Why Tanguy Ndombele will be so important to Tottenham and Mauricio Pochettino in 2019/20

Tanguy Ndombele

Genius. The sense was that Mauricio Pochettino was not using the word lightly.

The Tottenham manager has spent a footballing lifetime rubbing shoulders with luminaries – and few, he thought, qualified for that description. There was Diego Maradona, a former room-mate, and two showmen who were Paris Saint-Germain team-mates in Jay-Jay Okocha and Ronaldinho. In February 2018, he identified another: Mousa Dembele.

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Richard Jolly

Richard Jolly also writes for the National, the Guardian, the Observer, the Straits Times, the Independent, Sporting Life, Football 365 and the Blizzard. He has written for the FourFourTwo website since 2018 and for the magazine in the 1990s and the 2020s, but not in between. He has covered 1500+ games and remembers a disturbing number of the 0-0 draws.