Daniel Levy set for Tottenham transfer repeat as Ange Postecoglou plots summer plans

The start of July will mark five years since Tanguy Ndombele sealed a big-money move to Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham side. Excelling for Lyon in Ligue 1 and the Champions League, the midfielder was seen as a player who could help take Spurs up another level after reaching the final of Europe's premier competition a month earlier.

Very much viewed as one for the long-term at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Frenchman penned a six-year contract in N17. This July will see Ndombele enter the final year of his Tottenham deal.

Showing glimpses of his quality on a few occasions, the 27-year-old's Spurs transfer has been an undoubted failure, especially given the eye-watering fee of around £60million that they paid Lyon for his services. Ndombele has had ample chances to salvage his Tottenham career but he has never grasped them with both hands.

That explains why he has spent the past two-and-a-half seasons away from the club on loan. Again given opportunities to impress and get his career back on track, Ndombele once again faces a crucial summer in his career with current club Galatasaray extremely unlikely to activate the €15m (£12.8m) purchase option in their loan agreement with Tottenham.

Ndombele has just not done enough to justify a permanent move to the Turkish giants, so far playing 661 minutes across 26 games for the club following his loan switch. Nineteen of those appearances have come in the Super Lig, with only four of them from the start and the player only managing to play the full 90 minutes on two occasions.

It just shows how far his stock has fallen over the past few years and it leaves Daniel Levy and Johan Lange with quite the predicament on their hands ahead of a pivotal summer for the club. If indeed Ndombele