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yido_number1

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I wouldn't know where to find them online, and can't think of them off the top of my head but it was something along the lines of:
'Daniel is telling me we can get Sissoko and thinks I'll be able to improve him. We'll see'.

I'm sorry but I don't believe he would post anything that degrading in a book that Sissoko would read.
 

ToDarrenIsToDo

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I'm sorry but I don't believe he would post anything that degrading in a book that Sissoko would read.

I've got the book right here with me. Pochettino says that Sissoko had a Good World Cup but underwhelmed at Newcastle and that Daniel Levys thought process was that Sissoko is a good player but that Pochettino will make him better to which Mauricio says 'we'll see'
 

BENNO

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If everyone knocking Sissoko (basically every Spurs fan) actually looks at the games he played last season and exactly what was happening at the time he was more involved, you would see that without him we probably wouldn't have finished top 4.

Bold statement ? We went through a period where Wanyama was out, Winks was out, Dembele was crocked and if he played he either didn't last 70 mins or didn't play the following game, and at times Dier was also used as a defender to cover Alderweilds injury. Lamela was still out and no Lucas.

Like him or not, the fact we had Sissoko meant that Dembele could be nursed back to full (ish) fitness,Wanyama and Winks weren't rushed back and still some players could be rested in cup games.

Without him (big, strong,quick experienced midfielder....albeit with the first touch of an arthritic elephant) we'd have had to use a completely untested kid, and anyone who thinks that would have been better is deluded.

Like everyone else i'd rather we had someone better than him, but unlike everyone else i think he was more than useful to have in the squad last season, and given the amount of games he played and how we ultimately performed in league and cup,i'd suggest the facts back that up.
 

mil1lion

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Sissoko was just a last minute signing to try and spare the blushes of Daniel Levy. I just hope we don't end up in the same situation again.
 

Clamour_Kid

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Crystal Palace close to signing one of Zaha's replacements - Michail Antonio from West Ham - various sources on twitter
 

Clamour_Kid

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They've been linked with him for ages, almost certainly has nothing to do with Zaha.

You may well be right. Just thinking that they might want him in first before releasing Zaha. Then they can take the next week to spend the Zaha money (or not).
 

stonebrow

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Surely if we have had a bid accepted & offered the player wages then we should know in a day or so if this deal is going through? I can’t imagine he would need more than a day or two to think it over?
 

S17PUR

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Surely if we have had a bid accepted & offered the player wages then we should know in a day or so if this deal is going through? I can’t imagine he would need more than a day or two to think it over?
It's looking increasingly likely that this information was not reliable - not knocking those that passed it on - but there's too much evidence that suggests this isn't the case. If we'd had a bid accepted and agreed personal terms with Zaha, there is absolutely no way he would have participated in Palace's last friendly.
 

Metalhead

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It's looking increasingly likely that this information was not reliable - not knocking those that passed it on - but there's too much evidence that suggests this isn't the case. If we'd had a bid accepted and agreed personal terms with Zaha, there is absolutely no way he would have participated in Palace's last friendly.
Also, I had a look in the transfer rumours on The Shed End and there was no mention of Zaha that I could see and chelsea were the other club linked in the itk. Not that this is definitive as it could be that they didn't get any itk on zaha.
 

midoNdefoe

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It's looking increasingly likely that this information was not reliable - not knocking those that passed it on - but there's too much evidence that suggests this isn't the case. If we'd had a bid accepted and agreed personal terms with Zaha, there is absolutely no way he would have participated in Palace's last friendly.

If we’d had a bid accepted and agreed personal terms - he would be a spurs player....

What the itk had suggested was that spurs and Chelsea had agreed a rough figure enough to engage with zaha’s people to propose personal terms...

I’m pretty sure this was all explained.

Not sure it’s a good move to be suggesting you’ve worked out an itk was posting false information...
 
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