What the club are saying publicly doesn’t entirely match up with what is happening privately at Hotspur Way. In the last few days, the press office at Tottenham took the uncharacteristically pro active step of quashing the rumour from The Guardian, which suggested talks were underway with Inter Milan, for Tanguy Ndombele.
The story put out by Spurs is that he’s injured and everybody has high hopes that Tanguy can be the big smash hit that was hoped for, when we paid a club record fee and matched Harry Kane’s salary, to secure his services.
Sources close to the club have suggested that whilst the Frenchman is not subject to exit negotiations, however, there is what can only be described as a massive issue with the player.
NDombele has made close to zero effort to assimilate with the group, as well as refusing to participate in any club promotional work. Alas, the 23-year-old is has cut a distanced figure at Hotspur Way, apparently, ever since Mourinho’s comments about the boy being “always injured”.
If one checks Physioroom, there is no return date and no condition update, which is frankly unusual; just the recent quote from Jose, “I know that Ndombele will not help us because his injury will keep him out for the next two matches.”
So is this all Mourinho’s fault? Of course, it is, why on earth should a player with form for unfit be expected to be fit to play all the time?! It’s Jose’s fault when it rains.
Any professional would become exasperated with a player that doesn’t pull his weight, especially with one enjoying such a lavish deal from his employer.
Mourinho is not the one to make the decision on Ndombele’s future, but our source believes that the Special One is more concerned with getting the deal for Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg done so Spurs can improve their midfield immediately. Waiting on Tanguy has become a thankless task.
Could Mourinho be hoping that Levy snaps, sells the Frenchman, and so provide the club with some unexpected transfer spends? Either way, this is a dangerous game and the timing could not be worse.
The last time he managed a full 90 minutes was December 2019…. Time to go home, we can’t waste another year carrying him on top wages. Top flop.
I disagree. He was our player of the season last year. He has been vital for us in the middle he breaks down attacks, intercepts, links up with defence and attack, he tracks back like a demon often covering players.. He’s a fighter.. He does alot of the dirty work.. Take him away and we have winks, lo celso and Ndombenchy… None of them get stuck in or do the rough work that sissoko does…. Replace him with a world class cdm all day long.. But we dont sign world class players.
They have a sporting director and a proper set up. Everyone allowed to get on with their jobs with no interference…. We have Levy… A fish rots from the head down.
He’s injured again! What the hell is wrong with the man! He is injured every other week. For a flake who doesn’t run at all. Who never makes the first team. He’s beyond a joke now… The dangerous game here is that Levy is going to buy this team. Expecting more rubbish and deadweight players coming in.. Overpriced, overpayed, and not good enough. 90 per cent judging on the past 4 or 5 years.
Read it twice and I am still unsure of the dangerous game he is playing.
I think the key is the Liverpool chairman doesn’t think he is a transfer expert and world renowned judge of football talent and leaves it to competent people to do the work for which they are qualified. In other words stick to land management.
This is a response to the comments in the thread and not the main post.
Here we go again Aurier, Ndombele and Sissoko.
It’s “Lets pick on the black players while Winks who gets more minutes and does fuck all for the team keeps getting away with it scot free” day again.
I don’t agree with Stewart Robson about Tanguy leaving, I’m not against Mourinho, but everything else he says here about Tanguy is 100% correct and is exactly what I saw .
https://youtu.be/FpOQfHf7OvU?t=245
Yup if we sold him and got a half decent right back that would give us about 15 points! Champions league easy. Then if Kane can remain uninjured for a season that’s another 15. Easy. Where are we now? Top!?
Unfortunately video clips can be very deceiving. I’m still waiting to see a video clip collection of his many bloopers!
I’m getting fed up with the amount of transfers that amass to nothing! Why when we spend a tonne of money does it almost always become a disaster!? Last season we bought who? Ndombele, Sessegnon, le Celso, Clarke, Bergwijn. Only two have added anything to our season. Why? Who’s fault is this? Scouts or Levy or manager? Whoever/whatever the reason serious change needs to happen. We need 5 out of 5 transfers to be successful and if not 4 out of 5. If not change the personnel. We are losing ground.liverpool seem to buy and sell very well. Copy their model!
Perversely his misleading montage of video clips of the player at PSG suggested otherwise!!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how many times TV commentators say Aurier gets into good attacking positions but let down by his final delivery!
Roobish. Sell the player quickly.
and this applies to several first team members!
Sorry to disappoint. Yes he has improved from a low grade and has won over some doubters but IMO Sissoko ain’t good enough at this level!
Re. Aurier he’s got to go and a decent RB that can be trusted replace him. When he first played at least his attacking play was quite good even if he was prone to defensive errors that cost us games. Now his attacking play is largely as unimpressive as his defending. But that’s what you get when you buy a PSG reject I guess.
Well what sort of injury has he got that allows him to come on from time to time yet remain allegedly injured? Reading between the lines Jose doesn’t want anything to do with him and regards him as a slacker. However the little bald god is stamping his little tootsies down screaming “you will play him because I wasted a lot of money on him, and it was the same time I wasted even more on Clarke and Sessegnon”, play him or I’ll look stupid”. I’ve got news for you baldy, everyone already knows you’re stupid. Talk about a comedy of errors.
He had a period recently when he appeared quite good.But this was more a reflection of how poor we had become and this season he has been average at best.I wouldn’t be sorry to see him gone along with Aurier and Dom.
We could easily do without him.
Sometimes in business you have to bite the bullet. Levy is not very good at this, witness his absurd valuation of Eriksen which eventually led him to being sold for circa £15 mill when Levy had previously valued him at around £130 mill. Mind you, it would make me laugh if Inter sell him for about €50 mill, talk about the biter bit. We should sell Aurier and N’Dombele if we can do it without suffering too much financial damage from the latter. Despite various protestations from the club, I suspect he is being discreetly touted for sale. He strikes me as another Pogba/Anelka type player who is too high maintenance.
I think Ndombele should take a leaf out of Sissoko’s book. He was jeered and taunted for well over a year, but he buckled down and worked hard. Now we couldn’t do without him.
Mourinho is just being Mourinho, but there is only room for ONE prima-donna at the club and it sure as heck wont be NDombele.
The club will not want to advertise the fact he’s up for sale as this would potentially affect his price. The way to get the best price would be to deny we want to sell him in the first place.
Yes. Hopefully AC Milan are serious about Aurier for £10-13 million.
IMO cut losses and sell both NDombele and Aurier for starters releasing funds for better recruits!