Tanguy Ndombele’s career at Tottenham Hotspur is more or less over unless something drastic happens. Multiple reports now suggest Spurs are trying to find someone to take him off their hands, as long as they are willing to pay his wages.
That’s what makes the latest rumor so interesting. According to Jack Pitt-Brooke in The Athletic (£), PSG are the latest team interested in loaning Ndombele out until the rest of the season, a move that would reunite him with Mauricio Pochettino.
Athletic say Pochettino is ‘still an admirer’ of Ndombele, which makes sense, and suggest a move could include an option to buy him at the end of the season where PSG could buy him outright. RMC (via Get French Football News) also say Spurs would be interested in including a PSG player in exchange for Tanguy, but there are no good options that match Antonio Conte’s style of play. .
break | PSG and Tottenham Hotspur talks over Tanguy Ndombele’s loan with option to buy – the clubs are also discussing a possible player swap, but are struggling to find a suitable Les Parisiens player, according to RMC. More follows.
– Receive French football news (@GFFN) January 20, 2022
There’s a certain poetic symmetry in place here, if that movement manifests itself. Pochettino is the most instrumental man in bringing Ndombele to England in the first place; he was a perfect midfield addition for Pochettino’s brand of football. But Ndombele picked up an injury shortly after his arrival, Tottenham went off the rails and Pochettino was sent off. We all know what happened to Tanguy after that.
Now it’s a little weird that Pochettino apparently can’t create a world-class midfielder out of the likes of Marco Varratti, Leandro Paredes, Georgino Wijnaldum, Julian Draxler and Angel Di Maria, but hey maybe Tanguy is this missing piece for them. As a founding member of the Tanguy Defense League, it would certainly warm the burnt ashes of my heart to see Ndombele win a Champions League with Pochettino. And also make me cry a little, probably. For a bunch of reasons.
Anyway, I like this movement a lot more than the idea of Ndombele going to Rome.
