Moussa Sissoko (the new Pirlo)

60 times and counting.

 

May be we don't get the full £30m from Ashley until he has played a certain number of games and Levy is making Poch play him to get the money

 

Problem is, I can't see any potential in him as a player in terms of the shinning it and poor control. As a goal scoring threat, he's no better than David Batty. Sure he's strong and fast but with no control. As someone stated above, he gets minutes when first choice players aren't available. The day we need to play Sissoko against a top four rival, we might as well give them an extra man.

 

Yet he was a regular in the side that made the last EC final.

 

Come on man. You’re all for being funny about something when you feel like it.

This is Moussa’s 3rd season now. 5 transfer windows in. For it to be ‘very clearly’ a mistake that he’s kept a good squad player here as a...good squad player...is nonsense.

It’s the right move. Of course if he can play someone he can trust in the system but also expect more from on the ball, he will play them. As I acknowledge in this thread. But he had Dembele and he didn’t play him this weekend. If Sissoko was *that* bad, he’d play Dembele because there’s no way he’d risk having this French donkey in the team. Even if Dembele is only just back from holiday. Because the benefit of playing Dembele vs Sissoko would be so great, considering how bad Sissoko supposedly is.

 

Is Sissoko a shi1 Mendy?

 

It really is the height of arrogance to assume it is a poor appeal to authority to assume an elite coach has backed the same player for 3 years now, rather than accepting to the fact you have maybe exaggerated your criticism of the player.

 

...where he played a total of 460 minutes in the Premier League over 2 seasons. Try again?

 

He played 14 league games in two years.

 

What we are looking for as comparison for Sir Alex is a player whom he matched his record signing fee for who played in 75% of eligible matches.

 

The way he has to prove his decision making to you is by delivering results. Which he does, by over achieving every season he’s been here, and Sissoko’s played in a fair few of those marches.

He’s also tried to explain, but as you wrote it off with ‘something something transition’ you probably wouldn’t understand the explanation if he ever had the opportunity to give it to you in more detail. Sometimes coaches make mistakes but quite often fans get confused by what is going on in the game when they don’t understand it / don’t have all the info.

 

Berbatov maybe?

 

He signed a young player with potential, who didn’t fulfill it, and was then sold. It is in no way the same thing. You must know this.

We can easily loan him out. We have shown with Janssen that we don’t care about telling every other club that a player has absolutely no future with us, and that he isn’t part of the squad. If Sissoko was that bad he’d be ostracised in the same way. And we’d get him to build back his value by playing first team football somewhere else.