A new pitchoun on the start?
Freshly beaten by FC Nantes, Toulouse FC continues to occupy the transfer window section. Indeed, after having recruited Thijs Dallinga, Zakaria Aboukhlal or even Oliver Zandén in the pure spirit of scouting and the data instilled by President Damien Comolli, the violets could soon lose a new pitchoun, thus confirming the total change in development.
Indeed, after losing Amine Adli (Bayer Leverkusen), Janis Antiste (La Spezia), Bafodé Diakité (LOSC) or even Manu Koné (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Toulouse could this time lose Nathan N’goumou.
Data, the new fad
The recruitment cells of professional football clubs have always known how to adapt and live with the times. Thus, for a few years now, the analyzes of data and therefore of “potential performances” have been increasingly present in modern football.
Thus, while in England, Brentford and Liverpool are the forerunners of this new large-scale recruitment strategy, in France it is Téfécé that is importing this strategy. An effective strategy since the TFC recruits players unknown to the general public, but players who explode like Branco Van Den Boomen. In addition, this same strategy allowed Toulouse to win Ligue 2 and make a very good start to the season in Ligue 1.
The flip side
However, this strategy comes at a cost. Beyond being a short-term strategy, it is developed without the knowledge of the training center and, while the young people of Toulouse have often and regularly had the opportunity to show themselves in the first team, things have ended up changing a lot and it is now much more complicated to make your place in pro.
And that, the young Nathan N’Goumou understood it well. Present at the club since 2005, the native of Toulouse was initially content to play a few matches with the pro team, his very good performances earned him to play 32 Ligue 2 matches last season.
However, since the start of the season, the young right winger has only played one game and things don’t seem to be going well.
Nathan N’Goumou could thus join the former pitchoun Manu Koné on the side of M’gladbach. Currently no offers have been made but there is no doubt that things are supposed to settle very soon.
Our Violets suffer their first defeat of the season against Nantes.
You will have to get up quickly, to be #StillStanding from Wednesday against @PSG_inside ????
3-1 #FCNTFC pic.twitter.com/Om96AdrPbz
— Toulouse FC (@ToulouseFC) August 28, 2022