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Player Watch - Tanguy Ndombele

Frozen_Waffles

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Let's face it french players are always a bit problematic in one way or another.

Lloris, griezman, pogba, rabiot, Benzema, Dembélé, there's probably more, great players not really great professionals.

Ndombele has had problems with fitness and attitude before he seems like he can only be assed for the big games as well.

If he does screw his head on right he could be a world beater.
 

TheVoiceofReason

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Can’t understand the bollocks on this thread. What the fuck is going on?

Go through the match threads where he’s played, everyone’s raving about him. Gets an injury and suddenly he’s a fat, disappointing failure.

As if you lot know that he’s overweight. If he was overweight he wouldn’t be playing. He isn’t fat he’s just injured.
 

SugarRay

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Fabinho wasn't played for the first 5 months at liverpool for this very reason.

That's worked out ok...

He struggled, nowhere near as much as Keita has for them though. Obviously Fabinho turned it round big time.
Tanguy has more talent than both and has started much better than both
 

Johnny J

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Injuries aside, it's slightly ridiculous that our star, record signing is blowing after half an hour, let alone 60. What the fuck. I think it's reasonable to expect all uninjured professional footballers to cope with playing a full game. God forbid.
 

Flashspur

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Which is what Spurs Bear was saying.

I think his fitness will improve after he lays off the snacks between meals. Sorry lads just joking :D
 

Khilari

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Injuries aside, it's slightly ridiculous that our star, record signing is blowing after half an hour, let alone 60. What the fuck. I think it's reasonable to expect all uninjured professional footballers to cope with playing a full game. God forbid.
Not when perhaps you're used (and physiologically adjusted) to playing a game with a far slower pace. Presumably the recovery time is much shorter in the premier league between lung busting run to lung busting run, meaning Ndombele will need more matches to get fit, which he's not managing currently due to injury.
 

LeParisien

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Let's face it french players are always a bit problematic in one way or another.

Lloris, griezman, pogba, rabiot, Benzema, Dembélé, there's probably more, great players not really great professionals.

Ndombele has had problems with fitness and attitude before he seems like he can only be assed for the big games as well.

If he does screw his head on right he could be a world beater.
So problematic they won the World Cup and have a second team that would give England a good run for their money.

France has unprofessional players for a long while but you can’t say that since Deschamps took over.
 

Frozen_Waffles

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So problematic they won the World Cup and have a second team that would give England a good run for their money.

France has unprofessional players for a long while but you can’t say that since Deschamps took over.

Probably came over a little too critical, player for player, talent wise they are probably the best.

Deschamps has done a good job but on the international stage griezman is not going to do a press conferene saying how he is going to stay with France and the next year piss off to the German national side.

Serious attitude problems floating around that squad. He did well to stop them being dicks for a few months.
 

stevenqoz

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Up until now certainly a Sports car body with an Hillman imp engine under the bonnet. The bloke literally can't play 2 EPL games in a row. Probably, will improve with a proper pre-season
 

Spurs_Bear

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Injuries aside, it's slightly ridiculous that our star, record signing is blowing after half an hour, let alone 60. What the fuck. I think it's reasonable to expect all uninjured professional footballers to cope with playing a full game. God forbid.
Exactly this. Exactly this.
 

Spurs_Bear

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Which is what Spurs Bear was saying.

I think his fitness will improve after he lays off the snacks between meals. Sorry lads just joking :D
Exactly, it’s quite comical how angry people get.

Our record signing can’t last 90 minutes, that was before injury, and I think that’s a disgrace. We need more from him.
 

Spurrific

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nicdic

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Exactly, it’s quite comical how angry people get.

Our record signing can’t last 90 minutes, that was before injury, and I think that’s a disgrace. We need more from him.
It’s not a disgrace. You’re going way too over the top. As others keep pointing out. He’s had injuries, adapting to a much faster game, learning the language etc. All these things play a part, and the injuries and pace of the game will have a direct effect on how fit he is. If he hadn’t had any injuries or time out and was from the PL then yeah maybe you could say it was a disgrace, but even then it’s a tad over dramatic.
 

Misfit

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It’s not a disgrace. You’re going way too over the top. As others keep pointing out. He’s had injuries, adapting to a much faster game, learning the language etc. All these things play a part, and the injuries and pace of the game will have a direct effect on how fit he is. If he hadn’t had any injuries or time out and was from the PL then yeah maybe you could say it was a disgrace, but even then it’s a tad over dramatic.
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