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MOTM

  • Trippier

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Toby

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Sanchez

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Davies

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dier

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Winks

    Votes: 19 6.4%
  • Sissoko

    Votes: 36 12.2%
  • Lamela

    Votes: 122 41.4%
  • Moura

    Votes: 9 3.1%
  • Kane

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Dembele

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lorente

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Eriksen

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lloris

    Votes: 101 34.2%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 3 1.0%
  • None Deserved

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Total voters
    295

JimmyG2

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Better today with more players turning up though against poor opposition.
More individuals than team work still.

Pretty Good........7+/8....Lamela, Winks ,Lloris.
Decent.................6+/7....Moura, Toby, Sissoko, Dier.
OK........................5/6......Kane, Sanchez
Struggling............4.........Davies, Trippier

Moura's pace scared them but not much end product.
Sissoko got it together at last.
Lamela and Winks key to controlling the game.
Missing Dele's flair, and Eriksen knitting things together.
 

davros

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A better performance than we've seen recently, but some way off our best. Still, 21 points from 9 games isn't bad. That's the main thing.

MOTM? I guess the right answer is Lloris, but I'll go with Lamela. What a story. Looked like his career was done - at least with us - and now he's back and proving his worth and justifying Poch's faith in him. His face is bright like deer face.
 

bomberH

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I have to be honest in my assessment of Sissoko and I don’t think it’ll go down too well judging by the overwhelming support for him today.

I’ll do a Family Guy compliment sandwich where I say something nice, followed by something not so nice, then end with something nice.

Ok, firstly, his assist for the goal is without doubt the best thing he’s done in a Spurs shirt.

But.... I wish someone could do a highlights reel for every touch he had today. Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t the only player to have bad touches - Trippier and Davies were awful today in my opinion - but I don’t quite get how people think he’s anywhere near MOTM when Lucas, Lloris and Winks were just amazing. Sissoko was decent on the whole today, but he still made several misplaced passes, stood around when he should’ve been finding space, weirdly a couple of times he didn’t attempt a tackle when he should’ve and just let the player run away from him and lastly, he ran himself into trouble 2 or 3 times because he just didn’t know what to do with the ball or get rid of it quickly enough.

I have to state that the only reason I’m singling Sissoko out in this post is purely because I’m really surprised at some giving him MOTM. Is it because we don’t expect much from him so when he does put in a decent performance it feels like he’s played a worldie?

Ok, now to end on a good bit. Sissoko had his best game for us. He likes the easy pass but he did it well and there were a few good triangles going on at times when we needed to keep the ball. His effort was good and he didn’t look out of place today.


Lucas’ runs were amazing. Lloris’ saves were amazing. Lamela’s skill and effort were amazing. Winks was back to his best today, I thought he was excellent. Toby was solid as always. Dier was decent.

Trippier and Davies were poor. Sanchez and Kane were a bit meh.


For the guys on here that really love Sissoko, if you decide you’re gonna have a go or take issue with my comments, please read what I’ve said about the misplaced passes etc and the fact that I’ve only mentioned him because of the MOTM comments. Happy to be proved wrong on the constructive criticism I gave him but please explain rather than ‘haters gonna hate’ type stuff.... The best compliment I can give him today is that usually, I genuinely believe he’s the worst player in our team 90% of the time he plays. Today, he was our 6th/7th best player and although I didn’t think it was a particularly great performance, if he played like that every week then I wouldn’t be as bothered if I saw his name on the team sheet.

Family guy compliment sandwich:

 

yusrisafri

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I have to be honest in my assessment of Sissoko and I don’t think it’ll go down too well judging by the overwhelming support for him today.

I’ll do a Family Guy compliment sandwich where I say something nice, followed by something not so nice, then end with something nice.

Ok, firstly, his assist for the goal is without doubt the best thing he’s done in a Spurs shirt.

But.... I wish someone could do a highlights reel for every touch he had today. Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t the only player to have bad touches - Trippier and Davies were awful today in my opinion - but I don’t quite get how people think he’s anywhere near MOTM when Lucas, Lloris and Winks were just amazing. Sissoko was decent on the whole today, but he still made several misplaced passes, stood around when he should’ve been finding space, weirdly a couple of times he didn’t attempt a tackle when he should’ve and just let the player run away from him and lastly, he ran himself into trouble 2 or 3 times because he just didn’t know what to do with the ball or get rid of it quickly enough.

I have to state that the only reason I’m singling Sissoko out in this post is purely because I’m really surprised at some giving him MOTM. Is it because we don’t expect much from him so when he does put in a decent performance it feels like he’s played a worldie?

Ok, now to end on a good bit. Sissoko had his best game for us. He likes the easy pass but he did it well and there were a few good triangles going on at times when we needed to keep the ball. His effort was good and he didn’t look out of place today.


Lucas’ runs were amazing. Lloris’ saves were amazing. Lamela’s skill and effort were amazing. Winks was back to his best today, I thought he was excellent. Toby was solid as always. Dier was decent.

Trippier and Davies were poor. Sanchez and Kane were a bit meh.


For the guys on here that really love Sissoko, if you decide you’re gonna have a go or take issue with my comments, please read what I’ve said about the misplaced passes etc and the fact that I’ve only mentioned him because of the MOTM comments. Happy to be proved wrong on the constructive criticism I gave him but please explain rather than ‘haters gonna hate’ type stuff.... The best compliment I can give him today is that usually, I genuinely believe he’s the worst player in our team 90% of the time he plays. Today, he was our 6th/7th best player and although I didn’t think it was a particularly great performance, if he played like that every week then I wouldn’t be as bothered if I saw his name on the team sheet.

Family guy compliment sandwich:


Haters gonna hate.

Kidding ok. Fair comment.
 

mattdefoe

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Kane struggling without the creative forces of eriksen and dele . But winning with out him offering much is a bonus , lamela , sissoko , winks should all be proud
 

bomberH

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@Mr Pink - So you don’t agree with the 4 things I listed? You think he didn’t misplace several passes or run into trouble etc?

It’s always easy for someone online to press ‘dislike’ but I’m genuinely intrigued to know what you dislike. I’ve given what I believe is a fair assessment of his performance, good and bad, and explained why I’ve singled him out so any chance you could share your thoughts as to what it is you don’t like?

(This isn’t a ‘grrr I hate negative ratings’ post, this is a genuine request to know more about your thoughts on my post. I’ll get other negs on that post too but you were the first so you’re the unlucky one....!)
 

BringBack_leGin

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Don’t let the last 15/20 minutes cloud over a good performance, West Ham went gung ho and we held out well and would have punished them on the counter if Lucas and Kane had any legs/ Pochettino had been proactive with his substitutions. At that point West Ham we’re lucky to be in it, we had done all the attacking, we had dominated possession and we had played all the football. Away (again) to a side with fresher legs after internationals, playing their most important game of the season, and who have a fair bit of quality, we did well and can be pleased.

That’s not to say it was perfect:

Lloris has his best game in perhaps over a year. A couple of great saves, confident on crosses and some excellent distribution. Lookedconfident after his strong international displays.

Trippier was bad, very bad. Defensively he could stop anybody who ran at him, in attack, apart from some decen link up with Sissoko, his crossing was unthreatening and his set pieces ineffective.

Alderweireld had a good game. Strong against physical tactics, cut out a lot and some good passing.

Sanchez had a couple of shaky moments but overall looked better, using his pace well, winning most in the air and overall winning the battle with Arnautovic.

Davies was mildly better than Trippier as defensively he was solid, but going forward he was poor.

Dier played well, his passing was overall pretty good and off the ball he marshalled things nicely with his aggression and good reading of West Ham’s play.

Winks was good. He kept possession well, was disciplined off the ball, drove forward with the ball very well and was more cutting with his passing. Gets a nosebleed in the final third but that instinct and vision will only develop with playing team.

Sissoko, one inexplicable attempted dribble out of defence aside, played well. He offered a good threat down the right with a simple remit of pin back Cresswell, get the ball foreword and cross, which he performed well and created our goal through.

Lamela played well and scored a lovely winner. He fought constantly off the balm in the press, he kept the ball high up the pitch and he kept our passing varied. Not always decisive enough but involved in most good play.

Lucas was a great outlet, bursting up the pitch several times, showing pace and skill throughout. He worked hard off the ball and played the pass of the match to release Kane. Left everything on the pitch.

Kane wasn’t at his best, he didn’t look sharp when presented with his best chance to score, his hold up play was patchy and he didn’t get into the box enough. That said, he did put his body on the line and took a right kicking, he showed a few lovely touches to take possession and played his usual few special passes, so I’d say mixed rather than bad. Did look leggy though.

Dembele added some balm retention when we were under the cosh, Llorente didn’t really do anything and Eriksen had too little pitch time.

Oh, and Mark Noble is a **** who should’ve been sent off.
 

mpickard2087

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Jun 13, 2008
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I think most of us accepted that it would be a tough start to the season, a myriad of factors going on that could affect us, far from ideal preparation, and the general consensus was that we just had to get through the opening stage of the season/autumn period, pick up points by any means necessary, and stay in contention at the top.

In the league at least, we're managing to do that, and so shouldn't complain too much right now. But again you have to say that was a really tough watch. We're getting through games just about doing enough, and with a little luck thrown in. Enough quality (in attack, and defence) to see off most teams in the league over 90 minutes, but every facet of play is way, way down on the standards expected.

This was a pretty poor West Ham team in all truth. Not the mob that usually plays like their lives depend on it against us, fairly open and primed to be got at, and only a token effort towards the end that we invited. First half I thought we moved the ball so slowly and with no precision that we didn't take advantage, second half it was obvious from fairly early on (even more so after the subs) that we'd decided 1-0 was enough and didn't push any more, and so sat on our lead and absorbed pressure (that, thanks to Hugo, we didn't get punished for......).

Roll on that much hoped for post-Xmas improvement.......


Lloris - Made some crucial saves towards the end as we invited pressure.

Trippier - Crap.

Sanchez - Shoved around quite a lot. Needs to make better decisions at times, but he keeps going when others would get rattled.

Alderweireld - Also got shoved around quite a lot in all truth. His passing this season is also really bad right now. However, in moments where we need someone to kick or head the ball away, it's invariably him who is there to do it.

Davies - Another week, another nothing performance. Too many touches most of the time.

Dier - Good first half, second not as good and when Dembele came on he seemed to get tasked with pressing and this just led him to ambling about offering very little.

Winks - Competent enough for the most part and positive on the ball and got us playing forward well. Not great with some of his positioning late on when we were sitting back. Too many touches most of the time.

Sissoko - Good first half with several effective runs into the space WH left and excellent play to set up the goal. Second half offered mostly sweet FA, as part of the negative tactics he largely held position and his threat was taken away. Too many touches most of the time.

Lamela - Worked hard, some decent stuff at times first half, and scored the important goal, I thought it was increasingly towards the 'fucking about and going round in circles' end of the Lamela performance scale though as the game wore on. Too many touches most of the time.

Moura - Yeah, some eye catching stuff and good bursts. No idea when/where to run though and I thought his off the ball work wasn't great in this game, particularly in those latter stages. Too many touches most of the time.

Kane - Held the ball up a handful of times, otherwise we may have been playing with 10 men.

Subs:
Dembele - Not exactly the most secure anchor sat in front of the defence in his spell on the pitch.
Llorente - n/a.
Eriksen - n/a.
 
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Mr Pink

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@Mr Pink - So you don’t agree with the 4 things I listed? You think he didn’t misplace several passes or run into trouble etc?

It’s always easy for someone online to press ‘dislike’ but I’m genuinely intrigued to know what you dislike. I’ve given what I believe is a fair assessment of his performance, good and bad, and explained why I’ve singled him out so any chance you could share your thoughts as to what it is you don’t like?

(This isn’t a ‘grrr I hate negative ratings’ post, this is a genuine request to know more about your thoughts on my post. I’ll get other negs on that post too but you were the first so you’re the unlucky one....!)

Overall it was a darn good performance. OK he misplaced a couple of passes, one in particular which nearly led to something.

On balance though I thought he was very good - just looking at the performance without caveating with the standard it's just because he's normally so poor so everyone is going overboard stuff..

So yeah I disagree with your overall assessment really, should of hit x.
 

bomberH

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Overall it was a darn good performance. OK he misplaced a couple of passes, one in particular which nearly led to something.

On balance though I thought he was very good - just looking at the performance without caveating with the standard it's just because he's normally so poor so everyone is going overboard stuff..

So yeah I disagree with your overall assessment really, should of hit x.

Fair enough. I really don’t think it was just a case of ‘misplacing a couple of passes’ though. I can only give my opinion on what I saw. Despite what you say, I genuinely can’t help but think that we judge him differently to others because of his previous poor performances. He got a very good ovation when he came off yesterday and I think that’s because the fans, especially the always-demanding away fans, appreciated that he was much better than he has been for us. But I also think that ‘much better’ for Sissoko equals ‘decent enough game’ for most of our other players if that makes sense.

If I knew how to do it I would love to do a highlights reel of his game yesterday, just to show people why I think calls for him being MOTM are odd. There were a good few unforced errors that a better team than West Ham may have taken advantage of. If Winks or Dembele etc had his exact game, I don’t think they’d be getting as much praise. But as I said, overall it’s definitely a step up from his previous games so hopefully he continues that form when he next starts for us. The bottom line is that without his contribution, we wouldn’t have scored our goal so that’s a massive bonus.

He’ll be playing a few times I imagine in the next few weeks with the amount of games we have. Hopefully he’ll get a bit of confidence from this.
 
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mattdefoe

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Lloris - 9. Won us the game. Looked back to his best. His kicking was even unusually accurate.

Toby - 8. Very solid. Some really good defensive work, the slide tackle on Arnautovic was world class because he would have been in on goal and probably scored too.

Sanchez - 6.5. Solid as well. Didn't do too much wrong. But Christ with the ball at his feet he looks like a deer in headlights. He shouldn't be asked to play the ball out. I think that's why Dier and Dembele often come and take the ball from him. He absolutely murders the ball when he's passing out wide to the full backs. A worry but at least he's showing the form defensively beside Toby that he did next to Jan all season.

Trippier and Davies - 6. Meh. Average. Trippier looks like he's believing his hype a bit too much since the WC. His free kicks and corners are not great recently either. Getting caught committing to challenges out wide and players are skipping him quite easily. Antonio did it 2 or 3 times in the last 15 minutes. Davies was ok. Didn't do much wrong but didn't really look comfortable either.

Winks - 7. Excellent all game. Offensively and defensively. Driving runs were an added bonus and the lad looks like he's got good close control with a burst of pace over 20 yards too. A real asset. Noble was gassed running around after him.

Dier - 7. Solid. A lot happening around him and he hardly misplaced a pass today. Really impressed with him in the last couple of games for England and Spurs.

Sissoko - 8. Who needs Bale when you got Sissoko? Looks like he's been working hard on the training pitch. Comfortable on the ball, tough tackling, all action. Really happy for him because he he's had a hard time here.

Lamela - 7. Lovely goal. Lovely end to the first half when he was just taking the absolute piss out of Diop and Anderson with flicks and touches. I actually laughed out loud when he flicked it over the lads leg and just breezed passed him.

Lucas - 7. Great running. Great dribbling. Sharp elbows. Lucky he didn't have his ankle or leg broken by that filth bag Snodgrass.

Kane - 6. Sluggish. Surprised he didn't score with his chance first half. Second half though, I loved his hold up play and control from high balls. Drawing loads of fouls and slowing the game down. A bit slow to move the ball when facing the goal but overall im optimistic with how he played second half. He definitely missed Dele though.

Completely agree regarding trippier I was about to post the same thing .

He’s trying to be to flash whilst getting the basics of the game wrong . Sometimes. Simple pass is on and he’s trying little flicks, the World Cup is a bad reflection on players given the level was poor and the caliber of teams England played were mostly lower league standard , he needs to improve because sane will walk all over him next week I’m actually scared about that
 

RichieS

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I have to be honest in my assessment of Sissoko and I don’t think it’ll go down too well judging by the overwhelming support for him today.

I’ll do a Family Guy compliment sandwich where I say something nice, followed by something not so nice, then end with something nice.

Ok, firstly, his assist for the goal is without doubt the best thing he’s done in a Spurs shirt.

But.... I wish someone could do a highlights reel for every touch he had today. Don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t the only player to have bad touches - Trippier and Davies were awful today in my opinion - but I don’t quite get how people think he’s anywhere near MOTM when Lucas, Lloris and Winks were just amazing. Sissoko was decent on the whole today, but he still made several misplaced passes, stood around when he should’ve been finding space, weirdly a couple of times he didn’t attempt a tackle when he should’ve and just let the player run away from him and lastly, he ran himself into trouble 2 or 3 times because he just didn’t know what to do with the ball or get rid of it quickly enough.

I have to state that the only reason I’m singling Sissoko out in this post is purely because I’m really surprised at some giving him MOTM. Is it because we don’t expect much from him so when he does put in a decent performance it feels like he’s played a worldie?

Ok, now to end on a good bit. Sissoko had his best game for us. He likes the easy pass but he did it well and there were a few good triangles going on at times when we needed to keep the ball. His effort was good and he didn’t look out of place today.


Lucas’ runs were amazing. Lloris’ saves were amazing. Lamela’s skill and effort were amazing. Winks was back to his best today, I thought he was excellent. Toby was solid as always. Dier was decent.

Trippier and Davies were poor. Sanchez and Kane were a bit meh.


For the guys on here that really love Sissoko, if you decide you’re gonna have a go or take issue with my comments, please read what I’ve said about the misplaced passes etc and the fact that I’ve only mentioned him because of the MOTM comments. Happy to be proved wrong on the constructive criticism I gave him but please explain rather than ‘haters gonna hate’ type stuff.... The best compliment I can give him today is that usually, I genuinely believe he’s the worst player in our team 90% of the time he plays. Today, he was our 6th/7th best player and although I didn’t think it was a particularly great performance, if he played like that every week then I wouldn’t be as bothered if I saw his name on the team sheet.

Family guy compliment sandwich:


I'm not sure anyone really loves Sissoko, but occasionally some (myself included) might come across that way as a reaction to the unfairly negative representation of him put forward by some posters. I think the meat of your compliment sandwich is a fair comment on most of his performances in a Spurs shirt tbh, and I think had we got him for c.£10m he'd get a lot less "hate" than he does. But he was Newcastle's best player (that probably says more about the rest of them than it does him tbf) and we were desperate, so we overpaid - not his fault.

What we can all do without is the posts (of which there were several in this thread) slagging him off before the game's even started. With some people this then morphs into a wider criticism of the strength of our squad/transfer policy which has the effect of getting the goats of people who would be otherwise uninterested. There was some of it at the start of this thread: "...there wasn't a single better player in world football we could buy", or words to that effect. Erm, we had at least 3 better alternatives on the bench but the manager chose, of his own free will, to play Sissoko.

TL;DR - Sissoko is often a channel for fans harbouring ill-will toward the club atm and it pisses me off.
 

bomberH

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I'm not sure anyone really loves Sissoko, but occasionally some (myself included) might come across that way as a reaction to the unfairly negative representation of him put forward by some posters. I think the meat of your compliment sandwich is a fair comment on most of his performances in a Spurs shirt tbh, and I think had we got him for c.£10m he'd get a lot less "hate" than he does. But he was Newcastle's best player (that probably says more about the rest of them than it does him tbf) and we were desperate, so we overpaid - not his fault.

What we can all do without is the posts (of which there were several in this thread) slagging him off before the game's even started. With some people this then morphs into a wider criticism of the strength of our squad/transfer policy which has the effect of getting the goats of people who would be otherwise uninterested. There was some of it at the start of this thread: "...there wasn't a single better player in world football we could buy", or words to that effect. Erm, we had at least 3 better alternatives on the bench but the manager chose, of his own free will, to play Sissoko.

TL;DR - Sissoko is often a channel for fans harbouring ill-will toward the club atm and it pisses me off.

Yep fair points. Personally the one thing I hate is fans getting on a player’s back during a game (at the game). I’ve actually silenced a supporter who was booing Sissoko last season. It’s a bit different online though, I think some people have had enough of his perceived lack of ability and maybe they were constructive in their criticism initially but as it went on and on, they found it easier to just say ‘Sissoko’s shit’ etc. I don’t do that, I always try and give constructive criticism.

And you’re right about Pochettino. I won’t lie, for me personally, it’s the one thing I don’t really get about Poch but he obviously believes that Sissoko can do a job for us and I accept that.
 

spurs mental

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Completely agree regarding trippier I was about to post the same thing .

He’s trying to be to flash whilst getting the basics of the game wrong . Sometimes. Simple pass is on and he’s trying little flicks, the World Cup is a bad reflection on players given the level was poor and the caliber of teams England played were mostly lower league standard , he needs to improve because sane will walk all over him next week I’m actually scared about that

I think/hope Aurier might play v Sane.
 

Mr Pink

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Fair enough. I really don’t think it was just a case of ‘misplacing a couple of passes’ though. I can only give my opinion on what I saw. Despite what you say, I genuinely can’t help but think that we judge him differently to others because of his previous poor performances. He got a very good ovation when he came off yesterday and I think that’s because the fans, especially the always-demanding away fans, appreciated that he was much better than he has been for us. But I also think that ‘much better’ for Sissoko equals ‘decent enough game’ for most of our other players if that makes sense.

If I knew how to do it I would love to do a highlights reel of his game yesterday, just to show people why I think calls for him being MOTM are odd. There were a good few unforced errors that a better team than West Ham may have taken advantage of. If Winks or Dembele etc had his exact game, I don’t think they’d be getting as much praise. But as I said, overall it’s definitely a step up from his previous games so hopefully he continues that form when he next starts for us. The bottom line is that without his contribution, we wouldn’t have scored our goal so that’s a massive bonus.

He’ll be playing a few times I imagine in the next few weeks with the amount of games we have. Hopefully he’ll get a bit of confidence from this.

I wouldnt over analyse mate. I think he'd be on the shortlist for MOTM, nobody was exactly sensational.

But just played well, and obviously an improvement in what we've seen the majority of the time.
 

Bulletspur

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Fair enough. I really don’t think it was just a case of ‘misplacing a couple of passes’ though. I can only give my opinion on what I saw. Despite what you say, I genuinely can’t help but think that we judge him differently to others because of his previous poor performances. He got a very good ovation when he came off yesterday and I think that’s because the fans, especially the always-demanding away fans, appreciated that he was much better than he has been for us. But I also think that ‘much better’ for Sissoko equals ‘decent enough game’ for most of our other players if that makes sense.

If I knew how to do it I would love to do a highlights reel of his game yesterday, just to show people why I think calls for him being MOTM are odd. There were a good few unforced errors that a better team than West Ham may have taken advantage of. If Winks or Dembele etc had his exact game, I don’t think they’d be getting as much praise. But as I said, overall it’s definitely a step up from his previous games so hopefully he continues that form when he next starts for us. The bottom line is that without his contribution, we wouldn’t have scored our goal so that’s a massive bonus.

He’ll be playing a few times I imagine in the next few weeks with the amount of games we have. Hopefully he’ll get a bit of confidence from this.
You certainly dont talk for me. If Dele Wanyama and co had played the same way against West Ham as Sissoko had, we would be lauding them for a good game, so it should be no different for Sissoko. You are just begrudging him a good game for what ever your reasons are.
 
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bomberH

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Talk for yourself. If Dele Wanyama and co had played the same way against West Ham as Sissoko had, we would be lauding them for a good game, so it should be no different for Sissoko. You are just begrudging him a good game for what ever your reasons are.

*facepalm* I disagree completely. My point actually was that if anyone else had a game like that, they wouldn’t receive half the praise Sissoko got. Everyone expects very good things from Dele etc, nobody expects much from Sissoko.

Why did you bold the bit about poor previous performances? You think his performances since he’s been with us have been good overall? Honestly? Name me one Spurs player who has been poorer for us out of the current squad.

And what do you mean ‘whatever your reasons are’? What other reason would I have except I think he’s a poor player? I said he had a decent game, especially by his standards, I just didn’t think he was anywhere near MOTM. If you think he was, and you’re not basing it on the fact it’s Sissoko, then I guess we have different ideas on what a good player is. I think Lloris, Lamela, Winks, Lucas, Toby and Dier all had a better game than Sissoko, hence why I don’t think he should’ve been in the running for MOTM. That’s quite simple to understand. Do you think he was better than any of the above?

I feel like I have to explain this every time I talk about Sissoko.... I have absolutely nothing against him as a person or anything like that. I appreciate his effort but I just happen to think he’s a poor player with limited ability. Even most of the fans sticking up for Sissoko in his thread agree that he’s limited! His overall performances for us and Newcastle have done nothing to make me change my mind. Regardless, i’d like nothing more than for him to succeed for us because that means the team benefits,


So.... questions.... just so you haven’t forgotten what they are....

Do you think Sissoko had a better game than the players I mentioned above?

Do you think his performances for us have been of an acceptable standard since he’s joined us?

What did you mean by ‘whatever your reasons are’?

Thanks ?
 
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