New footage of £65m Tottenham flop Tanguy Ndombele goes viral as he appears out-of-shape and struggling playing on loan for Galatasaray after remarkable transformation

Images have emerged of an out-of-form Tanguy Ndombele struggling to play for Galatasaray after a remarkable transformation.

The Frenchman joined Tottenham from Lyon in 2019 for £65 million and remains the club’s record signing to this day.

But he failed to live up to expectations and was loaned out to Napoli last season before being loaned out to Galatasaray last summer.

Ndombele has played just 385 minutes of competitive football for the Turkish national team so far this season, with many reports suggesting he is struggling with his fitness.

And footage of a cup match against Umraniye, involving Ndombele, seemed to prove that.

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It appears the 27-year-old midfielder has put on weight as he struggled to drag himself around the pitch.

Issues with his fitness were raised by Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou before the start of the campaign. The Australian told football.london that Ndombele was among the Tottenham players who were ‘physically a bit behind the rest too, you know’.

Postecoglou added that ‘the way we play is a bit of what I have to be strong about and that is that you have to have a certain physical level to play this kind of football’.

Ndombele has been dogged by concerns about his weight throughout his career and has regularly struggled with his fitness.

Former Spurs manager Jose Mourinho publicly called out Ndombele after taking him off the pitch at half-time following a draw at Burnley, while ex-Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit also blasted the midfielder in 2020, claiming he was overweight used to be.

Galatasaray is his fourth club in four years after failed loan spells at Napoli and Lyon following his arrival at Spurs.