Serie A outfit AS Roma, have expressed interest in signing Tottenham winger Georges-Kevin N’Koudou, in the ongoing January transfer window, but the north Londoners aren’t too keen to let the French speedster go.
Since arriving the White Hart Lane from Marseille in the summer transfer window for £11million, the 21-year-old has played only 36 minutes of Premier League football and started just a League Cup game in all his 11 appearances across all competitions.
Having spent just half a year of the 5-year deal he signed in August, it’s understandable why Pochettino wouldn’t want to let him leave after just a short while, but if there are any reasons N’Koudou should be let go, they are these:
He won’t be breaking into the first team soon
With competition for places so high within the Tottenham ranks, clinching a starting berth in the first XI seems impossible for the winger, and he just wouldn’t be breaking into it anytime soon.
He is turning out to be another Clinton N’jie – who moved the other way during his transfer after failing to hold down any claim for more regular playing time.
While 5 months seems a little time for a new player to break into a star-studded team as Tottenham’s, the early signs aren’t promising for N’Koudou. His only start, which he didn’t finish, came in the EFL Cup game against Liverpool, and in all the other 10 appearances he has made, he has had to come off the bench as a late sub in most of them.
A loan term away might be a better option if Tottenham don’t want to let him go permanently, but his future at the White Hart Lane just doesn’t seem guaranteed right now.
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