Josh Onomah has actually put in performances comparable to most of Sissoko's on the rare starts he's had, and nobody called them outstanding or MOTM.
What did Sissoko actually do? careered forwards two or three times and did nothing, pissed away one of the best chances of the game, completed 23 fucking passes in 90 minutes (Winks made 22 in 24 minutes) - none of them incisive, whacked a ball out for a corner from the halfway line, miss controlled it a couple of times.
Jesus wept, how fucking low is the bar set ?
As others have said, the lad tries hard, never faulted his effort wherever he's been, he's an athletic unit who's good for a surge or two a game, but there's no intelligence or finesse to what happens next, and his positional sense is rudimentary at best and what he does without the ball is pretty agricultural too, it's not like he's Kante is it, cleverly reading danger and snuffing it out all over the place.
We've got academy players that are technically and tactically far more proficient than Sissoko as CM's. I think it's a fucking travesty that this happens when you give a manager too much say in transfers, and then has to try and justify it, because that money could and should have been spent much more efficiently by someone who's job it is to evaluate potential signings, or we should be seeing an academy player advanced, having had those minutes - and lets face it, if we stack up all Sissoko's performance minutes, even Onomah couldn't have been less inept than Sissoko's been for most of them - and at least by now we'd either have integrated a CM with some potential or be about 5-10m in the black from moving him on, not 10-20m down on a player who's been largely useless for two and a half years, who is nowhere near good enough for a team with our aspirations.
