Tottenham have secured the signings of two top quality stars this summer by hiring the services of a strong defensive midfielder like Victor Wanyama and a proven goalscorer like Vincent Janssen.
However, the North Londoners are now going to secure a pointless deal by signing Marseille’s Nkoudou and letting Clinton Njie leave White Hart Lane to join the French side.
According to reports (Football Insider via Mirror), the Cameroonian international has completed his medical with the Ligue 1 side and Nkoudou is closer to joining Spurs.
Njie signed for Tottenham last summer from Lyon and did not even get a fair chance last season. He had an injury hit campaign and did not even start a single league game under the management of Pochettino.
In 2014-15, the 22-year-old attacker scored 7 goals and provided 8 assists for Lyon in 30 league appearances. On the other hand, Nkoudou scored 5 goals and provided 3 assists in 41 games for Marseille last season.
The mentioned stars are very similar type of players. Both can play out-wide on either flank and also in the center forward position when needed.
The duo’s main strength is their pace and trickery to get past opponents. As far as the goal-scoring is concerned, Njie and Nkoudou are not prolific but the African star is slightly better.
Adding to that, the French international will mostly warm the bench after joining Spurs. Njie would have done the same as well if Pochettino had decided to keep him. Therefore, the fact that the Argentine boss wants to replace Clinton with the 21-year-old starlet does not really make much sense.
Tottenham are Securing a Pointless Transfer Deal
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Your comment that N’Jie “did not even get a fair chance last season” is completely untrue. Whilst he did suffer injury, so did other players… The fact is that when he WAS fit, EVERY DAY in training he WAS given a fair chance, but didn’t show he was worthy of a starting place. Pochetino has to pick his best team, and he bases that on what he says 7 days a week on the training ground. What N’Jie showed him was that he wasn’t good enough… He WAS however given the chance… He just didn’t cut the mustard
He scored 11 and assisted 5 plus looks like a much better around prospect, in saying that I’d keep n’jie and bentaleb but what do I know!
Eriksen wants first team football, Tottenham would provide him with the continuation of that. He can play as a central midfielder, an attacking midfielder or behind the striker, he’d get into the team. Then there’s the Vertonghen connection, to tell Eriksen just how wonderful it is at Spurs.