Sissoko doesn't 'deserve' a place in the team

[Gaz_Gammon]

Spurs paid £30million to sign the midfielder from Newcastle.




30..........million......

Read the full article at Daily Mail

 

[Danners9]

Same applies to every player though, as he makes clear - and has done repeatedly. In this instance it's Sissoko. Before it has been other players. Wimmer recently when CCV was selected on the bench instead.

It's not really a story, despite the attempts to make it one. All of them need to perform or they don't play,

There are other quotes that seem to be missing:

"Football is not about money. It is about players being better and that they show on the training ground that they are better than another team-mate and that they deserve to be involved or not," he told UK newspapers.

"In my opinion, I need to take the decisions and I believe that the players that started in the game and the players on the bench deserved to be involved in the game.

"There's nothing else to it."

(http://uk.soccerway.com/news/2016/November/28/pochettino-sissoko-doesnt-deserve-spot/n886148/)

Instead they use comments from January!

What is a story is how much he cost compared to how average he has been - and why. Is he always average? are Spurs using him wrong? is it just a poor signing?

It certainly wasn't smart to comment on club business after the Monaco game though... 'prickly response' from Poch, apparently.

 

[Database]

Disgrace. Poch doing the same thing season after season. Wanted more power (Mitchell out, Head Coach -> Manager) and now he should be held responsible for his errors.

Sissoko doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

 

[rc1]

If we could get 15 mill for him in January we should let him go. Terrible desperation signing and will never make it at Spurs. Onomah would have been able to offer the same return if not more, should have saved the money.

 

[yid-down-under]

Regardless of the context he's right. Sissoko is not a £30m player and I still can't understand why we signed him for that price as he was woeful for the barcodes last season.

Would have preferred to have saved the coin and played onomah more

 

[Azazello]

 

[Japhet]

I never understood why we signed him although it was said to be a heavily structured deal with lots of loopholes. Regardless of that, I don't think he's had much of a chance yet and certainly doesn't deserve the vitriol he's getting on here. We have a whole bunch of players who are way off form and MS is just one of them.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Regardless of the context he's right. Sissoko is not a £30m player and I still can't understand why we signed him for that price as he was woeful for the barcodes last season.

Would have preferred to have saved the coin and played onomah more

We signed him for that much because that's what Newcastle demanded for him, and because Pochettino supposedly really wanted him.

This is the killer line for me though 'There's nothing else to find in it. It is about football. Different things happen. You sign a player and then you expect something, and you don't find what you expected.'

Sorry Mo Po, but you were warned by many...

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Sadly the way football works means Sissoko won't be afforded the time to prove people wrong.
His poor performances can cost a team games and that can't be allowed to happen.

Same goes for managers and it's not the wrong thing. There's enormous money and the future of the clubs at stake and managers can't be given too long to turn things around before it's too late*

*applies to every manager, I'm not suddenly suggesting poch out.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

We signed him for that much because that's what Newcastle demanded for him, and because Pochettino supposedly really wanted him.

So you know what its for, in the hope that it sinks in

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Disgrace. Poch doing the same thing season after season. Wanted more power (Mitchell out, Head Coach -> Manager) and now he should be held responsible for his errors.

Sissoko doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

Nice theory. If only any of it were true. I bet you've got the 'answers' to all sorts of mysteries rattling around in your noggin

 

[Sweetsman]

Disgrace. Poch doing the same thing season after season. Wanted more power (Mitchell out, Head Coach -> Manager) and now he should be held responsible for his errors.

Sissoko doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

Sarcasm?

 

[Sweetsman]

If we could get 15 mill for him in January we should let him go. Terrible desperation signing and will never make it at Spurs. Onomah would have been able to offer the same return if not more, should have saved the money.

Is that the same Onomah people were slating?

 

[rc1]

Might be but I've never slated him

 

[Sweetsman]

Disgrace. Poch doing the same thing season after season. Wanted more power (Mitchell out, Head Coach -> Manager) and now he should be held responsible for his errors.

Sissoko doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

So, you don't have the excuse of being sarcastic? How should Poch be held responsible for his errors and what are these exactly?

 

[Sweetsman]

Sadly the way football works means Sissoko won't be afforded the time to prove people wrong.
His poor performances can cost a team games and that can't be allowed to happen.

Same goes for managers and it's not the wrong thing. There's enormous money and the future of the clubs at stake and managers can't be given too long to turn things around before it's too late*

*applies to every manager, I'm not suddenly suggesting poch out.

It would be inane to sack a manager on the basis of one player. Even the greatest managers make mistakes with the players they bought. Veron wasn't an overwhelming success at United despite being world class. No one is blaming Klopp for his treatment of Sakho.

 

[shelfboy68]

I never understood why we signed him although it was said to be a heavily structured deal with lots of loopholes. Regardless of that, I don't think he's had much of a chance yet and certainly doesn't deserve the vitriol he's getting on here. We have a whole bunch of players who are way off form and MS is just one of them.

Yes but at least one of the loopholes suggested he could play football.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

It would be inane to sack a manager on the basis of one player. Even the greatest managers make mistakes with the players they bought. Veron wasn't an overwhelming success at United despite being world class. No one is blaming Klopp for his treatment of Sakho.

Not what I meant.
Players can't keep playing if it hurts the team.
Managers can't keep managing if it hurts the team.

No one can be afforded too much time anymore.

 

[Westmorland]

Spurs paid £30million to sign the midfielder from Newcastle.




30..........million......

Read the full article at Daily Mail

If we could get 15 mill for him in January we should let him go. Terrible desperation signing and will never make it at Spurs. Onomah would have been able to offer the same return if not more, should have saved the money.

We constantly read that we paid 30m. It's a good story from Newcastle point of view but I cannot believe levy would commit to that sort of money for a player like sissoko in the last hours of the window. More likely that it is 6m per year for 5 years . Will prob be gone by end of next season or poss earlier so minimal risk involved. God knows why we bought him. Must have been desperate

 

[ginola007]

Regardless of the context he's right. Sissoko is not a £30m player and I still can't understand why we signed him for that price as he was woeful for the barcodes last season.

Would have preferred to have saved the coin and played onomah more

Hindsight is 20/20, to be fair. At least we only have one player who we expected "something, but you don't find what you expected." Man U, for instance, have Pogba, Slatan, Darmian, Shaw, Mikhitaryan, Scheiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Depay, Rojo and Martial.
It is naive to think every player we sign has the same impact as Alderweireld or Dalli. It would be nice but it's not reality.