Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

[Spurs_Bear]

let's be honest my man

the abuse Tanguy received here was absolutely disgusting.
I don't think I've seen another player recieve the same treatment.

One of the funniest things I've read on this thread.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Trying reading about our FBs. Any of them. At any given point in time.

Or Winks, or Soldado, or Crouch, or even Robbie fucking Keane when his stock started to drop.

 

[double0]

The immediate aim now for Ndombele Mourinho is to play 90+ mins consistently.




What a player he is .

 

[walton]

Was looking back through some posts this summer, including my own. The amount of shite thrown at this guy is unbelievable now, yet pretty deserved at the time. I remember doubling down on his ability and work ethic, especially after he returned to training. The amount of people on here calling him LAZY - we’re talking about a nobody of a prospect who made it from Ligue 2 to bossing Barca and City in the CL in two seasons - was absurd. I will also admit worrying that fitness or personality clashes with Jose were holding him back from ever reaching that potential. He was giving lazy performances and I think a lot of people who wanted him sold wouldn’t have been wrong at the time.

But the time is now, and Tanguy has arrived. When Moussa Dembele was sold to China I thought there would be dozens of years before I ever saw a Spurs player with the ball control he has. N’Dombele may already be there in less than 18 months as a Spurs player.

Watch this compilation and I bet you’ll start laughing when you see what he did to Kante and Silva. He’s a genius, seriously reminds me of Ronaldinho in tight spaces in that he is completely unique with his body feints. Never seems to do the same move twice. Pogba hasn’t put in a performance like this in years.

Lovely clip - has all the ingredients of a classic player montage:

- terrible music (thought this was Pan Pipes Dreams to begin with)
- literally every tough the player makes, even when he gives the ball away

8/10 - would watch again.

 

[Cult of Ange High Priest]

Completely. As I said before it was self perpetuating. Someone would state an outright unproven statement as a hypothesis then it slowly became fact as so many people were repeating it.

A lot of that was fueled by some ITKs. They said he had a terrible attitude, had been taking the piss for months, and that getting rid of him was our only option. Not hard to see why someone who places a lot of faith in the ITKs would develop a very negative opinion of our Lord and Savior.

 

[Kiedis]

Not hard to see why someone who places a lot of faith in the ITKs would develop a very negative opinion of our Lord and Savior.

Lads that put that much faith in "ITKs" shouldn't be allowed to use the internet without parental supervision.

 

[TTID2002]

Unsure if it’s been said, but he really stood out as the Dembele replacement he was supposed to be on Sunday. Less graceful than the moose, but 100% nailing that role. Love it.

 

[ginola99]

Unsure if it’s been said, but he really stood out as the Dembele replacement he was supposed to be on Sunday. Less graceful than the moose, but 100% nailing that role. Love it.

Agreed.

Turned Kante, yes Kante, like he wasn't there. Which is funny because chelsea fans call Kante the mop as 'he mops everything up' yet Ndombele went around him like a janitor does when they got the walkman on.

 

[weststandyid]

Unsure if it’s been said, but he really stood out as the Dembele replacement he was supposed to be on Sunday. Less graceful than the moose, but 100% nailing that role. Love it.

disagree. aside from being able to move forward with the ball and often difficult to shake off, I think he's a very different and far less disciplined player (will also be way more productive).

 

[Yiddo21]

incredibly talented and his getting away from markers is brilliant. don't have stats, but don't think his ball retention is great (admittedly his passing is more progressive than dembele's, but even in less 'risky' scenarios) and needs to have a great influence on matches IMO.

He needs to add an end product. All the spins and flicks don't mean much if he loses the ball afterwards..
Some people getting a bit carried away with him IMO. Still can't seem to last 90 mins although i'd blame the manager for that personally.

I'm a big fan of his skills though. Would help if the manager allowed another midfielder to play with him who can actually pass the ball forward instead of Shitsosoko.

 

[Rosco1984]

He needs to add an end product. All the spins and flicks don't mean much if he loses the ball afterwards..
Some people getting a bit carried away with him IMO. Still can't seem to last 90 mins although i'd blame the manager for that personally.

I'm a big fan of his skills though. Would help if the manager allowed another midfielder to play with him who can actually pass the ball forward instead of Shitsosoko.

I'm pretty sure he played a perfectly weighted through ball for son to score in 5 minutes against city?

 

[Yiddo21]

I'm pretty sure he played a perfectly weighted through ball for son to score in 5 minutes against city?

Which we need to see more of. That's his only assist this season and he has 0 goals. If he's playing as an AM with 2 defensive midfielders behind him, those numbers need to go up.

God knows we'd be going mental if Dele had those numbers playing as a number 10.

 

[Rosco1984]

Which we need to see more of. That's his only assist this season and he has 0 goals. If he's playing as an AM with 2 defensive midfielders behind him, those numbers need to go up.

God knows we'd be going mental if Dele had those numbers playing as a number 10.

Hmm he's scored a winning goal in the Europa league that saved us being knocked out embarrassingly before the groupstage. He scored the equaliser against united. He set us on our way for several of the goals against Southampton and united creating the space for Kane and Son to connect. He's contributing plenty of end product. My only gripe with him was last season he clearly gave up at one point you can blame fitness and confidence all you want but 0 sprints In a half of football is an attitude thing my 60 year old dad could sprint once. But he has sorted that out he's now vital to us going forwards. and clearly making up stats to knock him is crazy.

 

[Yiddo21]

Hmm he's scored a winning goal in the Europa league that saved us being knocked out embarrassingly before the groupstage. He scored the equaliser against united. He set us on our way for several of the goals against Southampton and united creating the space for Kane and Son to connect. He's contributing plenty of end product. My only gripe with him was last season he clearly gave up at one point you can blame fitness and confidence all you want but 0 sprints In a half of football is an attitude thing my 60 year old dad could sprint once. But he has sorted that out he's now vital to us going forwards. and clearly making up stats to knock him is crazy.

Oh yeh i forgot that goal v Utd, 1 goal and 1 assist then. Still as a number 10 he needs to push those numbers upwards. People seem to be getting a bit carried away with him especially as he only plays an hour a game.

 

[cozzo]

Oh yeh i forgot that goal v Utd, 1 goal and 1 assist then. Still as a number 10 he needs to push those numbers upwards. People seem to be getting a bit carried away with him especially as he only plays an hour a game.

we are not getting carried away. We just know when we see a special player.

 

[Yiddo21]

we are not getting carried away. We just know when we see a special player.

He's got the potential to become a special player, he isn't there yet IMO and to get him to that next level, end product and not losing the ball as often is what's needed. I'm sure Jose agrees.

 

[Boeen]

Interesting note from reddit:

Ndombele unorthodox style and where I’ve seen it before.

I’ve been playing and watching ice hockey for over 13 years and when I see him play it’s like watching a coaching skills video. Watching him play I have observed, He often dips low in his turns allowing him to shift his weight and make tight turns. He explodes out of these turns with force often at about 45 degrees from where his feet are planted. In only a few powerful bursts he gets away from his opponent. He shields the ball with his body and stays low giving him leverage when on the ball. The pressuring players are often much higher than he is, which he uses to push and glide past them. His opponents being “higher” means they’re often off balance and stumble as they try to catch him. He also uses his low stance to flip his hips and open up for passes and create different angles. The draw back to this play style is it is extremely taxing physically. elite hockey players only play about 20-30 minutes and take 1 to 2 minute shifts at most. His quads most be burning after just 60 minutes of playing low and engaging in contact like that.
TLDR: Ndombele skates past everyone on the pitch

Threshair

 

[Gbspurs]

Not sure we will see much of him & Lo Celso together. It is becoming more obvious why Jose is playing Sissoko, he is covering the channels and making us hard to beat. Think we will only see it when we are chasing games.

If we can get to a point where we stop playing midweek then I think we will see it. At the moment I think this job sharing is purely based on the fact we need one of them on the pitch at all times and there are so many games.

 

[Gbspurs]

Also does anyone find it ironic that we spent years complaining that we have too many athletes and not enough "footballers" and now we have an incredible footballer and we are now complaining that he isn't athletic enough!?

 

[hellava_tough]

I'd like to see him play regularly with Lo Celso in the midfield 3, because I think he'd get more space and time.

It's unlikely that opposition teams are worried about Sissoko's attacking threat, but they would be scrambling to close down Lo Celso.

This would allow NDombele to truly run havoc in the opposition lines.