Tottenham hold talks over terminating Tanguy Ndombele's deal

[mawspurs]

Tottenham have held internal discussions about terminating Tanguy Ndombele’s contract at the club. The 26-year-old midfield flop has two more years left on his £200,000-a-week deal in north London. Ndombele’s value has plummeted further during his unsuccessful loan spell at Napoli this season.

Source: Football Insider

 

[Paceyjg]

I remember when I watched him warm up in his first Spurs game (televised). The wife wandered into the living room and I proudly stated that was our record signing! "Whys he fat?" she said.

And yet someone who probably earns a shit load more money than my wife, decided he was worth £54,000,000!

 

[mattspur1986]

THE single biggest flop in our history! And we’ve had a few!

 

[KirstyG]

It’s honestly embarrassing what we wasted our money on. Remember when Bent was our record signing. Fast forward Davisson Sanchez and N’Dombele. Absolute jokes. Some of the best players in last few years have come from here, Bale, Modric and Kane. To a less extent players like Walker have been super successful. Why or why can’t we pull it altogether at once?

N’Dombele said at the beginning “you ain’t seen nothing yet”. Yeah lad. We still ain’t. Waster.

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

Talksport rated N'Dombele as a very good player , good reason not to bother with Talksport.

Tottenham 'agree' club-record £65m deal to sign Tanguy Ndombele from Lyon

Tottenham are set to sign Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele after agreeing a club-record £65million deal with Lyon. It is understood the Frenchman will undergo a medical and sign a five-year contract…

talksport.com

 

[tcyrus]

just playing devil advocate,
would anyone say that, the two we have playing midfield are better players than him ?
for me, him keeping the ball in midfield is exactly what we need at the moment

 

[TOLBINY]

just playing devil advocate,
would anyone say that, the two we have playing midfield are better players than him ?
for me, him keeping the ball in midfield is exactly what we need at the moment

If we were looking to get the best out of our investment then I would sit down with the bloke and ask him exactly what role he wants in the team and look for a way to give it to him with the quid pro quo that he has to produce in that role consistently. From what I have seen of him I think it is either a deep central role or a high central role (like a No 10 in and around Kane). I don' think it is a role where he is expected to do a lot of running, tracking and pressing because I don't think he has that in him consistently.
Shame, because he is seriously talented.

 

[dontcallme]

just playing devil advocate,
would anyone say that, the two we have playing midfield are better players than him ?
for me, him keeping the ball in midfield is exactly what we need at the moment

Lol, no. He’s been useless.

 

[dontcallme]

If we were looking to get the best out of our investment then I would sit down with the bloke and ask him exactly what role he wants in the team and look for a way to give it to him with the quid pro quo that he has to produce in that role consistently. From what I have seen of him I think it is either a deep central role or a high central role (like a No 10 in and around Kane). I don' think it is a role where he is expected to do a lot of running, tracking and pressing because I don't think he has that in him consistently.
Shame, because he is seriously talented.

You can’t be serious. You want us to give him the role he wants on the condition that he performs consistently?

 

[thecook]

This season he's averaged 31.5 minutes per game that he has appeared in.

He's worth zero to us with that kind of return so we might as well get rid now., especally as next year we should hope to have a fit Bentancur and Bissouma (touch wood), both of whom most of us would start ahead of him. £200k a week is just ludicrous for someone to be a bench option.

 

[TOLBINY]

You can’t be serious. You want us to give him the role he wants on the condition that he performs consistently?

No, that is not what I "want" which is why I started my post with the word 'If' emboldened. What I want is for someone to buy him from us for 54M (or thereabouts). What I proffered was a way we might be able to get the best out of him - it is not unheard of for a team to give a special talent a special role and if you do that you need the player to buy into it.

We are not a club who can throw away tens of millions on players. The 54M transfer fee + whatever we could negotiate in terms of salary compensation to terminate early - which you have to think would be around 50% of his salary - so another 10M over the two years left on his deal, as opposed to perhaps trying to find a role that suits him best so that he is both contributing to the team and improving his sales value. I don't think there are many on SC who doubt he has ability.

Terminating his deal will impact our balance sheet - it then remains for the board to decide if they want to ignore that or not when it comes to the transfer budget. If it is going to make no difference, then yes, terminate.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

If we were looking to get the best out of our investment then I would sit down with the bloke and ask him exactly what role he wants in the team and look for a way to give it to him with the quid pro quo that he has to produce in that role consistently. From what I have seen of him I think it is either a deep central role or a high central role (like a No 10 in and around Kane). I don' think it is a role where he is expected to do a lot of running, tracking and pressing because I don't think he has that in him consistently.
Shame, because he is seriously talented.

A role with no running, tracking or pressing!! - cutting the half time oranges sounds perfect for him

 

[dontcallme]

No, that is not what I "want" which is why I started my post with the word 'If' emboldened. What I want is for someone to buy him from us for 54M (or thereabouts). What I proffered was a way we might be able to get the best out of him - it is not unheard of for a team to give a special talent a special role and if you do that you need the player to buy into it.

We are not a club who can throw away tens of millions on players. The 54M transfer fee + whatever we could negotiate in terms of salary compensation to terminate early - which you have to think would be around 50% of his salary - so another 10M over the two years left on his deal, as opposed to perhaps trying to find a role that suits him best so that he is both contributing to the team and improving his sales value. I don't think there are many on SC who doubt he has ability.

Terminating his deal will impact our balance sheet - it then remains for the board to decide if they want to ignore that or not when it comes to the transfer budget. If it is going to make no difference, then yes, terminate.

A special talent? He’s a consistent failure.

You don’t give a free role to someone like him. We’ve made a huge mistake buying him.

Admitting the mistake getting rid is infinitely better than continuing the mistake.

 

[yellowbean]

Not that i believe we will do this with Ndombele but how does it work when a contract is terminated? Does the club pay up the total remainder of the contract or a % to allow the player to negotiate a new deal as a free agent?