Sad news for Tottenham: he will never return

It’s been an odd campaign for Tottenham Hotspur this season.

Ange Postecoglou’s side have been absolutely ravaged by injuries all year, which, alongside some already spotty form from the end of last season, has seen their results in the Premier League vary wildly from week to week.

It wasn’t too long ago that picking up a win looked an impossible task, yet all of a sudden, they picked up their third league victory on the bounce on Saturday, which goes to show that, when fit, the North Londoners do have a lot of talent within their squad.

In fact, one of their more promising players has recently been compared to one of the most exciting and valuable midfielders in Europe and looks to be one of their recent rare successful acquisitions from Ligue .

It’s too soon to cast a definitive judgment on Kevin Danso’s Spurs’ future, but it would be fair to say that the Lilywhites do not have a particularly good track record when it comes to signing players from Ligue 1.

The most notable example of this has to be Tanguy Ndombele, who joined the club for around £63m from Lyon in the summer of 2019 and did so to a lot of fanfare.

Unfortunately, instead of helping to revolutionise the North Londoners’ midfield, the Frenchman became arguably their biggest flop, making just 91 appearances for the team between the 19/20 and 21/22 campaigns, and going out on three loan moves before joining OGC Nice for free in July 2024.

A cheaper flop was Serge Aurier, who joined the club from Paris Saint-Germain for around £23m in the summer of 2017 as a replacement for Kyle Walker.

The trouble-making right-back managed to get himself sent off in his first Premier League start for the club, was described as generally “erratic” by Spurs icon .