Player Watch: Moussa Sissoko

[matthew.absurdum]

It’s ironic that I was at a bus stop when reading this post.

Did you see the bus conductor at the bus stop?

 

[BringBack_leGin]

You're so cringeworthy.

My posts are clearly littered with hyperbole - because I'm a very funny person (you wouldn't understand).

The irony was you quoting yourself saying, "I never failed to be sickened by the gleeful 'I told you so' comments on this site, as if posters feel that their oracle like football foresight has been validated" in a post which was undoubtedly a gleeful 'I told you so' post, making yourself out to have "oracle-like football foresight".

Don't ever challenge me on the English language again. I have a degree in English and write for a living. If you ever dream that you have mastered the English language to the extent I have - you should wake up and apologise.

Let me know if you need any private lessons about what irony is, you blissfully ignorant sod.

You have a degree in English? Sounds like they’re being handed out like smarties. The fact that you write for a living might have meaning if you’d shown your opinions to be anything other than worthless. As for my post being ironic, still wrong, because my post was about the disgust I took at people who say I told you so when their negativity is in their eyes proven, I was taking glee in my positivity being in my eyes proven. Which in the actual post, and not your decontextualised version, is very evident. Again, please, for your own sake, pick up a fucking dictionary.

Also, ‘don’t ever challenge me on English’, really’? What a thing to come out with. Given your ‘mastery’ of the English language, you’ll know what this word means: bromidic - and it describes you perfectly.

I make no claims about myself in terms of intelligence, football knowledge or understanding, or ‘linguistic mastery’. No, to do any such thing on a football fan forum would be pathetic. All I claim is to support the club I love in full, and that includes everyone from chairman through manager, players, down to the mascot. It does not surprise me that this is lost to you, because as I have already made clear, I believe you to be a quite terrible supporter and one who I sincerely hope doesn’t attend games, because we don’t need the likes of you.

 

[Spurrific]

You have a degree in English? Sounds like they’re being handed out like smarties. The fact that you write for a living might have meaning if you’d shown your opinions to be anything other than worthless. As for my post being ironic, still wrong, because my post was about the disgust I took at people who say I told you so when their negativity is in their eyes proven, I was taking glee in my positivity being in my eyes proven. Which in the actual post, and not your decontextualised version, is very evident. Again, please, for your own sake, pick up a fucking dictionary.

Also, ‘don’t ever challenge me on English’, really’? What a thing to come out with. Given your ‘mastery’ of the English language, you’ll know what this word means: bromidic - and it describes you perfectly.

I make no claims about myself in terms of intelligence, football knowledge or understanding, or ‘linguistic mastery’. No, to do any such thing on a football fan forum would be pathetic. All I claim is to support the club I love in full, and that includes everyone from chairman through manager, players, down to the mascot. It does not surprise me that this is list to you, because as I have already made clear, I believe you to be a quite terrible supporter and one who I sincerely hope doesn’t attend games, because we don’t need the likes of you.

Edit - cba - soz for hurting your feelings BBLG. Hope you can forgive me

 

[Shadydan]

Sissoko causing arguments about the command of the English language on the forum, he's arrived

 

[Lilbaz]

Shots fired, we have a man down! Will no-one think of the children?

 

[The Doc]

Wake me up before you go go
Who needs mastery of the English language
When you've got Sissoko

 

[Mr Pink]

Wtf is going on in here ?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Wtf is going on in here ?

We have to fight. It’s who we are

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

OK fine, i couldn't find a horse with a water cannon so everything went off the rails, this is the best i could do. Now let's get this thread back on track.

 

[scat1620]

I make no claims about myself in terms of intelligence, football knowledge or understanding, or ‘linguistic mastery’. No, to do any such thing on a football fan forum would be pathetic. All

You literally described your own opinions as "erudite" and "objective" the other day. It was the SC equivalent of this:

 

[BringBack_leGin]

You literally described your own opinions as "erudite" and "objective" the other day. It was the SC equivalent of this:

No, I described one point I had made as having been done in an objective, erudite manner (which are both entirely possible without being intelligent or containing any knowledge of football, by the way). Furthermore, this was in retaliation to someone unleashing a personal attack, a quite abusive personal attack in fact, just because they were didn’t like the facts as I had portrayed them. None of this bears any significance to the now ended dispute between myself and spurrrific, who although het up earlier clearly has some substance, but like me in the moment probably took it further than he’d have liked. As ever with you old bean, your postings live up to that which your username describes.

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

Some awfully thin skins in here.

Is he now our best Moussa? I think so. Shame he’s a bit old.

 

[Snarfalicious]

Full credit to him, despite all the negativity surrounding him, he's managed to really rise to the occasion. It's unquestionable that he's been pivotal to our success over the past couple of months or so, and considering the value of the matches we've played during that span, that's dang near invaluable.

 

[Anurag Jo]

Some awfully thin skins in here.

Is he now our best Moussa? I think so. Shame he’s a bit old.

Question is not his age but consistency. Hopefully he keeps churning out performances.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

Yep, I'm looking forward to the day the club hands him a new contract personally providing he continues to play at the level and beyond.

We obviously still need a midfielder or two in addition to him.

New contract after 2 very good performances and a couple of decent ones? Bloody hell.

I'm delighted he's playing well at the moment because we really needed it. But I think he needs to produce this type of form for a good 12-18 months before we even consider a new deal.

 

[Shadydan]

New contract after 2 very good performances and a couple of decent ones? Bloody hell.

I'm delighted he's playing well at the moment because we really needed it. But I think he needs to produce this type of form for a good 12-18 months before we even consider a new deal.

It's been more than 2 good performances and I said providing he continues to play at this level so really not sure what you're arguing against?

 

[longtimespur]

About time people got of his back and got fully behind him. He's not playing crap anymore so let it go.

 

[rossdapep]

New contract after 2 very good performances and a couple of decent ones? Bloody hell.

I'm delighted he's playing well at the moment because we really needed it. But I think he needs to produce this type of form for a good 12-18 months before we even consider a new deal.

Disagree. Yes he's only just started to become a midfield powerhouse recently and to start talking him up as a 'legend' is premature.

However, before his new found form he was actually quite reliable in terms of doing a job and covering players and being disciplined, sure he was terrible with the ball but he has always got his head down and worked hard. Why do you think Poch has been so persistent with him?

This kind of attitude is imperative at the club and it's important to keep players around who if not playing, are still going to crack on and put the team first. I see that very much so with Sissoko.

 

[kaz Hirai]

I notice he posts a hell of a lot on insta these days, all spurs footy related. With his little MS17#
The confidence is flowing through him

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Disagree. Yes he's only just started to become a midfield powerhouse recently and to start talking him up as a 'legend' is premature.

However, before his new found form he was actually quite reliable in terms of doing a job and covering players and being disciplined, sure he was terrible with the ball but he has always got his head down and worked hard. Why do you think Poch has been so persistent with him?

This kind of attitude is imperative at the club and it's important to keep players around who if not playing, are still going to crack on and put the team first. I see that very much so with Sissoko.

This highlights one of the reasons why Pochettino kept putting him on the pitch, often as a late substitute, but I'd phrase it slightly differently.

Sissoko's work off the ball is consistently good. He has a very solid positional sense. It's one of the semi-invisible traits to a footballer that the "individual errors" school of football fans tend to miss, because they're ball-watching all the time. We'll be attacking and there will be a transition and the opposition's break will be just that bit less threatening because there's Sissoko, in the right place, steering the counter-attack away from the danger zone just by being there.

All he had to do was to return his ball control and passing to a decent standard of competence, because bloody hell, it wasn't anywhere near that until recently, for his other assets to become valuable. And to stop shooting. Please.