Cannot remember where I read it and you maybe right.I thought it was a Spurs fan page who made that up? I always just assumed it was obvious Sissoko wouldn't stay 5 years and Newcastle probably wouldn't have agreed to something as stupid.
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Cannot remember where I read it and you maybe right.I thought it was a Spurs fan page who made that up? I always just assumed it was obvious Sissoko wouldn't stay 5 years and Newcastle probably wouldn't have agreed to something as stupid.
It was in the Standard. Of course it could be bollocks.I thought it was a Spurs fan page who made that up? I always just assumed it was obvious Sissoko wouldn't stay 5 years and Newcastle probably wouldn't have agreed to something as stupid.
Well someone clearly rates him!Not really funny though is it?
Mahrez has had a shit year by all accounts, no one has said he's been world class this season.
Have you ever heard of a sale being made that way before, not just in football, but in any kind of business? It's insane, what possible leverage would Ashley or whoever have in the negotiation?
Ashley: I see you have just sold Sissoko for 20 million. You've paid your first installment so that's 24 million you owe me.
Levy. No, I'm not going to pay that. I'll give you 8 million and loan you an N' player we might have lying around
Ashley: But... but... but...
Isn't it a thousand times more likely that this is a standard practice £30 million payable in 5 installments, outstanding balance on sale, as happens hundreds of times every season?
It seems to me that people made this fantasy up (despite there being no evidence to back up the claim) because they couldn't face the fact that we'd been sold a lemon at a vastly inflated price at needed to spin it so Levy came out looking quite the Clever Trevor
But he scored last night against Paraguay!Can't believe people can still argue that he's not been a complete and utter shocker of a signing , he's Pauliniho bad.
It's not bizarre it just didn't work out. If he was brilliant it wouldn't be a weird signing
Can't believe people can still argue that he's not been a complete and utter shocker of a signing , he's Pauliniho bad.
I thought he was a weird signing he just didn't fit the mold of what we normally go for , I'm convinced we procrastinated and missed our main targets and panicked and bought Sissoko , Newcastle made him available as soon as they went down , we signed him in the 11th hour of deadline day doesn't take a genius to work out he wasn't that high up on the shopping list.
He hasn't. Paulinho was shit - cost us games, embarrasingly poor tackles, hide behind the sofa shots.
When Sissoko leaves, there won't be any clips of him that make him look shit - just not enough to make him look worth £30m. Let's not live in a fantasy world.
We will flog him to China and double the money!We paid 30 million for a player that can't even control a football.
Levy has been pretty close to bullet proof lately but Sissoko is an embarrassment.
There is one thing with a last minute deal out of the blue, and another with it being a strange signing. Levy is notorious for this tactic so panic buy it may well not have been. He could have been haggling all week for all we know.
We signed VDV at the deadline too, and lots of fans greeted it with the same kind of "weird signing for overhyped, injured, past it player" stuff there too, until he turned legend overnight.
Had Sissoko performed like the player we tried to buy (on the back of his Euros) he would have absolutely fit our mould in the middle...a power house playmaker who could almost be described as box to box.
Dembele was suspended for the first 6 games of the season and Poch clearly had one eye on playing Dier back in defence at some point in the season.
I also believe that Lamelas injury was part of the reason Sissoko was always later used as an option out wide. Sissoko's early appearances were in central midfield.
Its not as odd as people make out, and as I said, if he played as well as Dembele and Wanyama no one would question it.
We paid 30 million for a player that can't even control a football.
Levy has been pretty close to bullet proof lately but Sissoko is an embarrassment.
Which leads me to believe there has to be something about this buy we don't know.
This is the antithesis of a Levy buy
Hahaha, the key was in the apostrophe!An N player we have lying about fuck me I took that in COMPLETELY wrong context :clintonohshit:
There is one thing with a last minute deal out of the blue, and another with it being a strange signing. Levy is notorious for this tactic so panic buy it may well not have been. He could have been haggling all week for all we know.
We signed VDV at the deadline too, and lots of fans greeted it with the same kind of "weird signing for overhyped, injured, past it player" stuff there too, until he turned legend overnight.
Had Sissoko performed like the player we tried to buy (on the back of his Euros) he would have absolutely fit our mould in the middle...a power house playmaker who could almost be described as box to box.
Dembele was suspended for the first 6 games of the season and Poch clearly had one eye on playing Dier back in defence at some point in the season.
I also believe that Lamelas injury was part of the reason Sissoko was always later used as an option out wide. Sissoko's early appearances were in central midfield.
Its not as odd as people make out, and as I said, if he played as well as Dembele and Wanyama no one would question it.
Did anyone really react like that to VDV?