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Ex-Spurs Player Tanguy Ndombele
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The last line on the OS can be read in two different ways:
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Subtle, but it's there?
The 120m deficit in our finances will be felt for some time I suspect.
Daniel will remember that for sure for a long time… but we don’t have to
Think NDombele with Lamela’s heart - that’s what I would have wanted to see.
Good riddance you utter prick.
And Son's ligaments.Think NDombele with Lamela’s heart - that’s what I would have wanted to see.
That would be some player.
But that's just one game, presumably he's not responsible for watching him on a weekly basis and profiling him for mentality, consistency, atechnical and physical ability?
I will give Tanguy some credit.
He was such a bad signing that it actively forced the club to retool the entire recruitment and scouting department.
He was such a bad signing that it actively forced the club to retool the entire recruitment and scouting department.
Ndombele was fine in France. He was fit, good work rate and pretty much the opposite of what he's known for.
Almost as if England was too much a step up for him physically mixed in with being paid a ridiculous wage and he lost any kind of motivation due to it.
I'm not sure to be honest, I spoke to a psg fan who said the issues were evident back at lyon also
In my world drive and ambition comes from the brain.
I watched Ndombele quite alot that season before we signed him because he came up on a list of Dembele replacements and he caught my eye against City and that's definitely not the impression I got.
And it's certainly nothing anyone else brought up when we were linked or when we bought him either. Bar an issue when he was at amateur level pre-Lyon days.
This was a guy who was one of, if not (alongside De Jong) the best young midfielders in the world at the time. You're not called that if you're lazy without it being seen.
It's just a shame how it ended. Could have been a Spurs great if he had the mindset of some of those around him at the time (Kane, Son, Vertonghen etc). He didn't. He overstayed his welcome, wasted a ton of wages and ended with his career and reputation in tatters.
Good riddance.
Everybody know before we even signed him that it was a risk. He was known to be lazy.
I must have been blind then because that definitely wasn't the impression I got when watching him a good 25 or so times before he signed or from the reaction of the links and signing him.
There was one article about him being lazy at amateur level, think when he was at Amiens, which was 3 years before we ever signed him.
Bruno Genesio was apparently very good at keeping him motivated.
Probably involved a lot of
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Same word TBF. ( in my defence ) .
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