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Ex-Spurs Player Tanguy Ndombele

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Spanish Spur said:
This is what Ali Gold said on TFC podcast about Tanguy:

"the cycle of Tanguy Ndombele. It's the same thing every time. It's work hard, play well, everyone starts to praise you. Believe your own hype. Want to play at a higher level. Strop. Ask for a move. Don't get a move. Start at square 1 again"

This sounds right. Maybe the way spurs have been the last few years, yeah maybe he is better than us. sadly. But, and this is where his mentality needs to change: he should want to bring US up to his 'standards'. Kane and Sonny and Hugo have been doing just that. Very selfish and ungrateful mentality that one has.
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I really rate the guy's technical ability, but the only players who can be claimed to be above us are the ones who combine great skill with great effort and consistency. 1 out of 3 isn't good enough for the EPL. He's a stroppy man-child and needs a slap.

Hopefully this social-media slap will get him to have a look at himself. Honestly, if I could kick the 'sense of entitlement' out of today's stars, I'd walk down there with my best boots on.
 
NDomBadBoy said:
Ok so lets say Ndombele was Poch's signing and Levy did Poch a favor.

Why would you fire Poch a few months into the season without giving him a real shot to run the squad with your record signing. To make matters worse, Levy brings in an egotistical dinosaur that pushes away everyone to run the squad.

Again, it's on Levy/ENIC however you want to spin it.
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Bruh you’ll do anything to not blame Ndombele for being an overrated avg player with severe attitude issues.
 
It’s been said that Ndombele has not been a committed part of the squad this season but that’s just not true.

He even traveled to our away qualifier in Portugal just because he heard his teammates discussing tacos.
 
Macch said:
Show us where Poch touched you...

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Poch is way overrated on this forum.
 
I'd love to see Ndombele shine because great skill and vision are why I watch football. But tbh if four managers have run the rule over him and all had concerns then I doubt it's on Nuno. And there were stories of this from his time in France...

Attitude, psychological issues, family etc - it could be loads of things. No one here knows for sure what is going on, but we do know a) it is impacting his performance for us and b) top sport is pretty brutal, if you don't perform you are moved on quick. So Tanguy needs to knuckle down and have a good season. If he can't do that then it's best for all parties that he moves on. Can't afford to have a £60 million player on 200k a week stroppy or on the bench.
 
Spanish Spur said:
and as you and I well know about ex-pats in Spain. If they want to live a completely english lifestyle only eating at english restaurants and drinking at ex-pat pubs, hiring english workmen and not speaking a damn word of spanish, they seem to manage to do that perfectly easily. I've had a long time observing them with a metaphorical clipboard
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It's not just the plebs either...

In the mid 90s this girl I worked with, proper wannabe debutante, invited me to a party at the British Embassy in Madrid. Probably the worst party I've ever been to. I had the misfortune of being trapped by the ambassador's wife for a while, what a cretin.

Back then it was just off the Paseo Castellana, the major thoroughfare that cuts through the city north-south. She was trying to tell me where somewhere was, "the other side of the Cass Terlarna" apparently. I genuinely had no idea what she was talking about, she repeated it a couple of times before saying "you know, that big road just there".

So anyhow, I said "Aaah" and pronounced it normally. "Oh I refuse to pronounce their words properly" and went on to tell me how she shouted "A coffee with milk!" on the rare occasions she found herself in a café.

Realising that this woman was a puta subnormal and that I had no interest in my horsey work colleague, despite her (bizarre) interest in me, I beat a retreat, pausing only to take a revenge piss in their swimming pool before legging it.

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NDomBadBoy said:
According to Ali Gold it's Ndombele's attitude/ego that's the problem correct?

But then again, didn't ENIC/Levy do their due diligence on a player's fundamental character before spending a record fee on a player?

I'm not sure why we're just blaming Ndombele if that's just who he was to begin with. If we knowingly signed a player with attitude issues and didn't have what it took to change his attitude, then it's on management.
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Maybe we thought he might push on and become a good player and put in an effort for his wages
 
NDomBadBoy said:
Almost every job I can think of requires a background check of some type. It sounds to me like Levy/ENIC just overlooked this part and signed him because of his upside as you alluded to.

But there's zero excuse not to do an extensive background check when you're spending 60 million on someone. Just none.
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Almost every job i think of also requires an effort to earn your wages and if youre not up to scratch you get the boot too.
Be fit for your job
 
NDomBadBoy said:
Ok so lets say Ndombele was Poch's signing and Levy did Poch a favor.

Why would you fire Poch a few months into the season without giving him a real shot to run the squad with your record signing. To make matters worse, Levy brings in an egotistical dinosaur that pushes away everyone to run the squad.

Again, it's on Levy/ENIC however you want to spin it.
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On some level somewhere do you think maybe even .5 % of can attribute any sort of blame to the player himself?
 
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