Can Gordon Ramsay sort out Tanguy Ndombélé
Can Gordon Ramsay sort out Tanguy Ndombélé
Hello once again on Sunday morning on what looks like another belter of a day, to some more Tottenham Tittle Tattle.
This blog for any new reader stumbling drunkenly across it does not just regurgitate the latest transfer news as is you have never heard it before, nor will you find made up journalistic nonsense all the time.
There is an ITK account out there promoting Kilpatrick and Gold as two unofficial Spurs mouthpieces which is totally untrue.
Spurs don't feed these two information and not others.
That would upset all the other newspapers and that isn't something a club, any club wishes to do.
The club require all the press on their side, alienating most of it would be a dumb business practice and our chairman ain't dumb.
Off on a tangent this early in the morning, I haven't even finished my first cup of tea yet.
OK, let's get down to it, I made a cheese, mushroom and bacon omelet last night.
Now the key to a successful omelet is a hot frying pan greased with a little oim to stop sticking.
First ook the mushroom and bacon pieces to your liking, then add the egg and milk mix (easy on the milk) having added salt and any desired herb (herb not essential).
After a minute of moving the mix about place cheese slices (proper cheese) or grated cheese on top and place under the grill.
The grill will cook and rise your omelet so it becomes thick and wholesome instead of thin, if you leave it on the hob.
Right that was your quick culinary lesson but does it have the approval of Gordon Ramsay?
I'm watching Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares USA (obviously this bit was written last night) where every chef or cook things there is nothing wrong with their food, I can cook better than half this lot.
For those of you who don't know the programme, he goes into restaurants across America to rescue them, find out the problems and turn them around.
Anyway, the point is, to mend a business, he has to look at all the elements, look at how it fits together and look at the personality issues.
He comes up against owners who see nothing wrong, who refuse to accept any criticism and are totally reluctant to change.
Tanguy Ndombélé is a bit like that.
He wants to be playing for a team that is winning things and who guarantee him a starting berth.
He thought he was joining a team who would be challenging for the Premier League title and as we are not he doesn't want to be here.
As I have said for months and months, he has not been putting in the effort required, he has been going through the motions.
Now, Gordon Ramsay has to break people down, he has to push and push until they crack.
Once they crack, once they genuinely accept they are part of the problem and how they do things must change, he can't start to improve that restaurant.
Until a player appreciates he is the problem, José isn't going to improve the product.
So throughout his career he come across players he has had to break, to rebuild.
It is confrontational style.
Mourinho is a winner, he knows what it takes to win, he knows a winner when he sees one and he knows a player who doesn't have the mentality of a winner,a player who has to be carried to success by those around him and it would seem he has found one in Tanguy Ndombélé.
There are two options, either he gets though that it's not my fault attitude of Ndombélé, the I can't be bothered, I have given up attitude or the Frenchman has to be shown the door and players who want to play for Spurs brought in, not a player who doesn't.
I apologise to all those fans who think they know better than José because you don't, you have never managed a football team, you couldn't, you have never won a major trophy, yet you know better than someone who has won multiple major trophies, you don't.
When Gordon cracks an owner, then they are open to change, then he can introduce the changes that improve the owner as an owner and the functioning of the restaurant.
It becomes a quality restaurant.
José Mourinho is doing the same thing at Spurs.
Those who buy into what a winner wants and is doing, they step up to the plate.
Those who haven't bought in, like Ndombélé, don't.
Why should Mourinho play a player who he can't trust and who doesn't want to play for Spurs?
A player who doesn't want to play for a club doesn't produce his best football and again, if a player isn't going to produce his best football why should you play him?
Why do you think there are stories about Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan popping up almost daily?
He is trying to engineer a way out of the club, is that the sort of player you want playing for this club?
If it is, then you need to stop complaining about winning no trophies because there is no way you win anything with players not all giving their best.
You say you want trophies yet you want to heep players who will stop you winning trophies, players who are showing the wrong attitude.
I have said this before, well all of this before, but you have to build a team, a squad of players who have a winning mentality, a mentality that drives a player to try to be be better every week.
Tanguy Ndombélé does not have that mentality at the moment.
He may have it in a different environment, he may not, only time will tell that.
What we invested in him is irrelevant, we can get that back in a sale even in a depressed market.
We must use him as a bargaining chip to bring in several new faces of quality, then his sale won't be in vain.
The only reason to keep him is if he changes his attitude, but he has a weak mentality.
To put it roughly, he is a Mummys Boy, he needs an arm around his shoulder, to be mollycoddled, to be told he is loved, to feel wanted.
That is not a winning mentality and quite frankly we should have found out about this side of him before we bought him.
Then, when having found out, we shouldn't have gone anywhere near him.
Now,having crucified him, lets look for signs of hope,although they are few and far between.
When the transfer window closes he has to try his best on simply not play again.
That isn't good for his career.
The other factor in his favour is Erik Lamela.
He had mentality issues when he arrived, he wanted to go back to Italy, he hid in games, would stay out wide on the wing and not go anywhere near the box.
He wouldn't get into scoring positions and when he got the ball,he would run sideways with it and go nowhere.
Then though, when he decided he is staying, he started to fight for a place, he started attacking the penalty area when he got the ball, he would get himself into scoring positions, he would put the defensive effort in.
He isn't perfect, he still makes too many poor decisions, but his commitment now can not be faulted, his mentality is to do all he can off the field to perform if and when picked.
Can Tanguy Ndombélé go through the same change?
If he can then keeping him would be the right thing to do.
The problem is nobody knows for certain, which Ndombélé we'll get.
People will only know with hindsight.
I can see his mindset but I have no idea whether he will want to change it so I'm still sat on the fence with him.
PS. When you read this Gordon, my brother has now opened a place in Chatham, The Lemon Tree opposite an Argos store.
It is a tough time to open a food business, a trained chef I'm sure he'll do well in the long run so next time you are in the Medway area, get in touch.
I'm sure your ideas would be beneficial .
I don't see anyone doing a post-lockdown start a restaurant programme, might be an idea, something different as a one-off.
PS. When you read this Gordon, my brother has now opened a place in Chatham, The Lemon Tree opposite an Argos store.
It is a tough time to open a food business, a trained chef I'm sure he'll do well in the long run so next time you are in the Medway area, get in touch.
I'm sure your ideas would be beneficial .
I don't see anyone doing a post-lockdown start a restaurant programme, might be an idea, something different as a one-off.
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