Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
Sissoko's best ability to date is that of being able to stay injury free. That has been important with all the midfield injuries we've had.
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A positive on Sissoko?
Sissoko's best ability to date is that of being able to stay injury free. That has been important with all the midfield injuries we've had.
Like I said, I suspect that he was the best or only available player to fill an identified gap in the squad and we might have thought that we could get more out of him. Our transfer policy is based around finding rough diamonds and polishing them. They cannot all pay off.
I'd be very concerned if we sent professional scouts to watch Sissoko and they saw anything they could even begin to work with.
I can imagine the kind of player they were looking for when they went to see him, but he simply has too much inertia and not nearly enough skill to be that kind of player. He may be fast in a straight line once he's going, but he can't turn and takes forever to get started. That's ignoring the very obvious technical flaws in his game. He's far to old for us to change his game or to teach him how to play football.
Bentaleb is a punt that didn't come off, Janssen is a punt that didn't come off (yet), Sissoko is just very clearly poor judgement. What concerns me is just how obvious a poor choice he was before the purchase.
A 27 year old with 3 EPL seasons under his belt isn't a potential rough diamond. That's a mid-table journeyman.
A 27 year old with 3 EPL seasons under his belt isn't a potential rough diamond. That's a mid-table journeyman.
West Ham will come knocking now! Nailed on!
If you want to look at expensive failures signings Emirates Marketing Project are your example not to follow, they just have 500m to spend for every 500m of failures.
Chelsea this summer, what a shower they bought.
I think generally as an overall club we have a decent record in the transfer market, I won't attribute it to anyone individually as I think like anything its a collective job, but if you want to even look at the buy low sell high method we have employed we are untouched
Definitely. It's the buy high method we generally fall on our arses.
Our top 10 record signings lists was generally 9 flops (Soldado, Paulinho, Sissoko, Janssen, Bent, Bentley, Rebrov etc) + Modric. The likes of Sanchez, Moura and Aurier have now entered the list, so hopefully they will buck the trend
You are being a little selective there, GB. These are a top 20 record signings
Davinson Sánchez - 40,00 Mill. €
Moussa Sissoko - 35,00 Mill. €
Roberto Soldado - 30,00 Mill. €
Érik Lamela - 30,00 Mill. €
Heung-Min Son - 30,00 Mill. €
Lucas Moura - 28,40 Mill. €
Serge Aurier - 25,00 Mill. €
Darren Bent - 24,75 Mill. €
Vincent Janssen - 22,10 Mill. €
David Bentley - 22,00 Mill. €
Luka Modric - 21,00 Mill. €
Paulinho - 19,73 Mill. €
Mousa Dembélé - 19,00 Mill. €
Sergiy Rebrov - 18,00 Mill. €
Roman Pavlyuchenko - 17,40 Mill. €
Robbie Keane - 16,70 Mill. €
Jermain Defoe - 16,40 Mill. €
Toby Alderweireld - 16,00 Mill. €
Dimitar Berbatov - 15,70 Mill. €
Fernando Llorente - 15,10 Mill. €
This was the list in c.2014 though - where Modric was the only success out of 10. That was before Lamela and Dembele had big renaissances under Poch
Going back four years and excluding anyone that went on the be good, seems a rather selective way of looking at it. Any clubs' list is going to look bad, if you only count the duds.
But it was a big article/discussion point at that moment in time. Here are Spurs' 10 biggest signings and 9 of them were crap.
You are being a little selective there, GB. These are a top 20 record signings
- undecided - Davinson Sánchez - 40,00 Mill. €
- total flop - Moussa Sissoko - 35,00 Mill. €
- failure - Roberto Soldado - 30,00 Mill. €
- ok plus - Érik Lamela - 30,00 Mill. €
- great - Heung-Min Son - 30,00 Mill. €
- undecided - Lucas Moura - 28,40 Mill. €
- undecided - Serge Aurier - 25,00 Mill. €
- flop - Darren Bent - 24,75 Mill. €
- undecided - possible flop - Vincent Janssen - 22,10 Mill. €
- total flop - David Bentley - 22,00 Mill. €
- great - Luka Modric - 21,00 Mill. €
- flop - Paulinho - 19,73 Mill. €
- good - Mousa Dembélé - 19,00 Mill. €
- total flop - Sergiy Rebrov - 18,00 Mill. €
- ok minus - Roman Pavlyuchenko - 17,40 Mill. €
- flop second time - Robbie Keane - 16,70 Mill. €
- ok -Jermain Defoe - 16,40 Mill. €
- great - Toby Alderweireld - 16,00 Mill. €
- great - Dimitar Berbatov - 15,70 Mill. €
- floppish to ok - Fernando Llorente - 15,10 Mill. €
Clearly Poch didn't want Sissoko as he never gets in the match squad.
Clearly Poch is pragmatic and works with the squad he has at his disposal.