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Don't mind him in a 433, West Ham is probably around the right level for him to play against as well.......it becomes more about physicality in a lot of games against them.
Add to that Leicester away when we pumped them - playing at Right Back!
One of the most stupidest posts on here for a while
“Anyone can have a few good or very good games “
No they can’t especially at the Euros
And what do Newcastle know about running a good football club currently languishing at the bottom?
Genuine class from him yesterday with that pinpoint cross to Coco’s head after selling their FB a dummy
Highlight of the game for me!
More importantly how do we know that you’re not fat?
Like Poch said in the press conference after, you can't ask him to do the same things as the other players. We all know he has serious technical limitations but he is a great athlete, against West Ham he used his pace and power to help carry the ball forward and defend when needed. His assist was one in a million for him but his all around performance had a good level of intensity.
The thing he needs to improve is his aggression, for me he is still a softie. There was a moment against West Ham where he was defending a lofted ball in our corner and pussied out, letting Anderson get behind him and cross from the byline. Not dissimilar to what he did at the end of the Barca game where he was in the RB position and let a ball go limply over his head leading to a cutback and killer 4th goal. Someone as strong as him should be bullying people and winning that type of ball with ease. Hopefully he will keep working hard and improve that aspect of his game, if he can then maybe he can take Wanyama's place in the pecking order.
The thing he needs to improve is his aggression, for me he is still a softie. There was a moment against West Ham where he was defending a lofted ball in our corner and pussied out, letting Anderson get behind him and cross from the byline. Not dissimilar to what he did at the end of the Barca game where he was in the RB position and let a ball go limply over his head leading to a cutback and killer 4th goal. Someone as strong as him should be bullying people and winning that type of ball with ease. Hopefully he will keep working hard and improve that aspect of his game, if he can then maybe he can take Wanyama's place in the pecking order.
Nailed it mate!
Physically he’s got the lot so Poch should be making him a beast in the midfield
He didn't even have good games at the Euro's, he had a couple of good runs that ended in fuck all. Most people in France, rightly, wanted Deschamps sacked after that Euros, for the ultra negative crap they played and the idiotic squad and team selections he made, Sissoko being a major one of those.
Fuck me that was a short post for you
Are you ok?
Did Stan get that clippy in the end or was his bus late?
Or we could see if the Central Coast Mariners will swap him for Usain Bolt?
Most people in France, rightly wanted Deschamps sacked? He won them the World Cup two years later! How is it right they wanted him sacked?
That has absolutely nothing to do with Sissoko. He is a defensive coach regardless of who he picks to play, the whole World knows he's one of the most conservative managers out there.
Many in France could not understand some of the squad and team selections he made at the Euros, Sissoko particularly when he had better options.
Show me examples of these people in France specificlly calling out Sissoko please. The many were critisising the Coach, yes, because he's boring and negative, but you are going to need to back up the claims that their displeasure was at Sissoko.
You are a Daily Mail reporter and I claim my five pounds ... classic fake news, using the un-evidenced "many" as some kind of justification for a pure fabrication ...
BangkokSpud
Here is just one typical example of stuff said - and there was loads more in the French media that was much more scathing (as anyone with half a brain could imagine - just like in the UK when England fuck up) - but also vocally by many French pundits (if you want English speaking ones just go back and listen to what pundits like Philipe Auclair and Julian Laurens were saying):
Delaney: Deschamps must take French blame
SAINT-DENIS, France -- After one of the biggest disappointments in French football history, a clearly deflated Didier Deschamps tried to put it down to "tiny details."
"It was a close match," the France manager said after his side's 1-0 defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final. "We had chances, as did the Portuguese, but unfortunately they scored."
Or, more specifically, Eder scored. Fernando Santos's decision to bring the striker on initially raised eyebrows, only for the player to then raise the roof with his 109th-minute long-range strike.
It only reflected better on the Portuguese manager that Eder was supplied by another sub in Joao Moutinho. That in turn reflected badly on Deschamps. Santos' subs did not just win this game; they also highlighted just how poor the French manager's own decisions were.
Deschamps' attempts to put the defeat down to "tiny details" was understandable, but the reality was that France lost because he himself got too much wrong. That is what it boils down to.
There is a lot of blame to go around with the hosts, but more must be placed at Deschamps's feet than anyone else. He admitted afterwards that France "threw away a great chance to be European champions" but it looks even worse when you properly lay out why it was such a great opportunity.
France had the fortune to play a final in their home stadium against a less talented team, whose biggest star had to go off after just 25 minutes.
Everything was going the hosts' way, but Deschamps got almost nothing right. He squandered it all, in a piece of mismanagement to rival Marc Wilmots's poor work with Belgium.
It was not just that Deschamps failed to maximise those ample advantages. It was really about how much his decisions actually minimised the effectiveness of his players. He made such talent look less than the sum of their parts.
A distinctive feature of France's entire tournament has been Deschamps getting his starting lineups wrong, only to fix it halfway through to see his side through. It happened in four of their six matches before the final, but was most notable in the round-of-16 game against Ireland, when he finally moved Antoine Griezmann into the centre.
That initially seemed a sign of Deschamps's impressively proactive approach, and decisiveness, his willingness to make necessary changes. Instead, it now just looks more like he was getting lucky, and never had a clear idea. He clearly couldn't fix his problems when it mattered most. He had run out of ideas.
The most damning thing was so much of what could be fixed seemed obvious. From the start of the tournament, it has been clear that Deschamps was struggling to find a balance in midfield given the type of players available to him. He still persisted, however, with some hugely puzzling configurations that were proven to not work in previous games.
The final, illustrated that most; it seemed as if the midfield trio was set up to get the best out of the worst player in it, while also subduing the performances of the better ones.
This is not to say that Moussa Sissoko is not a quality player, but he clearly hasn't had the career or talent of Blaise Matuidi or -- especially -- Paul Pogba. While those two toiled, however, it was Sissoko who was released to express himself.
That is utterly bizarre when you just stop and think about Pogba's best qualities. The 23-year-old has been widely criticised for not doing more with his ability throughout the tournament, but Deschamps should take the blame for it, rather than the player himself.
Pogba was only rarely used in the role best suited to him, when he could get forward and fully utilise that awesome power and inventive range of passing and shooting. We saw some of it in the second half of the semifinal against Germany, after N'Golo Kante had been brought on.........
This was just an easy to google - English language example - if you want to google L'Equipe and get through their sign in process - be my guest. Or try other French media.
Or go back and listen to pods where Philipe Auclair or Julian Laurens where expressing their incredulity that a player as technically challenged was getting picked ahead of people like Coman in the Euros and getting into squads ahead of people like Dembele, Fekir (at that time), Lacazette (who could also play AM) etc.
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BangkokSpud
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Euro 2016 : les coéquipiers de Moussa Sissoko l'appellent "le fils du coach"
This isn't a hatchet job or an article being critical per se of Sissoko, but even in this article the question is asked by the journo:
"Le profil Deschamps". Mais pourquoi Moussa Sissoko plaît-il tant à Didier Deschamps là où de nombreux observateurs ne l'auraient même pas mis dans la liste
Why is Sissoko picked (for the Euro 16 squad) when he wouldn't even make most people's squad? And he jokes that some players say he must be the son of Deschamps to be making the squad.
Now imagine what more critical media were saying and most general punters in France - just like most Spurs fans are saying.
So now you're using the click-bait French media to support your click-bait views ... a whole new level of trolling ... the media is not the public ... "Spurs fans boycott Milton Keynes" "Spurs are facing a Season Ticket holder revolt" "Tottenham's new stadium may need sections tearing down" "Pochettino set for Real Madrid" ..... all very quotable media headlines, all utter shite ...
No player / manager / club ever has 100% support ... we can all find negatives ... you just find then 100% of the time, and when you can't find them you make them up ... as I said trolling at a whole new level ....
No player / manager / club ever has 100% support ... we can all find negatives ... you just find then 100% of the time, and when you can't find them you make them up ... as I said trolling at a whole new level ....