Ngoyi, Granddi

2015-2015 (Leeds Player Details)(Player Details)

Defensive Midfield

Born: Melun, Paris, France: 17-05-1988

Debut: Norwich City (h): 14-04-2015

Height & Weight: 6ft 1ins 12st 1lb (2014)

Born in France of Congolese descent, Ngoyi was brought up in France and represented that country at Under-Nineteen and Under-Twenty-One level but has also been called up to the Congo full international squad, but has not, as yet, been chosen for a game at that level. Born at Melun, a suburb of Paris, the defensive midfielder joined Paris Saint-Germain at junior level and played for the club's "B" team in 2006-07, and made the first team in the following season of 2007-08. Despite the presence of Claude Makelele and Jeremy Clement in the defensive midfield positions, he still managed to make the starting eleven in five Ligue 1 games and three times came on as a substitute. He made his St-Germain debut as a half-time substitute for Youssuf Mulumbu in the 0-0 home draw with FC Sochaux-Montbeliard on the season's opening day, on 4th August 2007, making his starting debut in the eleventh game of the season at FC Valenciennes, on 20th October 2007 and played the full game. He also sat unused on the bench on eleven occasions in that season. He also took part in five Cup games. Before the start of the 2007-08 season he had been called up into the French Under-Nineteen for the 2007 European Under-Nineteen Championship in Austria. He made his debut on 16th July 2007 at the Keine Sorgen Arena at Ried im Innkreis in a 5-2 win over Serbia, in which he played a full game. He also played a full game two days later at the same venue in a 1-1 draw with Germany and then, three days later, he was a sixty-fifth minute substitute for Malaury Martin in a 0-0 draw with Russia at the Vorwarts Stadium in Steyr, as France progressed to the semi-finals where they were beaten 2-4 on penalties by Spain at the Waldstadion in Pasching on 24th July 2007, after the score had been 0-0 after extra-time, with Ngoyi playing the full two hours as he collected his fourth Under-Nineteen cap. He also scored France's first success from their second shot in the penalty shoot-out. The 2008-09 season saw him out of favour and he had sat unused on only one occasion in the Ligue 1 and had started just one UEFA Cup tie, at FC Schalke in a 3-1 defeat at the Veltins-Arena on 23rd October 2008, and halfway through the season, on 6th January 2009, he was loaned to Ligue 2 side, Clermont Foot Auvergne 63 for the rest of the season. He made his debut as a sixty-third minute replacement for Chafik Najih in a 2-0 home win over Stade Brest on 16th January 2009. he then played two further games as a substitute before getting his starting debut, with a full game, in a 1-2 home loss to RC Lens on 16th February 2009. He went on to complete sixteen starts, together with the three substitute appearances while on loan, and his first and only goal came in his final match, when he scored in the sixty-first minute of a 1-1 draw at OC Vannes on 29th May 2009. In October 2008 he was called up to represent the Democratic Republic of Congo, together with fellow Paris Saint- Germain team-mates Larrys Mabiala and Youssouf Mulumbu for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against rivals Malawi, to be played on 11th October 2008. He was not included in the final eighteen as the Congo were surprisingly beaten 1-2 by Malawi. The 2009-10 season saw him back at Saint-Germain, making sixteen starts and sixteen games from the bench but his twenty unused on the bench was where he spent the majority of the season in Ligue 1, but he also started one, came on as a substitute in one and was unused on the bench in one in the French Cup, but he also started twice in the French League Cup. He was also called up for the French Under-Twenty -One team. He made his debut on 12th August 2009 in a 2-2 home draw with Poland, when he came on as a half-time replacement for Etienne Capoue in a friendly. He then took part in two UEFA Under-Twenty-One Euro qualifiers, the first on 5th September 2009 in a 3-1 win over Slovenia at the Ob Jezeru City Stadium in Velenje, when he came on as a seventy-second minute substitute for Etienne Capoue, followed three days later by a 2-2 home draw at the Stade Jean -Laville in Gueugnon with Ukraine, when he was again a substitute, coming on for Djamel Bakar after sixty-three minutes. On 20th May 2010 he was a sixty-seventh minute for Mamadou Sakho in a 3-3 draw with Argentina in a friendly and his fifth and final cap saw him in the starting eleven in a 0-1 defeat by Belgium at the Stade de la Rabine in Vannes on 12th August 2010, when he played a full game. He went on loan to Stade Brest for the whole of the 2010-11 season, making his debut on the opening day of the season and playing a full game in a 0-2 defeat at FC Toulouse on 7th August 2010. He went on to start seveenteen and come on in another eight from the bench and remained unused in seven more in Ligue 1 games as well as two starts in the Coupe de France and a full game in the Coupe de la Ligue. He was back at Paris St-Germain for July and August and made two Europa League substitute appearances and two more substitute appearances in Ligue 1, but then went on loan to FC Nantes in September 2011, making his debut on 9th September 2011 in a 1-1 home draw with FC Le Mans, playing a full game. He scored his only goal for them when he gave them the lead after seven minutes in a 1-1 draw at home to ES Troyes AC on 2nd April 2012 and played his final game for them on 1st May 2012 when he started but was substituted at half-time by Papy Djilobodji. He started nineteen times and came on as a substitute once in Ligue 1 for FC Nantes. On 28th June 2012, he signed a three-year contract ES Troyes AC, who had just been promoted to Ligue 1. He made his debut for them in Ligue 1 on 11th August 2012 in the opening fixture against FC Valenciennes in a 0-1 home defeat. His only Ligue 1 goal came on 17th November 2012 when he opened the scoring after twenty minutes in a 3-3 draw at home to AS Nancy-Lorraine as he started twenty-nine and came off the bench twice in Ligue 1 and in the Coupe de la Ligue he scored in the twenty-third minute to equalise in a 1-2 loss at Stade Reims on 26th September 2012 in his only start in the competition but he did remain unused on the bench in another game, but he was unable to stop ES Troyes AC from being relegated. In November 2012 he was once more invited to join the Congo team for the friendly international with Burkina Faso in Morocco on 14th November 2012, but he declined the invitation. After Troyes relegation Ngoyi moved to Italian Serie B side Palermo on 7th August 2013 on a free transfer and a four year contact. He made his debut for his new club on the opening day of the season, 24th August 2013, when he came on as a substitute for Ignacio Lores in the seventy-fifth minute of a 1-1 draw at Modena FC. He made his starting debut in the next game, in a 1-2 home defeat by Empoli on 31st August, but did not get off to the best of starts, being booked in the nineteenth minute and again in the twenty-seventh which resulted in his being sent-off. He went on to start ten, come on from the bench in ten and remained unused on the bench in twenty games in Serie B as well as starting two games in the Coppa Italia, as Palermo gained promotion to Serie A as champions of Serie B. In the 2014-15 season he was unable to make the starting side, but had come on as a substitute in five games and sat unused on the bench in four of the first dozen games in Serie A, and once in the Coppa Italia, before he was sidelined with a leg injury and his last appearance was as a final minute substitute in a 1-1 draw at Genoa CFC on 24th November 2014. Ngoyi joined Leeds United on 26th January 2015 on loan until the end of the 2014-15 season, with an option for the club to sign him for £2million. No sooner had he arrived than he picked up an injury in training and it was not until the Easter Monday fixture at Molineux with Wolverhampton Wanderers on 6th April 2015 that he joined the Leeds match day squad. He sat unused on the bench in that game and the home game with Cardiff City on the following Saturday before being given his chance in central midfield in place of Kalvin Phillips. He started the home game with Norwich City on 14th April 2015 and played the full game in a 0-2 defeat. He was then unused on the bench for the next two away fixtures at Charlton Athletic and Sheffield Wednesday and the final home game of the season against Rotherham United. Leeds did not take up their option and he returned to Palermo at the end of the season.