Tanguy Ndombele arrived to Tottenham Hotspur as the club’s most expensive player when he joined the Cockerels from Lyon for the eye-watering fee of $66 million in 2019. Now, Spurs boss Antonio Conte doesn’t want him in his squad and is given the player’s agents a clear indication that they should find a new club for the 25-year-old Frenchman. That club is Napoli.The Neapolitans have started the season brightly with a 5-2 victory at Hellas Verona on Monday evening. Still, their boss Luciano Spalletti isn’t finished assembling the squad for the rest of the campaign. The midfield strongman with Congolese roots has already told his friends that he will join the Campania region club.##NAJAVA_MECA_6564924##Ndombele was one of four players banished from first-team training by Conte, alongside Sergio Reguilon, Harry Winks and Giovani Lo Celso. Ndombele spent the latter half of last season at old club Lyon, but the French giants couldn’t afford to buy the midfielder back. Thankfully, a club competing in the UEFA Champions League showed interest in him, making his impending transfer not much of a step down. He will be fighting near the top of the Serie A standings – or at least, that’s the plan.Napoli will initially pay Tottenham a loan fee of $1 million and will have the option of signing Ndombele permanently for a fee of around $30 million. 🚨 Napoli are close to an agreement for the signing of Tanguy Ndombele. They will pay a €1m loan fee and have an option to buy for €30m.(Source: @DiMarzio) pic.twitter.com/KTEzIjw5wa— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) August 15, 2022 The Italian club endured a turbulent transfer window so far. They lost Kalidou Koulibaly to Chelsea, Dries Mertens to Galatasaray and Lorenzo Insigne to Toronto FC. The three players formed the backbone of the Napoli team for a significant number of years and fans had grown to be unhappy with the club’s owner Aurelio De Laurentiis.Spurs are getting rid of a flop, albeit with a loss of around $30 million. And Napoli might just end up getting a bargain at the fraction of what the north Londoners paid for the former Amiens youngster.
