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Two things.... he has hardly kicked a ball for us and when he has he has been good and bad, couple of assists along the way, hardly lost games for us, the outright criticism of him has been spectacularly over the top and many follow like sheep to sound cool and just join in.
Secondly, hindsight is a beautiful thing. He just come off the back of being one of the outstanding players at the Euro's (many people who berate him on here will disagree blindly with this statement) and we were lacking someone older and of more experience in the team. Was he my first choice, no, but i'm pretty sure when this was going through there were a hell of a lot more people wanting it to happen then it not happen, because so many keep moaning about the net spend and not spending money. So you're dammed if you do and dammed if you don't.
But what is the end result of all this?? Aren't we second in the league, in the semi final of the FA Cup. So you could say we are in a better position than we were last year in a much stronger league than last year. Sissoko has been a part of that squad even if you and many others don't like that. So he's hardly ruined our team and ok he hasn't set the world alight, but look up North at the ridiculous waste of money that is Pogba. Sissoko was never purchased to be our star man he was added to strengthen the squad and we really won't lose much money on him in the summer. Maybe he might be adding extra motivation to some of our other players like Alli, Son, Eriksen, and Winks breaking through. Without him being in the squad, would they be performing at the level that they are? I don't know, i can't predict the future like you.
But come on. This whole thread is one of the most ridiculous ones on here. With little evidence backing up the shocking treatment this player gets.
He has hardly kicked a ball for us? Well that is sort of the problem here. He is a our record signing, he wasn't signed to be a fringe player, he wasn't brought in to occasionally provide support. We could have signed any number of players to do that for considerably less money as well. If you wish to have little to no expectations of such signings then good for you but it is simply naive to think others will follow suit or should be even expected to. And judging by your Progba comment it is clear threat you are being highly selective here, its perfectly within reason to do this to opposing teams players but wholly unacceptable with ours? Somewhat hypocritical wouldn't you say?
As hindsight, well hardly given that many stated their concerns over the player and signing at the time. Nothing we have seen so far should come as a surprise, this is exactly the player we saw for 3 seasons at Newcastle. I really couldn't care less what he did for France in a international tournament, it is a completely different format. Joe Allen was absolutely brilliant in the Euros, hr made the team of tournament but that doesn't result in him suddenly being good enough for us. There is a reason why he is at Stoke.
The end result of this is you like many others seemingly cannot accept any criticism of a player associated to this club. Praise? No issue, criticism of other clubs players, perfectly fine but dare to have a negative opinion of a Spurs player and the toys come straight out of the pram. If this thread causes such consternation then there is quite a simple solution to that, you avoid it.