Ndombélé is an anti-Levy fan
Ndombélé is an anti-Levy fan
Morning folks,writing live now 08:30 am ahead of feeding the birds their breakfast but this Tanguy Ndombélé situation certainly is dividing our supporters, both the rational and irrational.
In our Tottenham Tittle Tattle today (Friday) there are no sabre-toothed tiger or woolly mammoths so those of a nervous disposition may come out from behind the sofa.
I did rather enjoy throwing them in, you never know what you're going to get from this blog do you,apart from pro-Spurs rhetoric and a shed load of common sense.
OK, are you out from behind the sofa, (perhaps I should delve into Doctor Who for inspiration in an article,we'll see), good,now sit down with a cuppa and let's take another Tottenham Tittle Tattle journey.
In our Tottenham Tittle Tattle today (Friday) there are no sabre-toothed tiger or woolly mammoths so those of a nervous disposition may come out from behind the sofa.
I did rather enjoy throwing them in, you never know what you're going to get from this blog do you,apart from pro-Spurs rhetoric and a shed load of common sense.
OK, are you out from behind the sofa, (perhaps I should delve into Doctor Who for inspiration in an article,we'll see), good,now sit down with a cuppa and let's take another Tottenham Tittle Tattle journey.
Takes sip of tea.
The situation is as clear as that, tea should always be the preferred drink in the morning, coffee doesn't work, horrible stuff.
Now that cause a debate too, that divides.
So what is happening?
Just to throw in the eyes are poor this morning, certainly now, they may get better as the day goes on but the odd mistake might slip in.
Are we selling Ndombélé?
In short no, but there are several factors at play here.
1. Spurs made him our most expensive purchase.
He has ability, he has potential, of that there is no doubt. He will go on to be an excellent midfielder,but where?
The Spurs board do not want to sell him but you have to balance that with what he is producing, nothing.
2. His entourage want him out of Spurs.
The stories you see in the press, the latest two being a swap for Coutinho (who is on double the £200K wages of Ndombélé) and Inter Milan swap deals are put about by his agent,either directly or through clubs who would be interested.
The aim to upset the camp, to create an air of discontent at Spurs. To see constant speculation so the Spurs hierarchy will have had enough of it and let him go and an excuse for the player himself not to put the effort in during training.
It is the same tactics Real Madrid use to unsettle our players, they use the press, you have all seen it with Bale and Modric.
This tactic is not new.
5. Tanguy Ndombélé isn't performing because he doesn't want to, that couldn't be plainer.
A manager picks a player who is showing on the training field tht he deserves a starting berth, that he is hungry and desperate for one. He goes the extra mile to prove it.
That is down to his attitude, his mentality and until he changes his own mentality, he will not do what it takes and will not perform to the best of his abilities.
Most seem to have forgotten the very same thing happened with Étienne Capoue.
He was another player coming from the French league where he thought he was entitled to a starting berth and that he shouldn't have to fight for it.
He admitted this years later after being at Watford for a season.
Capoue said it was HIS fault, not Tottenham's, that he thought he should just walk into the team and that he hadn't had to fight for a place in France. He assumed it was the same in England.
That isn't my interpretation, that's what he himself said.
That exact situation is what we have with Tanguy Ndombélé.
The resolution relies squarely with Ndombélé not Tottenham, but a sports psychologist would sort it out so why isn't he undergoing work with one every week?
Ndombélé signed because the stock of Tottenham was high at that point and because Pochettino tolg Ndombélé that he was going to build a title winning team at Spurs within two years.
Ten games later that was sawdust.
So Ndombélé has been sold a dream that is now no longer.
The situation he is in is not the situation he signed up to.
He wants to play Champions League football,we only have Europa League football.
You can see why ge is mentally despondent.
the resolution is to see this as an opportunity to win a European trophy, to stand out in a side to secure a move to Real Madrid or Barcelona etc (clubs guaranteed to win things).
Personally I don't care what motivation he uses but he must find the motivation from somewhere.
People with a negative outlook go into a downward spiral of negativity, you see our anti-Levy fans, it's all they do, they can't see any positives (or choose not to) but they focus on the negatives.
They latch onto as many negatives as they can to justify their opinion, they must in their own minds be proven right thus they only look for negatives that back that up.
Successful people do the opposite, they look for the positives, they create an air of positivity, an environment of positivity because better results in any form of business or sport are achieved when the mind is more receptive and in a confident frame.
You have seen how difficulty it is on Twitter to turn a negative failure mindset into a successful positive outlook.
They simply don't want to do it, they did their heels in and thing of all the negative things they can and just totally dismiss the positive facts as if they didn't exist.
Well Ndombélé, at the moment, has the mindset of an anti-Levy fan.
Now that sounds like a task of huge magnitude but the morsel of hope (how do I fit dogs dinner into this) is that if he were one such, he would be a new convert, not a 20-year battle hardened veteran.
Easier to turn a new recruit isn't it.
Now before some take this literally, I will point out this is hypothetical to make a point, but it helps both sides see the issue with him.
To put it another way, he is a floating voter, not having decided which way he wants to vote.
You can see in both those situations he would have to make a decision, he would have to commit to one side or the other or aample along not bothered I suppose, which is where he is isn't he?
So how do you bring him down onto your side when hsi agent or entourage are looking for and creating negatives?
I have said many times, skill is not enough, if you do not have the mentality to go with the skill you will never be the player you could be, you will never be Messi or Ronaldo or Bale when his head was chasing his dream move.
Bale is another example isn't he,driven do what it takes to get to where he wants to be then after a few years it all wears off and the drive has gone so the player isn't anywhere near the same player.
That overhead kick in the Champions League final. do you do that when your head is in a positive confident mindset or when you are out of form, mentally negative, lacking confidence.
If you did try you'd fail but more than likely you would stay in your shell and not attempt it.
There are reports from a former coach that he has to feel the love, that he needs an arm around his shoulder, feel wanted, important.
That tells me he has a weak mentality, has insecurity issues.
Well for gods sake,that's the realm of a sports psychologist!
We wouldn't be in this mess with him, battling against each other if he had been having weekly sessions would we.
Now I know everyone wouldn't buy into it, those.
You only have to look at our own fans, many of whom with no training in the field dismissing something they know nothing about as poppycock.
There will be footballers like that, but those are the footballers who you'd arguably not want in your side anyway, their mind isn't open to improvement.
But plenty would see it as an interesting new angle that is worth a try, something unique to Spurs, a USP (Unique Selling Point), exactly what we need when we can't offer Champions League football or the top wages.
Anyway I hadn't planned to turn this post into another call for their use so I'd better stop there before you get me going again.
To say Ndombélédoes not have a mentality problem at the moment is to bury your head in the sand.
He does.
The only issue is how you solve it.
How would you do it, how would you change an anti-Levy fan, a floating voter?
If you pick him above others when he doesn't deserve it, that isn't going to go down very well because there is no fairness to the situation, plus until he decides he is now wanted and starts performing, how many points will we have dropped?
Will it take 5 games, 10 games?
10 games you have sat another player on the bench who by his effort in training and on the pitch shows he deserves a starting spot above Ndombélé.
Everyone can't play, it's a juggling act, everyone should be fighting for a place on the training field, they are not.
How many days do you go into work and go through the motions?
Don't lie now, you do do it, some days you are more motivated than others, some days you are happier than others, some days you have a more confident outlook, a more confident expectation than others.
It is the same for a footballer.
How does anyone get you into the right frame of mind?
They don't, you do.
This is down to Ndombélé to do.
Will he stay, will he go?
That is down to Ndombélé.
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