MOUSSA £54m misfit won’t

MOUSSA SISSOKO has backed ‘little brother’ Tanguy Ndombele to come good at Tottenham after a tricky start – just like he did.

Ndombele, 23, has had a rough year in North London following his club-record £54million switch from Lyon last summer.

He struggled for form under Mauricio Pochettino, has been publicly rebuked by Jose Mourinho and was also in the news for an alleged flouting of the coronavirus lockdown rules with a meeting with his manager in April.

Ndombele hasn’t featured for Spurs since the restart and last week Mourinho was forced to play down reports of a bust-up between the pair over the player’s fitness.

So there is no wonder question marks remain over Ndombele’s future beyond this season.

Sissoko knows what it’s like to struggle at Spurs, though, having failed to settle in right away following his switch from Newcastle in 2016. But since things clicked he hasn’t looked back. And he now hopes that the same will be true for

Ndombele. Sissoko said: “Tanguy’s first season has not been easy for a lot of reasons.

“I don’t want to speak about those but I spoke with him nearly every day.

“I play with him in the national team so I know him very well. “And have I told him just to stay calm, be patient, keep working every day and his time will come. “Maybe because I am like his big brother, I am a good example, because nothing was easy for me at the beginning.

“But I didn’t say much, I was just working very hard at training and things changed.

“We all believe in his quality and now he has come to another country, another culture, another style of football, another league, he doesn’t speak the language, so there are a lot of things. “He is still very