The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY!

Scott Spur · Aug 31, 2016

dovahkiin said:
crazy, im 4 pages back and the next post was posted 'a moment ago'

Keep up mate

Scott Spur, 2 weeks ago

gibbospurs · Aug 31, 2016

The world has gone mental

BringBack_leGin · Aug 31, 2016

Stoof said:
We get it, you're not a fan.

Reckon there's a podgy Argentinian that disagrees with you.

What does Taricco have to do with any of this?

shoggy33 · Aug 31, 2016

I'd much rather a 'desperate to join' sissoko than a desperate not to join 'isco'. If he's motivated he's pretty unplayable, and he's proven he can do it in this league

millsey · Aug 31, 2016

Are we certain its 30 mill? Read it's over 5 years instalments, which in that time we would have made over 500 million from to payments alone

KILLA_SIN · Aug 31, 2016

codspur said:
Sissoko looked better than Pogba in the Euros fuck what he looked like at Newcastle...he was under a succession of shit managers there. could be a beast for us

Thats how I expected Pogba to play.

If hes motivated and hungry he could be a very good.

JayB · Aug 31, 2016

millsey said:
Do you think he may play AM?

AMR is his main position, but I'm sure he's being brought in with a view to possibly slotting in for Dembele as well. In the event that he doesn't adapt to a CM2 we can drop Dele back and play Sissoko further up.

idontgetit · Aug 31, 2016

Lol I can imagine Poch laying on a beach in Spain calling up Newcastle and doing his best Levy impression "Yeah 30m!"

arunspurs · Aug 31, 2016

Great job @Rob , site has stood the test...First time I guess , Site performance not going down on deadline day.

evo23 · Aug 31, 2016

Always risky spending 30m on a player.

I suppose with sissoko we have a player who knows what the premier league is about and can hit the ground running, which is what we need.

Can't afford a Lamela type signing to take 2 years to settle again.

Good business

absolute bobbins · Aug 31, 2016

WalkerboyUK said:
LOL... SSN saying Everton couldn't get hold of Sissoko to confirm the deal and that his agents said he isn't interested.

We've Willian'd Everton

tommyt · Aug 31, 2016

rossdapep said:
but probably still applies. He doesn't really say much transfer deadline day anyway, especially not in the final hours

Sorry, what was that?

;-)

DIEHARD · Aug 31, 2016

My time stamps are fucked on this thread.

I have posts from the future in this thread

L-man · Aug 31, 2016

If Jimmy Greaves was £99k how on earth is Sissoko £30mil

eddiev14 · Aug 31, 2016

Mr Pink said:
Honestly, I've watched this guy a lot, absolute best of a player. If Poch taps in and gets his head right, this is a huge signing for us, huge.

Don't make the mistake of being underwhelmed because of the inconsistentcy at Newcastle, it was a mess.

This guy has the ability to pull defences all over the shop. What a signing to round out our midfield options.

We've seriously just upgraded our strength in depth if this goes through.

I agree with you here.

I think it's the money that is jarring.

I think if we'd signed him for £10-15m most people would be saying this.

We need to forget the money though. It's annoying because other fans and media will tease us about it but that doesn't actually matter.

Bottom line, we will NEVER be a pushover in midfield now we have Sissoko and Wanyama to add to our options.

Remember that game at West Ham where they bullied us? Or literally every game Ryan Mason or Tom Carroll played last season where they were totally anonymous.

This guy will be the opposite of that. He will add running and power to our team and - crucially - is a strong option as we will get injuries.

Also your point about Pochettino is spot on. If you put the training methods he uses into a player like that then I'd be amazed if his performances don't go up 1-2 levels at least.

Finally, it is well documented that Poch scrutinises player characters before any of them get signed. If he thought he wasn't up for putting the work in there is no way we'd have even bid for him.

It's too expensive but it's a good signing.

Scott Spur · Aug 31, 2016

millsey said:
Why does anyone care how much a multi billionaire just spent on a player?? You all wanted a dembele alternative, we've just got a very good one. Don't care if he was 3 or 30 million

Because next season we'll be lucky to spend £4.50 on players as Levy tries to get his money back......

St José Dominguez · Aug 31, 2016

Call me crazy but Levy doesn't strike me as someone who'd pay 30m for someone Poch doesn't want. We've shown ambition if this happens. It's what people wanted, spend big money on a player the manager wants.

mil1lion · Aug 31, 2016

Oh Mousa Dembele
Oh Moussa Sissoko :whistle:

Lets not forget that it's £30m in 6 instalments so only £5m at a time. Broken down it isn't so bad.

This has turned out as a very good window. Pritchard, Yedlin, Fazio were all on loan and Bentaleb not featured so neither needed replacing. Mason replaced with Sissoko while Wanyama adds to the defensive midfield hole, Janssen replaces Chadli who tried to fill in up top and N'Koudou replaces N'Jie who clearly isn't suited to the wide attacking role.

THOWIG · Aug 31, 2016

Think it was JJ who stated that Pochettino has been a fan for a long time.

djw1973 · Aug 31, 2016

Newcastle sign Atsu from Chelsea on season long loan, what are the chances of a hijack for Sissoko with Atsu used as a makeweight?

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