Tanguy Ndombele: Jose Mourinho slates Tottenham's record signing
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Tottenham Hotspur boss Jose Mourinho singled out the club's £54m record signing Tanguy Ndombele for criticism after substituting the midfielder at half-time in the 1-1 draw at Burnley.
Spurs dominated midfield in the opening 45 minutes and Burnley capitalised when Chris Wood put the hosts ahead.
Ndombele and Oliver Skipp made way for Giovani lo Celso and Lucas Moura at the break as Spurs fought back for a draw.
"In the first half we didn't have a midfield," said Mourinho.
"Of course I'm not speaking of Skipp because he's a kid of 19 who's played two hours in the last few days. I don't criticise him at all.
"But I'm not going to run away and I have to say he [Ndombele] has had enough time to come to a different level.
"I know the Premier League is difficult, and some players take a long time to adapt to a different league.
"But a player with his potential has to give us more than he is giving us, especially when you see how Lucas, Lo Celso and those players are playing. I was expecting more in the first half from him."
The double change worked for Tottenham as they put in a much-improved second-half display and Dele Alli's penalty earned the visitors a point.
Mourinho suggested Ndombele - who joined Spurs from Lyon last summer and has made 24 appearances this season - may find it difficult to get back into the side.
"Many fantastic players in their first season, in a new country, for different reasons they struggle," the former Chelsea and Manchester United boss added. "There have been many examples of that.
"He's a player with great talent. He has to know he has to do much better and know I cannot keep giving him opportunities to play because the team is much more important."
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Is it about time we start calling him a specialist in failure?
Mourinho is a checkbook manager not a man manager! There's a reason why he keeps on losing dressing rooms!
Just remember Spurs fans the beginning under Mourinho is the good times (yes 8th place is the good times for you). Just wait until the dressing room starts turning on him (which it inevitably will) then things will start to get real ugly!!
Since then Mourinho has managed 17 league games for Man United and 17 league games for Spurs.
Of these 34 games he's won 15 of them, giving him a win percentage of 44%.
You read that right, 44% without Faria!! He's a fraud!!!
I guess he was upset that he'd been made to look a total mug by Klopp and Guardiola during his last year at United and wanted to give the premier league another crack.
Spurs is the 1st team he's been at which hasn't been the richest or 2nd richest club in their own league.
And he's flopped, big time!
#LessMoneyMoreProblemsJose
He is a tedious, divisive, hateful little man. Any club that chooses to employ him have nobody to blame but themselves.
When his career first started he regularly had 2.5 good years before falling out with everyone at the end of the third season.
At United he had 1.5 good years and then alienated everyone.
At Spurs it was, what, 3 months?