Antonio Conte Tasks Tanguy Ndombele To Seize Spurs Opportunity

Written By Jacobs Dunga

Tanguy Ndmobele arrived as Tottenham’s record signing in 2019 but the Frenchman man has struggled to show the form that made Spurs cough out such amount.

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After two seasons with Olympique Lyonnais, first of which was on loan from Amiens. Tanguy Ndombele caught the eye of several big European powerhouses with strings of impressive showings for the Ligue 1 outfit.

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Tottenham under the stewardship of Mauricio Pochettino eventually won the race to sign the then 22-year-old for a fee of £55m. He started like he was going to replicate that form that brought him to England but gradually regressed in performances and eventually lost his place in the team.

Three managers have passed since his arrival and Ndombele is yet to establish himself in the team. With Antonio Conte’s arrival, the 24-year-old is now playing under the fourth manager in just two years at the club.

Conte has however issued a warning to the seven time capped French international to shape up and seize his opportunity or face further axe from the team.

Conte has urged Ndombele to put the team performance ahead of playing for himself. The Frenchman could be thrown in from the start with Oliver Skipp suspended and Pierre Emile Hojbjerg just recovering from a leg injury.

“Yeah, I have seen that many managers struggle about this situation, about the position – for sure Tanguy has the quality,” said Conte in his pre-match press conference on Friday.

“At the same time he has to understand that there is a team and he has to play into the team.”

“I think it means that it is important to keep order and to do what the position asks you to do.

“For sure with Tanguy we are working. We are working very hard. He has to work much more than the others, because he has talent but he has to put this talent into the team for the best of the team, not for the single player.”

“In my football I have an idea and in this idea there are tasks for the players. Every single player has to know what he has to do. Otherwise if every player just goes and runs around the pitch, I think it will be a mess.”

Meanwhile…

Jesse Lingard could be heading out of Manchester United in the January transfer window or next summer when his contract expires.

News broke on Friday afternoon that talks involving the player and his current employers, Manchester United over a new deal actually broke down with the 28 year old now bent on continuing his career elsewhere.

A hint on where his next move would be could actually have surfaced if anything posted on his Instagram story is anything to go by.

Lingard shared an original post by West Ham United where he was celebrating of his goals while on loan at the Hammers just at the time talks with United stalled with fans contemplating it could actually be an indirect message on where his future lies.

Lingard scored nine goals in sixteen appearances for West Ham United while on loan in the second half of last season.

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