Spurs seek and get permission

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For Kevin Georges_N'Koudou to train Tottenham have had to seek the permission of Marseille, as he is still a Marseille player, even though to all intensive purposes they have sold him. He is already budgeted as sold and the previous president Vincent Lebrune had to guarantee certain player sales before the end of the window, Michy Batshuayi being another one.

Now from the out side we can only report what the French are saying and the impression is that, while their are changes in management, as we knew was going to happen, at Marseille, this transfer has to go through. The arguments have all been over payment structure and we have secured a reduction in fee because the player isn't fit, he hasn't been training with Marseille.

Gym work, running, non ball work does not get you match fit, it merely maintains a level of fitness from which you need a pre-season to get yourself fully fit. You can see that from our first game against Everton when the players who had only had two weeks training were poor, they weren't yet match fit.

Georges-Kevin N'Koudou is in the same boat, he now needs his pre-season and a few cameo appearances to get fit, the trouble is the season has started and there are no friendly games, Under-21 games are nothing like senior team games so even they can only take him so far.

French paper L'Equipe inform us thta N'Koudou is doing ball-free work to begin to build his fitness levels since Wednesday and that N'Koudou has already signed a contract.

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