Didier Ndong

Discussion in 'Former Players Archive' started by hornmeister, Feb 8, 2018.

  1. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Looks like he has been given Sir Lloyd of Doyley's shirt. Too soon? I'm still in mourning.
     
  2. simpleMASH

    simpleMASH Reservist

    Can he disrespect it any worse than Kenedy?
     
  3. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    From what I have seen of him so far, he looks good! He looks fine!

    I'm so glad I made him mine.

    Now we'll be together nearly every single Saturday.

    We'll be so happy and that's how it's gonna stay, singing...

     
  4. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Come on Javi! You've turned round Etienne, you've turned round Sebastian, you've turned round Orestis.

    Diddy's had his problems in England so far. It's not been working out. With him...

     
  5. wfcSinatra

    wfcSinatra Predictor Choker 14/15

    Is this guy dead? Injured? Useless?
     
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  6. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Is he Chalobah’s stunt double in those encouraging but slightly blurry vids on the running machine?

    Btw, did anyone else note Chalobah on the Chelsea bench today?!

    Officially it’s his brother but looks like Abramovich sold us broken Chalobah & kept working Chalobah for himself.

    Fml.
     
  7. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I've seen him play in a youth match that Sky showed a while back.
    He's got very funky hair.
     
  8. wingco

    wingco Reservist

    Made sense at the time. I wasn't expecting Capoue to become functional again, so I doubt the transfer team had much faith in him either.

    He didn't get on against Chelsea or West Ham, so I wonder whether the club have told Javi they don't fancy buying him
     
  9. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

    Ndong's looking well placed to snatch the title of Most Pointless Signing Ever from Lucas Neill. Jerome Sinclair was on the bench today - given the squad we put out today, we'd have needed injuries to Deeney, Okaka, Gray and Richarlison before he got on. If Gracia would rather have a 5th choice striker on the bench than any cover for defensive midfield away at one of the bigger teams in the league, then it doesn't bode well for him playing at all this season.
     
  10. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    If he is only on loan might as well send the guy back to Sunderland - is Cleverley nearing fitness?
     
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  11. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    I guess those 'personal reasons' were the fact that he is, as we all knew from the fact he couldn't get into the side of the bottom club in the Championship, absolute dogshit.
     
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  12. Steve Leo Beleck

    Steve Leo Beleck Squad Player

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  13. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Guess we won't be signing him then!
     
  14. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Classic Ponzo signing
     
  15. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Least he got on the bench...
     
  16. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    He’s next season’s Doucoure. Not trusted to play by this coach but will prove to be the lynch pin of our midfield under the next coach.
     
  17. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Looked quality jogging up the touchline and waving his foot around.
     
  18. Surely that's illegal - there were children in the stand...
     
  19. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Diddy nDong for a reason.
     
  20. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

  21. Archived version...

    http://archive.is/4E1ZX
     
  22. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Thanks. Does seem a bizarre signing where coach and recruitment team weren't aligned.
     
  23. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    Hang on, ITKJim assured us all that the reason he wasn't playing was purely down to personal reasons.

    Are you suggesting that he was talking directly out of his fart locker? Surely not!
     
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  24. ITKJim

    ITKJim Reservist

    I said he missed one game due to personal reasons which is a fact you gigantic halfwit.
     
  25. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    So, tiny brain, if he hadn't had these mysterious personal issues you believe he'd have played in that one match. I see.

    If a youth team player breaks his leg, is that then the reason he isn't a first team regular?
     
  26. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Shut up you gigantic halfwit.
     
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  27. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    lol what a ******* shambles this signing has been - another one to join the Pozzo scrap heap.
     
  28. Jossy

    Jossy Reservist

    Was he not signed just as injury insurance - i.e - should none of our injured midfielders not return, or we pick up further knocks, then we have somebody to step in rather than playing others out of position?

    With the return of Hughes, and hopefully no more crocked players, I very much doubt we'll ever see him in the starting eleven. Getting him on loan from a desperate Sunderland means we're not stuck with him for 3 or 4 years, so I don't think it's been a terrible signing.

    Had none of our players returned and/or others pulled up injured, we'd be criticising the club for not bringing in cover during the transfer window.
     
  29. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player


    He was their record signing so will have been trousering a decent wage, which we have no doubt been paying. I get what you're saying, but it's impossible to describe it as anything but a ******* shambles, as mentioned above.

    Though if he hadnt had personal problems he'd be starting every match and would be our top scorer apparently. So there's that.
     
  30. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    File Didier Ndong under ‘Raffael Romo’

    At least Samba Diakite had the decency have a game and get sent off. Ndong seems to just have threatened as much.

    Will be a good quiz question though. The only player to have never played for us but still have missed games through suspension.
     
  31. reids

    reids First Team

    Ndong was signed in the midst of an injury crisis in midfield, with Pererya, Cleverley, Chalobah and Hughes all out injured. An injury to Capoue or Doucoure would've left us ****ed. Signing Ndong was to provide us with some sort of cover (other than calling a youth team player up or sticking a CB in midfield) if that were to happen. Sure we're probably paying a large amount of his wage (if not all of it) but the Pozzos were simply providing options so Gracia wasn't left short. He hasn't played a minute of football because he hasn't needed to. Would it have been nice to maybe see him make an appearance from the bench? Quite possibly, but I'm not against that fact that he hasn't.
     
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  32. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    I'm with reids and jossy on this one. He was signed as injury cover, nothing more. Sometimes you need to look a little deeper folks.
     
  33. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Sunderland will make a huge loss on the player. Woeful financial management. Ligue 2 beckons. WBA could be doing a Sunderland next season.
     
  34. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    What an utter burning of cash in terms of wages this was. We are short in midfield today and this guy isn’t deemed bench worthy? Horrific work from recruitment team.
     
  35. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Absolutely. Though I was surprised to read in a Sunderland newspaper last month that they're still picking up the tab for part of his wages.
     

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