You can’t absolve Sissoko, you say "he's been great for us" but definitely not my definition of great. He's done his best, that's not the same.
To be fair to me i did say:
But we are in an awful circumstance this season and he has been great for us.
That is qualifying the point about his performances within the confines of the clubs constraints. Point being, relative to what he has to offer performance wise he is performing brilliantly...on the relative Sissoko scale. From an absolute persepective, which is the corner you are arguing, it is not enough. I not only concede that I wholeheartedly agree with it. But taht doesn't take us away from the reality of not having Modric and NDombele backed up by Busquets as an option on the team sheet. And in their inexplicable absence Moussa is doing a good job. To the point that his absence would be felt far more than most.
responsibility is squarely Pochettinos for not identifying our weaknesses and dealing with them in 4 years and each year it's become worse and has gone from an ailment, to the transplant donor list to almost deceased. We are actively now bypassing it for chunks of games.
If he had the financial ability to actually buy players and he didn't they yes he shoulders this.
When everyone was sucking each off at the start of the season, there were a couple of us saying that we are drastically outscoring our performances (and performance metrics), and over a season that's hard to do, it's starting to catch us up now.
I have never, ever, sucked one of these rotten forum cunts off. How very dare you BC. I leave that up to
RESPECT THE COCK
Nope, wasn't on board with any performance this year. folks went crazy when we beat ManU up at OT but the performance was a shite and labored as any other. I, amongst others, said so and you get the same folks saying the same shit "can't yo be happy blah blah blah" when you point out the obvious. Things changed when Poch said the same shit. We have been garbage and yes it is mostly to do with no MF. FB situation is not helping anyone either.
And most inferential stats in footie are garbage and too young to really be relied upon. I prefer my eyes as they are older and I trust them more. You have non-football players determining whether a shot should be scored or not. So the stats folk don't understand football and football folks don't understand the stats. but if, as you say, there was agreement between the stats and the performances then that's more convincing.
We've now lost 9 games. That's the most we've lost since Poch's first season.
I take it that is not a good thing? But if you think about it we have only drawn 1 so every cloud...
People keep saying we're bottling things,
Unfortunately, Yup! That is the salient point out of all of this. This is about what i expected and haven't understood how we were in the position we were considering the team and performances. I mentioned in PM that I was hoping we went out of CL because I wanted to cement 3rd and maybe there was a chance of picking off Pool and City. Folks are gonna be up in arms about that but the BVB tie was bittersweet. We had the sweet and now we are sucking on the bitter. And considering the sweet can only be so sweet this year as we are not going to win the league and really unlikely to win CL things can't get much sweeter but they can get a hell of a lot more bitter.