Franck Haise unsure of Tanguy Ndombélé’s return date | OneFootball

After undergoing surgery on a sports hernia issue, there is not yet a return date for OGC Nice’s Tanguy Ndombélé (28).

Nice confirmed at the start of July that the Frenchman had undergone surgery on the problem. It is a problem that saw him sidelined for almost the entirety of the second half of the season. In January, the former Tottenham Hotspur revealed that he had been struggling with a sports hernia issue. Those problems continued and worsened over the second half of the season. He went from a peripheral figure to off the radar entirely. His last appearance in Ligue 1 dates back to the end of February.

As reported by Get French Football News, the player was reticent to undergo surgery, Ndombélé was reticent to undergo surgery. Speaking to L’Équipe, Franck Haise has confirmed this. “He has had surgery and that is good. I regret that it happened so late because I would have preferred for him to do pre-season with us. It was his choice [not to undergo surgery]. That’s how it is,” said the Nice manager.

Haise could not put a date on Ndombélé’s return. “I am just waiting for one thing: to see when the doctor and Benoît (Delaval, head of performance) say that he can train intensely with the squad. I don’t know if that will be October, November, December, in January…,” he said.

GFFN | Luke Entwistle