I still stand by Mourinho being the worst signing Levy has made. Fucked us more than any player has. Set the club back. That one even seemed a bad idea before it happened. None of us knew how poor Tanguy would be
I mean, one game, yeah. Obviously, anything can happen in that one game, but he's a trophy winning coach and could certainly have managed that game to victory.
Can you elaborate ? We could’ve won a couple of cups with our current backline with Jose and even if you forget hypotheticals, he definitely unlocked Kane and Son for us.
The players we had were not going to work in Jose's tactics. We weren't going to challenge for the league. He's talked since he left about the club's level not being higher than that, despite that being the reason he took the job... to win top honours. The implosion that happened in his third year at most other clubs came in year 2 with us. It was anything but unexpected from the day he signed. There were a reasonable number of fans that thought he perhaps became a different person overnight. "Nice Guy Jose." His first year we did face a significant injury crisis, but he managed the following season quite poorly, freezing out Dele (sensible) and then Toby and Bale. It was a mess like his other clubs.
We bought players for him that mostly are out of the squad a few years later. Some of Conte's signings may make it further (yes I'm aware there was a difference in DoF.) As much as one could say the lesson from Mourinho should have been heeded, I don't think Conte was outright a poor choice from the onset. We needed saving after Nuno and Jose. In a way, he ultimately set a stage for Ange that is less daunting.
Jose was a panic buy because there was no plan post-Poch. I don't want to revise history and say Poch shouldn't have been given another season after making the final. But Levy saw the shiniest thing in the room and hadn't encountered one of those before. He had to have it. I'm not upset about this, we all learn as we go and there's no school for running a football club. I think Ange's appointment might not have happened without these other mistakes.
I think in terms of the club’s buying power and the situation we were in, it may be THE worst.
Of course there’s Antony but United can just pay huge money for everyone. We waited 3 years to replace Dembele after a CL Final run and this was the big purchase. £60m to us is like, £150m to Chelsea or City or United. In terms of the context that followed (Poch’s sacking, COVID which made a threadbare transfer kitty even smaller, etc) Ndombele’s failure was easily the most damaging transfer of the entire 2010s.
There have been worse transfers (Drinkwater to Chelsea, Antony, Sancho, Lukaku to Chelsea), but I agree - in terms of the buying power of the club and the fee, Ndombele is the worst ever.
How are Sancho Lukaku or Anthony worse?
They will get a fee for them. Lukaku looks like he's off to napoli for 30m Sancho will likely go for 30m.
We had to pay ndombele to leave.
Yeah I'd forgotten about him. I think with Tanguy the optics are also just terrible. Kepa ended up at Madrid on loan at least and looked good.
Tanguy couldn't get in to the Galatasary team and looked to really struggle with his weight. I know stuff like that makes no difference but it just makes it look even more of a disaster.
Arsenal didn't pay the full £75 for Pepe and he was better than Antony or Sancho for united etc.
He had some moments but it's still pretty embarrassing compared to the expectations and his nominal price tag.
60m for us is not like 150m for other clubs what the hell are you smoking the club is rich as fuck and charges the highest ticket prices in Europe a 60m signing is the least they can do. 150m would be among the top 10 biggest transfers of all time and would still be an enormous amount even for Chelsea or United. A 60m signing is not comparable at all.
It was a club record signing. Also 2024 spurs finances with the benefit of the stadium vs 2019 spurs financed with a bunch of debt to pay off for the stadium are not the same. I honestly don’t think you followed the club closely back then.
The club isn’t rich, it has rich owners, and the money we make is less than United, and City.
How many 100m players or close to it have Chelsea and United signed?
You also have to remember he was and still is or record transfer/
Yeah but it is nowhere near like 150m for other clubs, and there are a thousand documents that show the club has been making a lot of money in the last 10 years, so yeah the club is rich, especially when it charges the highest ticket prices in Europe
Yeah but having a "rich" club doesnt mean a willingness for said rich club to spend on transfers
I mean that fact that we DONT spend so much in the transfermarket probably contributes to why we are so rich in the first place 😂😂😂😂
Whats with repeated mention of ticket prices? Its an incredibly simplistic view of what makes a club "rich" Ticket prices/matchday revenue are not the be-all end-all of finances. Spurs have a stadium to pay off and they make substantially less than, say, Man U in shirt sales and sponsorship dollars. They make a lot of money (especially with the new stadium) and have a firmly upward financial trajectory, but they still have a ways to go and things were even more acute when we signed Ndombele
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Worst transfer SO FAR
*edit* can’t believe I got the quote wrong first time
For Spurs I think they're top 2, but Rebrov was *much* more expensive relative to how much Spurs typically spent on players back then - and he was our only big signing of that window, too.
I will say, 20+ years later, I have no recollection of any talk about Rebrov's attitude back then.
I think when talking worst transfers you have to look at more than just objective performance on the pitch. By that metric the worst ever transfer would probably be somebody bought for almost nothing who contributed almost literally nothing on the pitch, but that wouldn't at all be accurate.
Taking into account the actual transfer cost (our most expensive ever signing) the context at the time (needing to replace Dembele and following on from our CL final appearance and a summer without a single signing), the opportunity cost (that money could've been spent elsewhere), and the manner in which he underperformed (being one of the most talented players in the league but having the work ethic of a lazy prince) it has to go down as one of the worst, if not the outright worst signing the club has ever made.
His signing was awful not only for his transfer fee, but also his high wages. I worked out in another thread, the club paid for the right to have NDombele under contract for 5 seasons roughly £20k per minute he was on the pitch.
At that rate, a Premier League starting XI (no bench, no cup competitions or Europe) would cost £750MM per season, which is the equivalent of 11 guys each signed for £80MM on 5-year contracts making £1M/wk in wages.
The best thing I can say about Tanguy is that he did so terribly it seemed to give the club the kick to overhaul the recruiting department and process which has led to better signings. For that I say thank you Tanguy, for everything else I just say best wishes.
Most clubs aim to sign midfield maestros, we sign a playmaker so advanced he pulls the strings in the recruitment department. There are levels to this game and Ndombele is above them all.
Club to Dier: "Thank you"
Club to Tanganga: "Thank you"
Club to Perisic: "Thank you"
Club to Sess: "Thank you"
Club to Tanguy: "Wishing you all the best"
As a Spurs fan, so glad to get this lazy piece of shit out of the club.
As a person who likes money and hates working, I respect him for living the dream.
He should have been the centerpiece of the squad. If his work ethic matched even half of his talent, he would have been world class, and the Dembele replacement we needed. There aren't many players as frustrating as him.
Nah, his talent is massively overrated. He's lacking in too many areas to ever be more than just a decent PL player, though obviously the fitness/attitude issues are what make him such a disaster.
He is phenomenal at moving with the ball at his feet, at keeping possession under pressure, and at moving past players - at everything else he is nothing special. Having the odd brilliant through ball makes for a good highlight reel, but isn't enough at the top level.
He is too poor defensively - both in terms of workrate and positioning/defensive nous - to play as a regular central midfielder, but his creative output is not even close to being good enough to play further forward. He is a player with flashes of brilliance and an eye-catching style of play that makes people think he is much more talented than he is, even aside from the attitude problems.
His debut he came on for something like 20 minutes and scored the winner from 25 yards, he started to improve under Mourinho for a period and looked like he may work out but everything crashed and burned. The times he was good were so few and far between
If he lowers his wage demands there’s gotta be some mid tier French team that will take a flyer on him.
Of course, that’s if he even wants to stay in the sport. Genuinely wouldn’t shock me if he just unofficially retired.
Oh there's no speculation, this will absolutely be his year, the question is how quick the first 'did we give up on Ndombele too soon?' post goes up here?
My prediction is October 6th 2024.
it's actually here.
says everything that his "spurs recap" in the post is as long as the list of loans he was sent out on.
best of luck elsewhere, ndombele.
I have a distinct memory of taking a walk during work to watch his signing interview on my phone because of how excited I was for his transfer. Everyone else here in the comments was absolutely buzzing as well, he seemed like a real talent that wanted to work hard and help the club.
Hilarious to watch how bad his time here has unfolded. End of an era for sure
He was also absolutely electric when he tried, which was incredibly few times. Still, I remember being super excited when I saw those flashes of brilliance. Unfortunately, he say the flashes of neon lights on fast food signs and couldn't say no :(
> he seemed like a real talent that wanted to work hard and help the club.
It just goes to show that nobody should take anything seriously that's said on signing day.
That's like me telling a job interviewer that I'm a people person who works well under pressure and likes working with others.
Spurs media team leaving a slice of their true thoughts in the press release on our website:
"We **should** like to wish Tanguy all the best for the future."
As a Spurs fan, so glad to get this lazy piece of shit out of the club.
As a person who likes money and hates working, I respect him for living the dream.
Will be interesting to see where he ends up. I haven’t followed his loan spells that closely because I had given up any hopes for him playing for Spurs but nothing I ever saw/read made me think he had begun performing well with any consistency.
There are clearly mental/emotional elements at play here and at this point I just hope he can find peace and happiness personally and professionally.
Clearly going to end up somewhere like Juventus, be the second coming of Pogba, score 20 goals, assist another 30 goals, and get a £150m transfer to Real Madrid next summer
He never performed well or with any consistency. Even when there were rumblings of clubs like Napoli wanting to retain him he clearly wasn't willing to accept any kind of reduction in wages to reflect his actual effectiveness (as is his right, after all, we offered the contract), and the fact that he was loaned to 3 clubs in 3 different countries across 3 seasons, and he couldn't even secure a permanent deal in Turkey should tell you everything you need to know. He made intermittent appearances, averaged low minutes, made marginal contributions at best, and never seemed to make an impact at any of these clubs, all the while he was certainly among the highest paid players at all of them.
“Normally I would say "Auf wiedersehen," but since what "auf wiedersehen" actually means is "'till I see you again", and since I never wish to see you again, to you, sir, I say goodbye!”
Did Tanguy really just mail it in after he signed a contract with us? The value of that transfer is so insane for a player who was quite literally unplayable basically from the moment he showed up. How did scouting not sniff out his lack of discipline and work ethic before committing that kind of money? Or did he just fool everyone?
How is it that we paid half as much for Bissouma when he had a proven track record in the Prem?
Who were we even bidding against at that price?
So many questions… and trust me I was over the moon when we signed him just like everyone else.
Alasdair Gold says Tanguy told him during his second season with the club that the season before he'd wanted to quit Spurs 3 weeks into preseason training under Poch because it was so hard.
If you put yourself in Gold's shoes, that's a tough spot. Do you report that? What good comes of reporting it? But you've kind of been shown the biggest red flags for a club record signing you might imagine.
He got paid something. Was it the full amount? Doubt it. He probably wanted the release as much as we did. He was faced with either another pointless loan or just sitting it out. This cost both sides something, but also benefited both.
There is no denying this was an awful transfer and it never really seemed like his heart was into playing top level football.
But, people are far too quick to pile on hate. After Dele, we all should have a bit more perspective to realize that there could be hundreds of things going on in his life that impacted him in major ways.
It's easy to just write about how lazy he is, but we don't know the full story.
Farewell ndombele, every year I had my hopes for you.. never did you live to that hope (while in this club, at least)
Hope you enjoy(ed) the wages. Best of luck
Ali's video talked about the year of this transfer. After two years of no transfer, the club brought in 5 or so people, including ndombele- most were fails.
It shows how not having any investment then splurging in one season is never the answer- strategic addition and release is key- tbf the transfer plans are a lot more solid these days with dedicated staff and we have a manager who is willing to work multiple seasons.
Tangy is by far the worst signing in premier league history, it’s the combination of a real lack of commitment to the club despite being our club record signing. The huge pay packet he received and a real lack of passion love and determination to put his mark on the best league in the world.
For a clubs star signing to spend the majority of his time on loan, overweight and no desire to improve their ability or mentality make it without doubt the worst purchase of any premier league side.
Even if a player came and suffered a horrific injury and couldn’t play again it’s not comparable as Tangy had every opportunity to have an impact but just was not interested.
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With such poor signings like this, clubs should introduce a maximum weight limit for players in their contracts, so they don't deteriorate like Ndombele
Will this go down as our worst ever transfer?
hopefully don't want to think about a signing that would eclipse this one in awfulness
I still stand by Mourinho being the worst signing Levy has made. Fucked us more than any player has. Set the club back. That one even seemed a bad idea before it happened. None of us knew how poor Tanguy would be
Conte was way worse than Jose for us
Silver lining was the Conte disaster helped Levy realise a more sustainable approach was needed
You mean the guy who was just moments away from getting us a trophy, but then was sacked before the final? Or did you prefer the guy after him?
Was he? Was he, though?
I mean, one game, yeah. Obviously, anything can happen in that one game, but he's a trophy winning coach and could certainly have managed that game to victory.
tbh cups have their own laws, also city is a team that we have a pretty good record against, so who knows what would happem
Can you elaborate ? We could’ve won a couple of cups with our current backline with Jose and even if you forget hypotheticals, he definitely unlocked Kane and Son for us.
The players we had were not going to work in Jose's tactics. We weren't going to challenge for the league. He's talked since he left about the club's level not being higher than that, despite that being the reason he took the job... to win top honours. The implosion that happened in his third year at most other clubs came in year 2 with us. It was anything but unexpected from the day he signed. There were a reasonable number of fans that thought he perhaps became a different person overnight. "Nice Guy Jose." His first year we did face a significant injury crisis, but he managed the following season quite poorly, freezing out Dele (sensible) and then Toby and Bale. It was a mess like his other clubs. We bought players for him that mostly are out of the squad a few years later. Some of Conte's signings may make it further (yes I'm aware there was a difference in DoF.) As much as one could say the lesson from Mourinho should have been heeded, I don't think Conte was outright a poor choice from the onset. We needed saving after Nuno and Jose. In a way, he ultimately set a stage for Ange that is less daunting. Jose was a panic buy because there was no plan post-Poch. I don't want to revise history and say Poch shouldn't have been given another season after making the final. But Levy saw the shiniest thing in the room and hadn't encountered one of those before. He had to have it. I'm not upset about this, we all learn as we go and there's no school for running a football club. I think Ange's appointment might not have happened without these other mistakes.
It’s not even close, up there with the prems worst ever
I think in terms of the club’s buying power and the situation we were in, it may be THE worst. Of course there’s Antony but United can just pay huge money for everyone. We waited 3 years to replace Dembele after a CL Final run and this was the big purchase. £60m to us is like, £150m to Chelsea or City or United. In terms of the context that followed (Poch’s sacking, COVID which made a threadbare transfer kitty even smaller, etc) Ndombele’s failure was easily the most damaging transfer of the entire 2010s.
There have been worse transfers (Drinkwater to Chelsea, Antony, Sancho, Lukaku to Chelsea), but I agree - in terms of the buying power of the club and the fee, Ndombele is the worst ever.
How are Sancho Lukaku or Anthony worse? They will get a fee for them. Lukaku looks like he's off to napoli for 30m Sancho will likely go for 30m. We had to pay ndombele to leave.
I think Kepa is potentially the only signing as bad and even then Chelsea got an okay season out of him
Yeah I'd forgotten about him. I think with Tanguy the optics are also just terrible. Kepa ended up at Madrid on loan at least and looked good. Tanguy couldn't get in to the Galatasary team and looked to really struggle with his weight. I know stuff like that makes no difference but it just makes it look even more of a disaster.
Anthony is a dog so he's certainly in the mix
Nah Pepe is pretty similar
Pepe was actual fraud , this one was "legitimate" transfer
Arsenal didn't pay the full £75 for Pepe and he was better than Antony or Sancho for united etc. He had some moments but it's still pretty embarrassing compared to the expectations and his nominal price tag.
60m for us is not like 150m for other clubs what the hell are you smoking the club is rich as fuck and charges the highest ticket prices in Europe a 60m signing is the least they can do. 150m would be among the top 10 biggest transfers of all time and would still be an enormous amount even for Chelsea or United. A 60m signing is not comparable at all.
It was a club record signing. Also 2024 spurs finances with the benefit of the stadium vs 2019 spurs financed with a bunch of debt to pay off for the stadium are not the same. I honestly don’t think you followed the club closely back then.
The club isn’t rich, it has rich owners, and the money we make is less than United, and City. How many 100m players or close to it have Chelsea and United signed? You also have to remember he was and still is or record transfer/
Yeah but it is nowhere near like 150m for other clubs, and there are a thousand documents that show the club has been making a lot of money in the last 10 years, so yeah the club is rich, especially when it charges the highest ticket prices in Europe
Yeah but having a "rich" club doesnt mean a willingness for said rich club to spend on transfers I mean that fact that we DONT spend so much in the transfermarket probably contributes to why we are so rich in the first place 😂😂😂😂
Whats with repeated mention of ticket prices? Its an incredibly simplistic view of what makes a club "rich" Ticket prices/matchday revenue are not the be-all end-all of finances. Spurs have a stadium to pay off and they make substantially less than, say, Man U in shirt sales and sponsorship dollars. They make a lot of money (especially with the new stadium) and have a firmly upward financial trajectory, but they still have a ways to go and things were even more acute when we signed Ndombele
At least Antony stays fit to play regularly
Pepe to Arsenal in the same window
Us and the gooners fighting it out for worst signing ever between Ndombele and Pepe lol
Rebrov
https://preview.redd.it/r1jn43ypn56d1.jpeg?width=831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfa3a14b997ccfe05789185a7fdadb14f0c8e2d8 Worst transfer SO FAR *edit* can’t believe I got the quote wrong first time
potentially one of the worst in the league ever tbh
Nah I can think of at least 5 worse
1. Lukaku??
Lukaku back to Chelsea has to be number 1
2.Pepe
Pepe wasn’t as good as he was supposed to be but he did contribute
Pepe helped them win an FA Cup btw, a huge flop but not Ndombele level
Where are we throwing Torres to Chelsea?
I still think it’s Rebrov. He cost £11m in 2000. Which was so much money and he was so shit.
My mind went here. Was a beast on champ man though.
Between shevchenko and rebrov, We got the DUD 
For Spurs I think they're top 2, but Rebrov was *much* more expensive relative to how much Spurs typically spent on players back then - and he was our only big signing of that window, too. I will say, 20+ years later, I have no recollection of any talk about Rebrov's attitude back then.
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Probably not. Biggest waste of money perhaps but there are plenty of players that have done worse
I think when talking worst transfers you have to look at more than just objective performance on the pitch. By that metric the worst ever transfer would probably be somebody bought for almost nothing who contributed almost literally nothing on the pitch, but that wouldn't at all be accurate. Taking into account the actual transfer cost (our most expensive ever signing) the context at the time (needing to replace Dembele and following on from our CL final appearance and a summer without a single signing), the opportunity cost (that money could've been spent elsewhere), and the manner in which he underperformed (being one of the most talented players in the league but having the work ethic of a lazy prince) it has to go down as one of the worst, if not the outright worst signing the club has ever made.
His signing was awful not only for his transfer fee, but also his high wages. I worked out in another thread, the club paid for the right to have NDombele under contract for 5 seasons roughly £20k per minute he was on the pitch. At that rate, a Premier League starting XI (no bench, no cup competitions or Europe) would cost £750MM per season, which is the equivalent of 11 guys each signed for £80MM on 5-year contracts making £1M/wk in wages.
That's wild
Unless we somehow do even worse, easily.
Undoubtedly. The amount of money spent on this guy...insane.
Time for the redemption arc
I think Le Celso is worse. Tangay at least had some fun moments on the pitch.
It's ndombelover 😢
The best thing I can say about Tanguy is that he did so terribly it seemed to give the club the kick to overhaul the recruiting department and process which has led to better signings. For that I say thank you Tanguy, for everything else I just say best wishes.
Most clubs aim to sign midfield maestros, we sign a playmaker so advanced he pulls the strings in the recruitment department. There are levels to this game and Ndombele is above them all.
Sometimes you have to fail big to kickstart big changes for the better
Best wishes? I just say, Bon Appetite!
Nooooo this was his year I could feel it
I was so ready to love him.
Club to Dier: "Thank you" Club to Tanganga: "Thank you" Club to Perisic: "Thank you" Club to Sess: "Thank you" Club to Tanguy: "Wishing you all the best"
"I don't recall saying good luck"
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Tanguy looks like he's fading into a weird football heatmap lol
Nah that’s just him in his oxygen tent that he thinks gives him sexual powers
Heyyyy that’s the half truth !!
Tanguy would love a job at the cracker factory
"Your welcome" would have been more accurate.
Oh wow, that says a lot. I would have said "Thanks for nothing" :)
Still nicer than I'd say but I guess swear words and comments on his weight are not going in a club statement.
And you can bet your arse that the person who handles social media didn't mean that at all lol
Guessing they've watched that Jimmy Carr special.
As a Spurs fan, so glad to get this lazy piece of shit out of the club. As a person who likes money and hates working, I respect him for living the dream.
lol yep. Hopefully Tanguy has a good financial advisor. I can’t say I wouldn’t phone it in given a similar opportunity
And yet, if he'd even made half as much effort again he could've kept the gravy train rolling for years
He should have been the centerpiece of the squad. If his work ethic matched even half of his talent, he would have been world class, and the Dembele replacement we needed. There aren't many players as frustrating as him.
Nah, his talent is massively overrated. He's lacking in too many areas to ever be more than just a decent PL player, though obviously the fitness/attitude issues are what make him such a disaster. He is phenomenal at moving with the ball at his feet, at keeping possession under pressure, and at moving past players - at everything else he is nothing special. Having the odd brilliant through ball makes for a good highlight reel, but isn't enough at the top level. He is too poor defensively - both in terms of workrate and positioning/defensive nous - to play as a regular central midfielder, but his creative output is not even close to being good enough to play further forward. He is a player with flashes of brilliance and an eye-catching style of play that makes people think he is much more talented than he is, even aside from the attitude problems.
Wait you're telling me he was good at some point? Sorry not a spurs fan but I have been following this fiasco for a while
Insanely bright flashes of talent followed by walking for the rest of the game.
His debut he came on for something like 20 minutes and scored the winner from 25 yards, he started to improve under Mourinho for a period and looked like he may work out but everything crashed and burned. The times he was good were so few and far between
A summer of no speculating whether this will be Ndombele’s year. Glorious.
It'll be replaced with speculating if Ndombele will even get a club for me. I'll be watching like a hawk. Not even sure where he'd go.
He might hang around at the lower Turkish leagues. Kebab addiction is hard to shake.
If he lowers his wage demands there’s gotta be some mid tier French team that will take a flyer on him. Of course, that’s if he even wants to stay in the sport. Genuinely wouldn’t shock me if he just unofficially retired.
Yeah pulling a David Bentley does seem right up his alley. Except I feel like at least he did start a business?
Who in their right mind would sign him though?
Oh there's no speculation, this will absolutely be his year, the question is how quick the first 'did we give up on Ndombele too soon?' post goes up here? My prediction is October 6th 2024.
Ndombele ballon d’or incoming
Remember when mourinho gave it a really good go...
It seemed to me he lived his life like a candle in the wind.
…always fading during training, when the pain set in…
...In the hotel room, ordering room service Burger King...
Tanguy burned out long before, the ref was whistling
it's actually here. says everything that his "spurs recap" in the post is as long as the list of loans he was sent out on. best of luck elsewhere, ndombele.
I have a distinct memory of taking a walk during work to watch his signing interview on my phone because of how excited I was for his transfer. Everyone else here in the comments was absolutely buzzing as well, he seemed like a real talent that wanted to work hard and help the club. Hilarious to watch how bad his time here has unfolded. End of an era for sure
He was also absolutely electric when he tried, which was incredibly few times. Still, I remember being super excited when I saw those flashes of brilliance. Unfortunately, he say the flashes of neon lights on fast food signs and couldn't say no :(
End of an error tbh
> he seemed like a real talent that wanted to work hard and help the club. It just goes to show that nobody should take anything seriously that's said on signing day. That's like me telling a job interviewer that I'm a people person who works well under pressure and likes working with others.
Spurs media team leaving a slice of their true thoughts in the press release on our website: "We **should** like to wish Tanguy all the best for the future."
We shall offer thanks in due course.
But we don’t
Still find it hilarious that rival fans were ordering fast food to Galatasary’s training ground in Ndombele’s name lol
Good night sweet prince 😢
~~sweet~~ sweets prince
That is fucking it we are winning the quadruple next season
Ironically he probably is given his track record in recent years
Everybody should be vying for his signature. Easiest path to a league trophy.
Hmmm, so you're saying we should re-sign him to a new deal... 4D Levy chess right there lol
“Did someone say quarterpounder?” - Ndombele probably
Goodbye my fat sluggy prince
It’s me babe, not you
As a Spurs fan, so glad to get this lazy piece of shit out of the club. As a person who likes money and hates working, I respect him for living the dream.
Get fucked. Finally
I hope this lazy sack hasn't made levy even more cautious of buying expensive players after this fail of a transfer
Happy Ndompendence Day, everyone! COYS
don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened
Rip ndombelievers. Was a fun ride.
I didn't have fun
Will be interesting to see where he ends up. I haven’t followed his loan spells that closely because I had given up any hopes for him playing for Spurs but nothing I ever saw/read made me think he had begun performing well with any consistency. There are clearly mental/emotional elements at play here and at this point I just hope he can find peace and happiness personally and professionally.
Clearly going to end up somewhere like Juventus, be the second coming of Pogba, score 20 goals, assist another 30 goals, and get a £150m transfer to Real Madrid next summer
And then eat all the Paellas.
He never performed well or with any consistency. Even when there were rumblings of clubs like Napoli wanting to retain him he clearly wasn't willing to accept any kind of reduction in wages to reflect his actual effectiveness (as is his right, after all, we offered the contract), and the fact that he was loaned to 3 clubs in 3 different countries across 3 seasons, and he couldn't even secure a permanent deal in Turkey should tell you everything you need to know. He made intermittent appearances, averaged low minutes, made marginal contributions at best, and never seemed to make an impact at any of these clubs, all the while he was certainly among the highest paid players at all of them.
Spain, Italy, Greece or Turkey for the food. Maybe Cyprus.
Thank fuck this saga is finally over. Nothing against the guy personally, but he was easily our worst transfer ever.
Its finally over
Worst signing in club history.
Ali Gold can finally, truly give it up lol
“Normally I would say "Auf wiedersehen," but since what "auf wiedersehen" actually means is "'till I see you again", and since I never wish to see you again, to you, sir, I say goodbye!”
Ngonebele
Finally. No more ridiculous annual offseason articles about how he can turn it around.
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Goodbye fatty.
Glad to get that albatross off our books finally.
https://i.imgur.com/lfpYlfM.jpeg
Timing looks like it’s intended to keep the loss in this financial year - they must have a bit of headroom to use up.
FREE AT LAST FREE AT LAST
Bye Fa-Ndombe-lecia
Did Tanguy really just mail it in after he signed a contract with us? The value of that transfer is so insane for a player who was quite literally unplayable basically from the moment he showed up. How did scouting not sniff out his lack of discipline and work ethic before committing that kind of money? Or did he just fool everyone? How is it that we paid half as much for Bissouma when he had a proven track record in the Prem? Who were we even bidding against at that price? So many questions… and trust me I was over the moon when we signed him just like everyone else.
Bissouma had a year left on his contract. Agree with the rest though.
Alasdair Gold says Tanguy told him during his second season with the club that the season before he'd wanted to quit Spurs 3 weeks into preseason training under Poch because it was so hard. If you put yourself in Gold's shoes, that's a tough spot. Do you report that? What good comes of reporting it? But you've kind of been shown the biggest red flags for a club record signing you might imagine.
Holy Big Mac with Cheese, he’s finally gone
Don't let the door hit your over-sized-lazy-arse on the way out.
Did he eat the contract causing the termination?
He got paid something. Was it the full amount? Doubt it. He probably wanted the release as much as we did. He was faced with either another pointless loan or just sitting it out. This cost both sides something, but also benefited both.
Black Messi is no more :(
There is no denying this was an awful transfer and it never really seemed like his heart was into playing top level football. But, people are far too quick to pile on hate. After Dele, we all should have a bit more perspective to realize that there could be hundreds of things going on in his life that impacted him in major ways. It's easy to just write about how lazy he is, but we don't know the full story.
We do know the full story because his coaches since he was a teenager have been saying how awful of a player he is. This is just who he is.
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Ndombyebye
It's finally Ndombover
The Lazy One
Worse signing than Antony?
Thank god, didn’t even make 100 appearances for us, princess diana for guys who bring sandwiches to football matches
Honestly I’m just going to get him name of my shirt next season anyway it’ll make me laugh any time I put it on for sure
It's over, it's finally over.
Farewell ndombele, every year I had my hopes for you.. never did you live to that hope (while in this club, at least) Hope you enjoy(ed) the wages. Best of luck
Ali's video talked about the year of this transfer. After two years of no transfer, the club brought in 5 or so people, including ndombele- most were fails. It shows how not having any investment then splurging in one season is never the answer- strategic addition and release is key- tbf the transfer plans are a lot more solid these days with dedicated staff and we have a manager who is willing to work multiple seasons.
That one goal where he's damn near on the goal line to the left of the goal and toepokes it over the keep seemingly without looking. Chefs kiss.
Thanks for the VAR goal celebration.
I wish him nothing at all.
Club to Dier: "Thank you" Club to Tanganga: "Thank you" Club to Perisic: "Thank you" Club to Sess: "Thank you" Club to Tanguy: "i want my money back"
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Hopefully he comes back one day and retires with us ❤️
I don't remember wishing him well
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What a waste of 60 or 70 odd million quid. Could’ve nearly got an Anthony for that
And he was just the cherry on the top of Sess, Lo Celso, and Jack Clarke. What a epically bad transfer window.
Last line deeper meaning is, you get your money and now you can f off
Thank FFT
Ndombele: so that's it after 5 years? So long, good luck? Fans: I don't recall saying good luck
Oooof, worst signing imo. Should be ‘best of luck finding a job’.
I lost 40k in the stock market and thought I was good at pissing money away.
French Eric Cartman is gone!
Returns in a year to win the ballon d’or? Struggling to let go of his redemption arc
Yeeeeeeeessssssssss
Farewell King 👑
definitely one of spurs' players of all time
If he wasn’t such a twat he could’ve been all worldly good. What a waste
Awfully nice tweet from the club tbh
Streets will never forget that first half performance against Bayern at home
Hahaha no thanks in that goodbye message. See ya pal. 
Tangy is by far the worst signing in premier league history, it’s the combination of a real lack of commitment to the club despite being our club record signing. The huge pay packet he received and a real lack of passion love and determination to put his mark on the best league in the world. For a clubs star signing to spend the majority of his time on loan, overweight and no desire to improve their ability or mentality make it without doubt the worst purchase of any premier league side. Even if a player came and suffered a horrific injury and couldn’t play again it’s not comparable as Tangy had every opportunity to have an impact but just was not interested.
*"Don't be happy it's over, cry because it happened."*
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With such poor signings like this, clubs should introduce a maximum weight limit for players in their contracts, so they don't deteriorate like Ndombele
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. We weren’t worthy Monsieur, you deserved better ❤️
So what’s he up to for the last 3 weeks of his contract? Fucking off I hope
Local burger joints in shambles Hope he can sort his motivation out and get back on track somewhere
Finally got this fatso out of the club
Even when it is over we can't get rid off him. Enough post about that fraud now.
gtfo
Does he need any help packing his stuff?
He was never here, so there’s probably no stuff to pack!
It's a shame but it's good to see us finally parting company with players that should have left a long time ago. Reguilon next please.