Tottenham Hotspur are close to waving goodbye to Georges-Kevin N’Koudou.
Tottenham Hotspur winger Georges-Kevin N’Koudou is close to leaving the club for Besiktas, report L’Equipe.
If you had offered Spurs the chance to never sign N’Koudou in 2016, they would probably go back and ensure they did not.
But its difficult to fault the process which led Spurs to sign the winger.
In 2016 N’Koudou was one of French football’s top rising stars.
He was a France under-21 international, who featured in the same team as the likes of Presnel Kimpembe (PSG), Clement Lenglet (Barcelona) and Corentin Tolisso (Bayern).
N’Koudou netted 10 goals for Marseille in all competitions in 2015/16, an excellent tally for a player who was just 21.
Now 24, it would be generous to say N’Koudou’s career has stagnated.
He has only 592 minutes of football to his name for Tottenham over three seasons, the equivalent to six and a half 90 minute games.
N’Koudou has never been able to win over Mauricio Pochettino and an exit is a long time coming. Poor loan spells at Monaco and Burnley haven’t helped.
Criticising Tottenham for not giving him more chances, or selling him sooner, may be fair comment, but the reasoning of their decision to sign him in the first place still holds up, even though it worked out terribly.
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