From what I've been told this is spot on.
Something going on behind the scenes with Sissoko at the moment.
Also it is confirmed that he is our highest paid player, hence a lot of the other players demanding bigger pay.
The whole transfer has unsettled the Squad. Whoever sanctioned it needs sacking.
Agree, except that even if Levy did it (which I am sure he did), I would not want to sack Levy. Levy is quite simply too good at everything else not footballing related for us to get rid of him.
My thought on the tell as to why Levy purchased him and not Poch, is that Poch has always opted to play Sissoko out wide at RM/RW. I think this is a way that Poch has obliquely registered protest with Levy over Sissoko's purchase. I can easily see Poch telling Levy "we need a wide attacker with a physical presence" and Levy failing to figure it out properly early on and desperately signing Sissoko to fulfill that role, presenting him to Poch right at the deadline. Poch, probably not comfortable enough with his boss to tell him off, or maybe just glad he got anything at all with Levy's inept handling after Mitchell's departure, instead reluctantly accepts Sissoko, giving him the professional, perfunctory welcome as he would any other club signing.
However, since he specified he only wanted a wide attacker in the side, he is only willing to play Sissoko in that position and allows the unmatched-ness of the player to the position to speak for itself to Levy. Sissoko is not a wide-man and anybody who has watched him knows that. His performances for France out wide were highly atypical for him when judged against the rest of his prem starts. I think Poch's refusal to play Sissoko at CM is a nod to his belief that he already had his central midfield options settled, was not interested in adding to them at the transfer deadline, and is still not interested in playing Sissoko in that position even now.
I hope the club as a whole learns from this debacle and I hope that Levy is removed from participating directly in negotiations for top football talent. I don't think he is the man to land critical, high-price players on behalf of the club. He is the kind of guy you want running organizational operations for the club though, as his hard-bargaining style is perfect for practically any other realm of service.
As for Sissoko, he spoke out of turn on, as an earlier commenter astutely pointed out, the issue of club talent and playing at Wembley- a subject too important to the club for any single player to appropriately speak out on. His place is the side seems like it will be success as a wide-man or bust, and he is clearly at least 2nd or 3rd on the depth chart out wide behind Son and Lamela. Hopefully he can just settle down, train hard, and focus his mind towards effective performance in a wide attacking position. If he can't succeed out wide though, I think Levy just lost the club a ton of money.