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Tottenham Hotspur are eyeing a £50m move for Tanguy Ndombele this summer, according to The Sun.
What’s the story?
With Spurs not indulging in a single incoming transfer last season fans are craving investment in the team that reached the UEFA Champions League final.
There’s a feeling that with some key additions, Mauricio Pochettino’s team can be a real force on multiple fronts next term.
To that end, the club are looking to sign Ndombele say the paper, a Lyon midfielder who has been one of the stand-out talents on the continent over the last 12 months.
The report states that the Ligue 1 outfit are looking for around £70m for him in the upcoming transfer window but that Spurs are confident of landing the 22-year-old for around £50m.
With recruitment so important for the club over the next few months, is Ndombele the right kind of player they should be looking at?
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Where would he fit in?
With an elite attack and reasonably solid defensive line, the central midfield area is one of the weakest parts of the Spurs first-team.
Talents like Eric Dier and Victor Wanyama do have ability but have been unable to keep up with the ever increasing demands Pochettino has placed on his group of players.
Spurs have serious ambitions and need fresh ideas in the middle of the park to help make those ambitions a reality.
Ndombele has the quality and all-round output to provide both defensive stability and a dash of attacking prowess that would make both Dier and Wanyama obsolete.
Stellar all-rounder
That’s best demonstrated by the 5 foot 11 midfielder’s performance in the UEFA Champions League last season where he made eight appearances in total.
With an average of 2.4 tackles and 1.5 interceptions per game in the competition you may think he had a focus on the more defensive side of the game, but that sells the French international short when you consider he was also completing an average 2.9 dribbles per game, 1.1 shots and even pitched in with two goals.
Those kind of numbers, both in defence and attack, are well beyond what Dier and Wanyama managed in the same competition.
If Spurs are to reach the next level in their progression they need players like Ndombele who can take control of a match and have an influence from box to box – a true link between defence and attack.
Currently, attacking stars like Harry Kane can look a little isolated from his teammates through the middle, never more so than in the recent final against Liverpool.
The Lyon man can solve that problem and that’s why a move for him makes so much sense this summer.