SURPLUS FOUR BANNED FROM SPURS TRAINING

NDOMBELE, LO CELSO, WINKS AND REGUILON EXILED BUT PERMANENT BUYERS ARE HARDLY QUEUING UP

- Dan Kilpatrick

UNWANTED Tottenham players Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Sergio Reguilon and Harry Winks have been banished from the first team and are training individually, as the club continues to look for buyers before the end of the month.

The quartet have been working alone and at separate times from the rest of the squad since the club returned from their pre-season tour of South Korea, having been told that head coach Antonio Conte can only work with a certain number of players.

Spurs are trying to offload the quartet, but there is an acceptance that their futures are unlikely to be resolved until the final week of the transfer window and likely on deadline day.

Ndombele and Lo Celso the club's record signings until this summer - are attracting interest from Villarreal, where the latter spent the second half of last season on loan, but Spurs are yet to receive a bid for either midfielder.