He struggles with those ones.
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He struggles with those ones.
If you say so bud
I do say so!
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Well, that's exactly my point, we're forced to use him because all our good options are gone and we've hardly replaced them.
We should get rid of him and try again. Rather than just settling for him because our transfer business over the last few years have been wank.
I get your point but my point is I would definitely keep him for a 25 man Premier League squad
Definitely missing his namesake, Mr Dembele, who I don't think has been adequately replaced.
What’s funny is that Sissoko’s “backers” here don’t consider him to be particularly great overall, and in fact acknowledge his obvious limitations.
He’s the worlds biggest football scammer to have pulled the wool eyes over the eyes of Rafa Benitez, Didier Deschamps, Mauricio Pochettino and Jose Mourinho(surely one of these guys would have sussed him out and rumbled him), not to mention how respected he seems to be by several teammates and opponents.
sometimes even if a player isn’t your ideal aesthetically or stylistically, you have to acknowledge their ability to win over coaches. I see Sissoko in much the same vein that I see Ben Davies. They still both have something to offer this squad.
He’s the worlds biggest football scammer to have pulled the wool eyes over the eyes of Rafa Benitez, Didier Deschamps, Mauricio Pochettino and Jose Mourinho(surely one of these guys would have sussed him out and rumbled him), not to mention how respected he seems to be by several teammates and opponents.
sometimes even if a player isn’t your ideal aesthetically or stylistically, you have to acknowledge their ability to win over coaches. I see Sissoko in much the same vein that I see Ben Davies. They still both have something to offer this squad.
I've oftened wondered if he was going to be Jose's "fall guy".
In the documentary when Jose is told that Sissoko is the most popular in the dressing room, his response was "Fuck" ( or similar).
Obviously Sissoko's application, commitment, desire and dedication won Jose over.
The same as it did for every manager he's played for.
Can he be improved upon? Definitely.
Probably Skipp will replace him next season, or the season after that. But right here and now, he's a useful squad player.
so... what you are saying is...
that we benefit from playing technically poor player who is awful with controlling the ball... against superior teams?!?
Sounds good, yea. Have Sissoko on field so Liverpool can actually press him, regain possession close to our box and then go straight on the goal. What a cleaver tactical move!
Literally people are complaining that ball moves slowly and we are boring to watch... but it is tricky if 1 out of 2 players that have been sitting in the engine room is not capable of playing easy one-two's. Maybe there is some kind of connection there?
I actually agree that he has been useful in some games this season - for example game against Woolwich comes to mind. In that one I remember him really energetically closing down scum players and putting them on pressure with nudges against shoulders etc. But in most games his contribution is simply not good enough. I really liked to watch our game against Sheffield, when I saw that all of our MF players had at least basic skills needed to be a pro footballer.
what im saying is, hes better than some of the other shit we have for big games. yes we would want an actual footballer in there who can do both, but we dont have that. id rather sissoko against the better sides than winks or dele.
in an ideal world we would like to go toe to toe with the likes of city but we dont have the midfield to do that. son is also tailor made for the counter attack, stick him in a possession based team and he wouldnt be all that hes not that sort of player, hes all about getting him in behind where hes running down on goal.
to be fair sissoko is actually better when hes pressed imo hahah, give him time and he doesnt know what to do with the ball, acting on instinct hes far better...i think a lot of our weaker players are like that
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6th most passes for Spurs this season.
That's a total, which is effected by minutes on the pitch - of which he's played nearly double Winks (who he's mostly been alternating with in CM). he has the 9th average of passes per 90 (33), Winks (46 pg) has more and Hojbjerg (69 pg) averages 3 times as many passes per game. Ndombele is only 1 behind (32) and he's played less minutes and all bar Sunday (where he made 78 passes) as ACM.
Not sure why you are including 2018 WC win in his CV, he was nowhere near it. You're right though, he did play in the 2016 final, where they got beat at home by a shit, Ronaldoless Portugal. Yay.
If the team needs a friend, let's just get chirpy back, we won't haver to watch him trundle about the pitch during a match like a baby rhino on smack and he won't cost us 5m a year.
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This was a reply to someone earlier in the thread, but yeah, fundamentally there is actually a very tangible correlation with our demise and the minutes Sissoko played for us since joining:
And no, I'm not saying it is all Sissoko's fault that we declined*, but there is a correlation there.
* I am saying that
Why, he's taking up a valuable non HG space that could go to someone who's a footballer? Surely that would be better?
No doubt there are better CMs out there but who could we realistically get and how much would they cost?
I can't see Jose going for an unproven/up and coming in a critical position.
One that will be a guaranteed starter I mean.
Because a 25 man squad isn't always littered with world class talent & youth players don't have to be registered or they go on loan
Stevee, we could chuck a dart into the squad list of midfielders for most teams in Europe's top 7 leagues and there's about a 95% chance we would hit a better midfielder.
We could have had Sangare for 9m last summer. And there's a few of those types of bargains kicking around, several in Ligue 1 for sure, and others leagues as well, for 25-30 (no more than we paid for Sissoko 5 years ago) people like Sabitzer & Kessie are reportedly available as they enter latter part of contracts.
If Jose wants to improve this team, he may have to. We signed Bergwijn for 30m without him being on Mou's wish list.
We have got to improve on Sissoko, even as a squad option. It's killing us, even with Mou's bus, and sooner pr later we will have another manager who might want to kick the ball through, not over midfield?
Anyone willing to take bets on
bus-conductor
not surviving the massive drink n drugs bender he goes on when Sissoko eventually leaves the club? 
bus-conductor
not surviving the massive drink n drugs bender he goes on when Sissoko eventually leaves the club?