Can someone explain why his name gets sung the most over the last 18 months, but stalwarts like Jan, Toby, even Eriksen in his prime didnt even get a song?
Eriksen has/had a song and jan and Toby sort of had a song but I imagine it’s mainly because it’s not hard to sign ‘oh Moussa sissoko’Can someone explain why his name gets sung the most over the last 18 months, but stalwarts like Jan, Toby, even Eriksen in his prime didnt even get a song?
And if you think back to when we started playing poor this guy was in the team every week. ?If you think sissoko is not part of our problems I really don’t know what you are watching. Effort doesn’t = quality
Moussa's Tweet after the game.
Doesn't anyone else find it unintentionally candid?
I agree completely; only problem is due to poor signings or lack of, we have no one who can win the ball back with energy and strength like the does...Every other player has been rotated over the last year...except Sissoko. We've been pants for the last year. This is not a coincidence. Remember players like Teddy, Modric, Moose who made the players around them look good. Sissoko, sadly, is the opposite. 9 out of 10 passes are backwards, which:-
At 52 minutes v. Red Star, the ball was cleared from one of our corners to Sissoko defending in the centre circle. With every outfield player in front of him, he looked for the back pass. Sanchez was first player back, and once he was safely behind Sissoko, MS passed to him! Today, our midfield looked so much better with MS on the wing, but wingers need to contribute goals and we all know that's never going to happen. Today at 89min, the ball cam to him in the penalty area and he didn't move a single muscle.
- places pressure on the back 4
- kills our passing out from the back game.
- denies ball to our forwards
- forward balls have to be long, or down the wings which makes life easier for the opposition because they don't need to defend midfield
- when the forward ball finally arrives, the defence has had 10 extra seconds to organise
I'll go as far as to say that playing Sissoko is the equivalent of playing with 10 men. Poch needs to drop him back to being a squad player in order to get us back to our 2018 level, before it's too late.
I agree completely; only problem is due to poor signings or lack of, we have no one who can win the ball back with energy and strength like the does...
Thing is both are Dire and Wanyama lack that energy and I feel that winks just isn't as solid as him; he loses the ball a lot deeper and Sissoko has been a bit more press resistant recently. He's a 5/10 player in that position, and what we need to do is buy. I have even considered Foyth there; I feel he would be quality as a ball playing DM.I fully agree that his strength is his strength, but if we're really at the level of using 1/10th of our outfield quota for a big guy whose only ability is to run around bumping into people, then we don't deserve a PL place, let alone a CL place.
Sissoko is not a great technical tackler and what good does winning the ball do if it he then fails to do anything constructive with it. Count how many passes get made before the ball is coming straight back at us. Compare with Newdembele who not only wins the ball, but is immediately showing the ambition for a run or forward pass.
Winks isn't as big or strong, but he's a much better tackler and covers a lot more ground than Sissoko. Dier and Wanyama are both better holding DMs.
I think he's definitely worth a try. He'd have to cut out his tendency to overplay in dangerous areas but he has a Dembele-esque ability to glide past players with the drop of a shoulder, and he's a far better, more creative passer than either Sissoko or Winks. At this point we don't have anything to lose, and if Dier could be converted into a DM, why not Foyth?Thing is both are Dire and Wanyama lack that energy and I feel that winks just isn't as solid as him; he loses the ball a lot deeper and Sissoko has been a bit more press resistant recently. He's a 5/10 player in that position, and what we need to do is buy. I have even considered Foyth there; I feel he would be quality as a ball playing DM.