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Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

emiley heskey

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Literally whatever happens with Jose or whatever there’s no way we should allow him to go this summer. If he has to suffer another year of bit part time due to him not being favored by Jose so be it. But we have to be willing to allow him to fail for one more season. Jose signed Modric and barely used him his first season he is not infallible.

Modric played in 53 matches in his first season at Real Madrid ... At that time, Madrid had alonso, khedira at central midfield role, so he was used as sub appearances in several games but yet he has played in 53 times in all competition that season.
 
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ClintEastwould

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Modric played in 53 matches in his first season at Real Madrid ... At that time, Madrid had alonso, khedira at central midfield role, so he was used as sub appearances but yet he has 53 times in all competition that season.

I didn’t know that. I loved Luka so much that I followed him as much as I could after he left but I always had the impression he was under utilized his first season. Suppose I was wrong.
 

emiley heskey

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I didn’t know that. I loved Luka so much that I followed him as much as I could after he left but I always had the impression he was under utilized his first season. Suppose I was wrong.

They actually bought Modric for Alonso's replacement. Alonso was not getting younger and they bought him in 2012 so that when they sell Alonso two seasons later, Modric can be ready and fully settled in real madrid. That exactly what happened as they sold Alonso in 2014 and Modric took alonso's position on starting 11 ...

It's not like we sold dembele, waited 1 year for his replacement and then bought ndombele and now ndombele needs one or two more year to settle.
 

wrd

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According to the injury table his injury is listed as "Other" with no return date.


Bye bye Tanguy?

Might be worth clicking the other teams and seeing if it occurred elsewhere before jumping to conclusions.
 

chrissivad

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Isn't that because the club haven't said much about it?

Team news say it's a knee issue.
But these sites won't be able to guess what that is or time scale.
 

Johno1470

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If we can get our money back we should be all for it. No doubting the ability that TND has but given the amount of focus the media have put on it already (unfairly in my opinion) I doubt he'll ever succeed under Jose. This isn't a similar situation with Pogba as that focused more around ego whereas TND clearly has fitness and motivation issues. It will be very disappointing to see him head off to LaLiga or Bundesliga and absolutely tear it up as we all know what he can do but we need to focus on our squad and he's just not cutting it currently.
 

DiVaio

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We should sell Ndombele and buy dani cabellos before Arsenal get him permanently ... I think cabellos has everything to become top premier league midfielder and he is mourinho mould player
Ndombele is much better than him. Ceballos played about 8 good senior games in his career, and you can't even write his name correctly.
 
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I didn’t know that. I loved Luka so much that I followed him as much as I could after he left but I always had the impression he was under utilized his first season. Suppose I was wrong.

As a casual observer/lurker at that time, I can only imagine it's possible you were drawn to that impression by the Gibbs guy who I think hated him and used to . Thought I think he hated everyone/everything.
e.g. https://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/in...sc-polls-compared-to-the-media-pundits.67015/
 
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I was talking about his first season at Madrid

Yeah, there was a campaign by the guy (on here or on another one I used to read) where he claimed all the fans hated him and he was the worst signing in Madrid's history etc.

Point being is that it permeates the subconscious, so people start to unintentionally inherit an impression of a player based on an opinion when it's constant.
 
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SheffieldAndy

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Yeah, there was a campaign by the guy (on here or on another one I used to read) where he claimed all the fans hated him and he was the worst signing in Madrid's history etc.

Point being is that it permeates the subconscious, so people start to unintentionally inherit an impression of a player based on an opinion when it's constant.
He was voted the worst signing of any Spanish club in his first season with Madrid in a Marca fan poll (garnering approx. 1/3 of the votes), so the guy wasn’t miles off on the fans initial opinion of Modric.
 
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He was voted the worst signing of any Spanish club in his first season with Madrid in a Marca fan poll (garnering approx. 1/3 of the votes), so the guy wasn’t miles off on the fans initial opinion of Modric.

This is what I mean - he was voted "Worst Signing" by a newspaper poll (Marca) after a couple of months of the season, so he had been given no time at all. The following season he won 'Best Midfielder'. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a Real forum with a user named elGibbmente making anti-Modric threads leading up to it :ROFLMAO:

As has been mentioned, he played a lot of games and the perception of the casual observer was tainted by the media/socialpathic-forum-users.

Tanguy doesn't compare to all of these people because he's just no Luka, he's no Son. He's a talented player with poor mental application. He nearly binned his career once before and it wouldn't surprise me if he's completely taken his foot off the gas - especially if he's on Kane money. I would get shot of this version of him, because players like Tanguy rot teams from the inside out. We should avoid having our own Ozil in that sense (e.g. getting paid the ridiculous wages and not actually earning them).

If they can whip him into shape then great, but I firmly expect he'll be playing for someone else come September.
 
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