Nkoudou’s Tottenham failure underlines Pochettino’s need to improve transfer record

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Tottenham wideman Georges-Kevin Nkoudou is set for a loan move away from north London during this month’s transfer window, according to Foot Mercato.

They report that Nkoudou has grown frustrated at not featuring at all since the EFL Cup victory over West Ham on October 31 and has asked the club to grant him a loan move this month.

Spurs have apparently accepted his demand and are now fielding interest from clubs in France, Spain, Germany and Italy; there is clearly no shortage of potential suitors.

But Nkoudou has undoubtedly been a Tottenham transfer flop and while the loan move could turn him into a player Mauricio Pochettino can rely on, it looks unlikely.

Pochettino has done some outstanding transfer business during his time at Tottenham but he has also dropped some clangers in the marketplace; Nkoudou, Clinton N’Jie and Serge Aurier to name three.

That is somewhere he will have to improve, especially if Tottenham’s attempts to keep him away from the clutches of Manchester United and Real Madrid involve Daniel Levy granting him increased backing in the transfer market.

He has been shopping in a different market to the rest of the top six, given the wage and transfer budget restrictions Levy imposes, but nevertheless, Tottenham will need his eye for a player to be spot on from here on in.