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Moussa Sissoko

JerusalemMan said:
*phone rings*
Ashley: Hello
Levy: Hello Mike
Ashley: Dammit
Levy: £16 million
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Exactly. And why not? 30 fuking million! Crazy money.

Sissoko to Spurs



Phil McNulty

BBC Sport chief football writer

Posted at22:41
It looks like Moussa Sissoko will go to Tottenham. Everton had agreed a £30m fee, they had everything ready, a plane to fly him up, they then couldn't get hold of him to confirm the arrangements. In the meantime Daniel Levy came in at the last minute and agreed the same fee. Now Sissoko has one choice after Everton withdrew their interest.
 
fudge. I like that Levy has decided to open his wallet and back Poch but why him of all the players we were after? Surely for that money we could have got someone....you know....good.
 
glorygloryeze said:
I honestly think Levy has caved in here; perhaps Mitchell leaving IS a factor and he felt he had to be seen to back Poch after not paying similar fees for Batshuayi and Wijnaldum..
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I think it's great that Levy has paid up. He's not cutting off his nose.

With the others, we clearly didn't think Bat was worth it when we could get Vincent for half, so we moved on quickly. And were we ever really in for Winjaldum? He doesn't seem to fill any obvious gap...Maybe as a Dembele option but not at that price, so we probably moved on quickly again.
 
glorygloryeze said:
I honestly think Levy has caved in here; perhaps Mitchell leaving IS a factor and he felt he had to be seen to back Poch after not paying similar fees for Batshuayi and Wijnaldum..
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Let's not forget in both the above cases the wage demands were outside of our pay structure. Even if Levy was willing to pay record transfer fees, breaking our wage structure for one new player would have much wider knock-on effects on the rest of the squad. I am assuming Sissoko is more reasonable in his wage demands.

Levy came under much criticism last year for not going the extra mile and meeting WBA's asking price for the manager's choice of Berahino. Now he has gone the extra mile for (presumably) the manager's choice of Sissoko, he has to be given some credit shirley?.
 
Libero said:
Still think that we should have really gone in for a statement signing earlier in the window though if we have that money to spend. Don't see why we couldn't perhaps have gone in with a decent offer for the likes of Isco, Meyer, Coric, Mane etc.
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Isco didn't want to leave Madrid.
Meyer didn't want to leave Schalke
Coric is young and inexperienced not exactly a statement signing.
Mane good player but he can be inconsistent.

Like you I'd of loved a big signing, but perhaps the opportunity just wasn't there. Sissoko offers us something I think the side needs and makes the whole team a stronger unit.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
I think it's great that Levy has paid up. He's not cutting off his nose.

With the others, we clearly didn't think Bat was worth it when we could get Vincent for half, so we moved on quickly. And were we ever really in for Winjaldum? He doesn't seem to fill any obvious gap...Maybe as a Dembele option but not at that price, so we probably moved on quickly again.
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Did you not see the article at the weekend where he said he met Pochettino at his house???
 
People against Moussa, think about how Poch plays, think about what he's said he needs, and then think about how many quality players out there there are that can do it...press hard and play with pace and dribble. It's a rare skill set. We got someone that he wanted. How he played for Saudi Sportswashing Machine in a different system under inferior managers is irrelevant.
 
NorwegianSpursFan said:
Saudi Sportswashing Machine probably owe us some money from townsend and yedlin so i suppose that might be part of the reason levy stumped up. The numbers doesen't look quite as bad when you look at it that way?
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All our incoming signings are done cash up front, we don't pay in instillments. Mike Ashley policy.
 
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