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Player Watch: Georges-Kévin N'Koudou

yido_number1

He'll always be magic
Jun 8, 2004
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No he's not :facepalm:

He's quick and can run at defenders with pace but apart from two crosses (Fulham & Pre-season) his delivery is shocking and he never does anything with it. We need to find him a new club.
How many times have you actually watched him play for spurs to form that opinion?? I watch every spurs game and must have seen him start about 3 times? Clearly something is off behind the scenes because every time I've watched him play he has been a threat. Obviously it's not only Poch that hasn't played him as Dyche and the Monaco manager gave him no time but he has some talent there is just something off?

He'd have been great for a team like palace that play on the break and have space to run into. I think he'd actually be able to forge a career in a team like that. We won't give him the playing time to develop.
 

Kiedis

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Aug 4, 2013
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In terms out outlay, I think he's one of the absolute worst transfers we've ever done. He bases his game on going one on one with a full back, shifting the ball and whacking in a hopeful cross. Our game is generally not geared towards that, seeing as it's a terribly ineffective way of attacking. He lacks the understanding of the game to arrive in genuinely dangerous positions and being able to receive the ball in those positions. His game is still about the stuff that young pacy wingers need to outgrow if they're going to go anywhere in this game.
 

kaz Hirai

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Nov 5, 2008
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Does he though? He picks up the ball out wide, runs really fast at the fullback and does absolutely nothing with it.

Every single time.

88th minute, when the game is virtually over. I was kinda taking the piss

He's championship stuff
 

Hakkz

Svensk hetsporre
Jul 6, 2012
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How many times have you actually watched him play for spurs to form that opinion?? I watch every spurs game and must have seen him start about 3 times? Clearly something is off behind the scenes because every time I've watched him play he has been a threat. Obviously it's not only Poch that hasn't played him as Dyche and the Monaco manager gave him no time but he has some talent there is just something off?

He'd have been great for a team like palace that play on the break and have space to run into. I think he'd actually be able to forge a career in a team like that. We won't give him the playing time to develop.

Especially since Townsend has managed to become one of the first names on the teamsheet over there. There very definition of a streaky player.
 

thelak

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Aug 31, 2012
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From the glimpses we have seen I do think he could operate as an effective bench option with his pace coming on to stretch play late in a game

I don’t think we have seen enough to know what his consistent final ball is like

Put it this way - much worse players seem to have Been given far more chances than this guy even in recent years when the standard of our team has lifted

Still ridiculous how we spent a whole summer trying to wrap this deal up though
 

spursfan77

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Aug 13, 2005
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I’m assuming we are trying to shift him abroad before the end of the month. It’s best for his career he goes now isn’t it.
 

Davo99

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Dec 2, 2006
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Quite a bit of talk developing about a loan move to Besiktas. Hopefully there’s something in it.
 

hellava_tough

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Apr 21, 2005
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Quite a bit of talk developing about a loan move to Besiktas. Hopefully there’s something in it.

Just to follow up on Davo's post above, these two sites...

https://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/report-deal-in-principle-reached-for-tottenhams-9million-man/

https://spurs.vitalfootball.co.uk/r...-with-tottenham-for-out-of-favour-midfielder/


...are citing this Turkish site as their source:


https://www.trtspor.com.tr/haber/futbol/super-lig/besiktas-kevin-nkoudu-ile-anlasti-189853.html


No idea if TRT is a reliable news outlet or not (??)
 

Khilari

Plumber. Sort of.
Jun 19, 2008
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How many times have you actually watched him play for spurs to form that opinion?? I watch every spurs game and must have seen him start about 3 times? Clearly something is off behind the scenes because every time I've watched him play he has been a threat. Obviously it's not only Poch that hasn't played him as Dyche and the Monaco manager gave him no time but he has some talent there is just something off?

He'd have been great for a team like palace that play on the break and have space to run into. I think he'd actually be able to forge a career in a team like that. We won't give him the playing time to develop.
He undoubtedly has talent - which is why he made it as an elite professional football player at the very top level (Ligue 1, EPL).

But sadly his talent alone isn’t good enough at Spurs. Massive difference between him being able to pull off a trick once every few months in some games and playing at the highest level needed in world club football for Tottenham regularly.

He may yet make it somewhere else, but with the likes of Sessegnon and Lo Celso also challenging him for a place on the bench, I suspect his time is up.
 

Sandro30

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Jul 7, 2011
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Surely not

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Transferts-georges-kevin-nkoudou-vers-besiktas/1050816

After being loaned last January to Monaco , the attacking midfielder Tottenham Georges-Kévin Nkoudou will not extend his lease in the club London. The Spurs and the club Besiktas found Tuesday night an agreement in principle around the transfer of the former International Espoirs (24 years). The amount of compensation has not been accurately filtered, but it would be around EUR 5 million, with a high percentage on resale.

The former Marseille, arrived in Tottenham in 2016 , should commit in the coming hours for four years with the Turkish club, qualified this season in the Europa League.
 

Fluteryid

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