Lo Celso curse, Ndombele rise, Troy Parrott goals - How 16 ex-Tottenham stars are faring

The rebuild at Tottenham Hotspur in 2024 has been a major one with 16 players leaving the club over the past 12 months and it's time to check in on how they're getting on.

Ange Postecoglou has overhauled his Tottenham squad and it has been one of the largest turnover of players in Spur ' recent history with many long-serving members of the first team leaving, while the club's U21s development squad have also had some notable exits in the past 12 months.

football.london has taken a glance across England, Europe and also America to catch up on exactly how all of the former Tottenham first team players and a couple of notable U21s have got on since stepping through the exit door on a permanent basis in 2024.

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Giovani Lo Celso

The Tottenham hamstring curse reaches far and wide and as the most recent player to leave Spurs, Lo Celso has not escaped it.

He missed much of October and six games with a hamstring problem and that paused some fantastic form on his return Real Betis. The Argentine enjoyed his own Brennan Johnson-like run with goals in four consecutive La Liga games - five scored in total across those games - and he returned with an assist in his first game back after his injury, in the 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo.

The 28-year-old exited Tottenham after five years in a deadline day transfer that will net the club £8.4million plus add-ons with a sell-on clause as well as an agreement to sign midfielder Johnny Cardoso for a cheaper fee in the future or get a sell-on fee of sorts for the 23-year-old USA international.

Troy Parrott

Troy Parrott has continued to show his shooting boots in the Netherlands since he joined AZ Alkmaar in July in a £6.7million deal which also includes a 20% sell-on clause for the north London side.

The 22-year-old Republic of Ireland international has started every single game up front for his new club. AZ have been rewarded with eight goals and two assists in his 16 matches so far in the Eredivisie and Europa League. Four of those goals came in a huge 9-1 victory against Heerenveen and his Europa League goal was the winning one from the spot against Elfsborg.

Parrott has played a lot of football for the Dutch side with 1279 minutes of action across those 16 matches and one of them brought a reunion with Spurs as Alkmaar travelled to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last month on October 24 and lost 1-0 in the European game.

The young Irishman spoke ahead of that game about his time in the Netherlands, after a successful loan at Excelsior Rotterdam last season.

"There is something about the air over here. I don't know, it is like a feeling. I just enjoy it. If you asked me two or three years ago where I would be now, I would have never said here. That is something that kind of excites me. I am getting to live in new places," he said.

"It is just about experiencing new things. There are not many people that do it. So, to try something new, it is exciting for me. It is a short life that we have. And I am not even just talking football now. It is something you cannot get back. To be living that, it is nice."

On whether he had regrets in leaving Tottenham, he responded: "No, I don't think I have any regrets. I am grateful for how the club treated me, helping me to grow up as a person and a player. I can't really look back. This is the position I always wanted to be in, playing professional football. I understand that I am on my own journey.

"Those expectations are hard for any young player. I'm speaking like I am old, I'm still young now! It is just the experience I had, being out on all the loans and stuff, is more than what I should have at this age. But it is something a lot of young players go through. I believe for me I've learned to just put that to the side. It does more harm than it does good. Just to block all that out. I am happy now, being able to showcase what I can do week in and week out at a big team playing in Europe. It is what I wanted when I moved here."

Tanguy Ndombele

Tanguy Ndombele went down as Tottenham's biggest ever flop after arriving from Lyon for a club record fee and playing just 91 times over half a decade before having his contract mutually terminated in the summer.

He then joined Nice and after years of misstarts and loan spells without much playing time, the 27-year-old is finally getting minutes under his belt again, albeit around a troublesome hip injury that kept him out for a run of games last month.

Ndombele has played 703 minutes across 11 matches with a goal and an assist and has earned plaudits along the way for his performances under new Nice boss Franck Haise. He has started seven of the eight Ligue 1 games he's been available for with the one substitute appearance in the league coming after his return from that hip injury. In the draw against PSG last month, Ndombele was named man of the match across the board by the media.

"He is someone who needs – and he isn't the only one – a climate of trust and that is what we are trying to bring to him," said Haise. "But beyond the atmosphere around the club that has been put in place, it is Tanguy first and foremost who is ensuring that it is going well."

He added: "Little by little, we are re-discovering the player that we knew a few years ago. What I see from his matches, I think in terms of confidence, it is going pretty well. Confidence comes from working hard, through your investment."

Oliver Skipp

Oliver Skipp has found himself unused on the bench at Leicester City for the past three matches but on the whole he's mostly been picking up the minutes for the Foxes.

The 24-year-old left Spurs this summer after 18 years at the club and more than 100 first team appearances to his name to join up with fellow academy product Harry Winks at Leicester City. The transfer will bring the club more than £20million plus a sell-on clause.

Skipp has played 565 minutes across nine appearances in the Premier League and Carabao Cup since making the move to the King Power Stadium.

Emerson Royal

It wasn't the best start in Italy for Emerson Royal, who moved to AC Milan this summer in a deal worth £12.6million plus add-ons and has played 13 times for the Serie A side.

Italian football expert James Horncastle initially went in hard on the 25-year-old when he said: "Milan keep conceding the same goal too, down Emerson Royal’s side. His €15million signing from Tottenham Hotspur looks like the biggest donation in the history of Fondazione Milan as the club charitably tries to make his wish to become a footballer come true."

The Brazilian has started all but one game since with Milan winning the bulk of them with him at right-back and he has improved, although the club's fans appear yet to be convinced by the former Tottenham man, particularly with the player he replaced, Pierre Kalulu, impressing at Juventus.

Ryan Sessegnon

Ryan Sessegnon has been slowly working his way back to full fitness after so long out of the game and Fulham have been playing it cautiously with him. He hasn't played in the Premier League this season yet but has been on the bench for six of the 11 games in the competition.

The 24-year-old has got two 90 minute-stints under his belt in Fulham's Carabao Cup games, getting an assist in the third round at Preston before a penalty shoot-out defeat, scoring twice during that shoot-out including his team's penultimate penalty. His appearance against Birmingham in the previous round was the first time the left-back had started a match since January 2023, before the hamstring problems really began to take hold. With operations on both legs, Sessegnon will be hoping for more fortune in his career from now on.

Spurs decided not to take up the option of the additional year on Sessegnon's contract in the summer and his return to Fulham meant that all of Tottenham's arrivals in the 2019 window went back to their previous side at some point after joining the north London club.

Joe Rodon

Joe Rodon has carried on where he left off with Leeds on loan last season and he's played all but four minutes of their campaign so far as they try to earn promotion back to the Premier League at the second time of asking.

The Wales international, now 27, moved to the Elland Road club permanently as part of the deal that brought Archie Gray in the opposite direction to N17 this summer and he has a Tottenham team-mate to look after after Manor Solomon joined up on loan in August for the campaign ahead.

Leeds sit third in the table and Rodon has played 16 games for them so far in all competitions.

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg

We're including Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg even though he's on loan at Marseille as he technically joined the Ligue 1 outfit with an obligation to buy.

Like Rodon, the 29-year-old midfielder has played all but four minutes of his side's season and he captained the French side three times this season, having also been named as the new skipper of Denmark, taking on the armband from Simon Kjaer ahead of previous vice-captains Christian Eriksen and Kasper Schmeichel.

Hojbjerg scored against Montpellier and against Strasbourg had to play as a centre-back due to injuries for Roberto De Zerbi's Ligue 1 side. Back-to-back home defeats to PSG and Auxerre, combined with a draw to Angers in the previous home game have brought some disgruntlement among fans despite Marseille's third place position in the table.

Japhet Tanganga

Japhet Tanganga has played every minute for Millwall in the Championship that he's been available for after missing the first couple of games through suspension.

He's played in 13 games and scored the winning goal against Rodon's Leeds this month, just before the international break and Millwall sit eighth in the table.

As with Sessegnon, Spurs did not take up the option to extend Tanganga's contract by its final year. Instead the 25-year-old signed on a free transfer for Millwall after impressing for the Championship side on loan last season.

Ivan Perisic

Ivan Perisic stopped being a Tottenham employee this summer, having already joined Hajduk Split in January on loan until the end of his contract and he agreed a deal to then play for the Croatian side this season. However, the arrival of Gennaro Gattuso altered the outlook on his future at the club and the 35-year-old's contract was mutually terminated.

He is now trying out yet another new league in his career after moving to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. There he has made six appearances and contributed one goal and one assist, his goal coming in the top of the table clash against Ajax.

Perisic has a one-year contract for the Eredivisie leaders, but will miss out on Champions League football in the league phase at least after signing after the registration period closed.

Eric Dier

Dier has had to make do with minutes here and there this season under Vincent Kompany. He's played just 43 minutes across four substitute appearances in the Bundesliga, 21 in one cameo from the bench in the Champions League and had one start in the German Cup.

The 30-year-old joined Harry Kane at Bayern Munich on loan earlier this year with an option for the Bundesliga club to sign him permanently, which was triggered before last season ended and he moved officially when his contract ended this summer.

Jude Soonsup-Bell

Jude Soonsup-Bell has had to be patient since moving to Spanish second division side Cordoba in a deal that came with no fee but a 40% sell-on clause instead.

The 20-year-old has made five appearances in La Liga 2, all from the bench and totalling 43 minutes. However, he grabbed his first goal for the club in a Copa Del Rey defeat in lower league side UE Olot, coming off before Cordoba lost on penalties.

Soonsup-Bell had a great season before leaving Spurs U21s and helped them to the Premier League 2 title and play-off trophy. However, a first team breakthrough wasn't on the cards in north London and the 20-year-old instead departed for the move to Spain.

Yago Santiago

Another former Spurs player now in the Spanish second tier is Yago Santiago and he's been getting more game time with Elche and has responded with creative displays.

The 21-year-old Spanish winger left the north London club after half a decade and has picked up three assists in his past five matches in La Liga 2.

Nile John

Nile John, one of Soonsup-Bell and Santiago's former Spurs U21s team-mates, is in Portugal having joined second tier side Feirense after eight years and two first team appearances for the north London side.

The 21-year-old midfielder has played in six games in the league and has mostly found himself playing a role from the bench in recent months.

Charlie Sayers

Sayers left Tottenham in the summer and signed for Scottish Championship side Partick Thistle. The 20-year-old defender joined Spurs from Southend in 2021 and was involved in the first team pre-season tour to South Korea two years ago. However, an eye injury and further injury woes interrupted his progress and he was released by the club this summer.

Sayers has so far made one nine-minute league appearance for his new club, among a long string of unused substitute roles but did play the full 90 minutes in the third round of the Scottish Challenge Cup as Thistle lost 3-1 at Alloa.

Hugo Lloris

Tottenham's former captain left in January for a new adventure in MLS with LAFC after 11 years in north London and has already won silverware.

The 37-year-old World Cup winner has played 45 times for the Los Angeles side across league and cup matches, keeping 18 clean sheets and conceding 50 goals in the other games.

Lloris lifted the US Open Cup In October after LAFC's extra-time win against Kansas City as the Frenchman added another trophy to his CV and the goalkeeper made headlines in recent weeks with the release of his autobiography.

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