
I bet that under a good manager like Klopp or Rodgers he would would be playing top football. Although a Spurs fan for over 50 years and initially against better judgement willing to give Mourinho a chance I am sorry to say that we are not playing attractive football or winning matches.
Mourinho tries to mold players into an his outdated system. Defend Defend.
the new managers like Klopp play attacking football .. You have to score goals to win ( not whinge)