cameroonian football player

Clinton Mua N’Jie ( hold 15 August 1993 ) is a cameroonian professional football player who plays for Dynamo Moscow in the russian Premier League and the Cameroon national team. He is known for his pace and drivel skills. He started his career with Lyon, going up all the way from the youth program to the B team and ultimately in the club ‘s lead tier team in the french Ligue 1, before moving to Tottenham Hotspur of the Premier League, and then back to Ligue 1 side Marseille before moving to his current club.

N’Jie made his senior external introduction for Cameroon in 2014 and represented the state at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015, 2017 and 2019, winning the 2017 tournament .

Club career [edit ]

lyon [edit ]

N’Jie arrived at Lyon during the summer of 2011. He joined the under-19 police squad and quickly progressed to the allow police squad along with Anthony Martial and Nabil Fekir, playing in the french 4th part. He played his first master match during the 2012–13 season against Stade de Reims in a 3–0 acquire. [ 2 ] N’Jie scored his first professional finish against Mladá Boleslav in the third qualifying round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, helping his team to a 2–1 victory. [ 3 ] On 13 August, he scored his beginning Ligue 1 finish in a 4–0 victory against Lorient. [ 4 ] Earlier that day, he signed a three-year contract reference with Lyon through to 2019. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Having been shortlisted for the 2014 CAF Most Promising Talent of the Year, [ 6 ] N’Jie lost out to Porto and Algeria midfielder Yacine Brahimi. [ 7 ] He finished his first full season at Lyon with eight goals and seven assists in 33 appearances, [ 8 ] despite only starting one-half of his 30 league games, [ 9 ] as he was the third base piece of the Lyon attacking trace, with Nabil Fekir and Alexandre Lacazette. N’Jie besides finished the season with a 73 % shot-on-target ratio, moment to only to Paris Saint-Germain ‘s Zlatan Ibrahimović, who ended the campaign on 74 %. [ 10 ]

Tottenham Hotspur [edit ]

On 15 August 2015, English side Tottenham Hotspur announced that the club had reached an agreement for the sign of N’Jie from Lyon, subject to external clearance and a solve permit. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] N’Jie agreed to a five-year contract with a reported transfer fee of €12 million ( £8.3 million ). N’Jie made his Spurs introduction on 17 September in a Europa League group stage match against Qarabağ, coming on as a alternate for Andros Townsend. On 10 December 2015, he tore his median collateral ligament ( MCL ) after a challenge by Jérémy Toulalan during a Europa League group phase equal against Monaco. He had to undergo knee operation for the MCL tear and was expected to out of action for at least 1–2 months, and possibly longer. [ 13 ] Working with injure teammate Jan Vertonghen during his recovery, [ 14 ] N’Jie finally made his fall on 8 May 2016 in a Premier League meet against Southampton, in what would be his concluding appearance of the season. [ 15 ] N’Jie made 8 appearances ( all of them as a alternate ) for Tottenham in the Premier League, his longest a 79-minute matter when he replaced the hurt Nacer Chadli against Liverpool. [ 16 ] In summation, N’Jie made 5 appearances, starting in 2 of them, in Tottenham ‘s Europa League campaign, and did not score a goal in all competitions .

Marseille [edit ]

N’Jie with Marseille in 2018 On 31 August 2016, N’Jie returned to Ligue 1, joining Marseille on a season-long lend share. [ 17 ] Marseille had a €7 million choice to buy him at the end of the loan, and Georges-Kévin Nkoudou headed to White Hart Lane on a permanent wave move in the reverse direction. [ 18 ] On 11 September, he made his introduction as a substitute for William Vainqueur in the 68th hour away to Nice, and he scored his first finish two weeks subsequently to equalise in a 2–1 home succeed against Nantes. [ 19 ] On 16 July 2017, N’Jie made his move to Marseille permanent, signing for an undisclosed fee. [ 20 ] On 6 August, in the season opener against Dijon, he came on at half time for injured captain Dimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 succeed. [ 21 ] On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens. [ 22 ] On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseille played out a 2–1 away personnel casualty but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a set in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. [ 23 ]

Dynamo Moscow [edit ]

On 25 July 2019, Njie signed a four-year sign with russian Premier League clubhouse Dynamo Moscow. [ 24 ] He scored his first goal for Dynamo on 27 October 2019, a late winner in a 1–0 victory over PFC CSKA Moscow. [ 25 ]

International career [edit ]

N’Jie with Cameroon in 2015 N’Jie scored 44 minutes into his cameroon introduction against the democratic Republic of Congo on 6 September 2014, [ 5 ] [ 9 ] and followed this up four days late by scoring twice in a 4–1 victory over Ivory Coast at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon. [ 5 ] He was named in the squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations [ 26 ] and played in one group stage match, coming on as a 67th-minute stand-in in a 1–0 loss to Ivory Coast. [ 27 ] He won the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

stylus of dally [edit ]

N’Jie is a pacy forward [ 10 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] who likes to play on the shoulder of the last defender, [ 10 ] just off the front man. [ 30 ] He can besides play off the wing, [ 9 ] [ 28 ] and as drivel is a samara impute of his bet on, [ 30 ] he likes to take on players when given the find. [ 10 ] He frequently draws comparisons to Cameroon ‘s all-time go scorer and compatriot Samuel Eto’o, [ 10 ] [ 28 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] with this comparison being asserted by Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas. [ 29 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 12 December 2021[32][33]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Lyon 2012–13 Ligue 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
2013–14 3 0 0 0 0 0 3[a] 0 6 0
2014–15 30 7 1 0 0 0 2[a] 1 33 8
Total 37 7 1 0 0 0 5 1 43 8
Tottenham Hotspur 2015–16 Premier League 8 0 0 0 1 0 5[a] 0 14 0
Marseille (loan) 2016–17 Ligue 1 22 4 1 0 0 0 23 4
Marseille 2017–18 Ligue 1 22 7 3 1 1 0 13[a] 1 39 9
2018–19 17 3 0 0 1 0 3[a] 0 21 3
Total 61 14 4 1 2 0 16 1 83 16
Dynamo Moscow 2019–20 Russian Premier League 19 1 0 0 19 1
2020–21 23 4 1 0 1 0 25 4
2021–22 13 0 2 0 15 0
Total 55 5 3 0 0 0 1 0 59 5
Career total 161 26 8 1 3 0 27 2 199 29

International [edit ]

As of match played 30 March 2021.[34]
Cameroon
Year Apps Goals
2014 6 3
2015 8 3
2016 2 0
2017 6 1
2018 4 0
2019 6 2
2020 2 1
2021 2 0
Total 36 10

International goals [edit ]

Score and result list Cameroon’s goal tally first.[33]

Honours [edit ]

club [edit ]

Lyon
Marseille

International [edit ]

Cameroon

References [edit ]