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Sissoko: I want champions league football (again)

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  1. Heremod

    Heremod Active Member

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    I'm curious to see what Mac does with him.
    Although if someone offered £15m I'd snap their hand off.
     
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  3. Heremod

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    £9m would be good business but £15m would be fantastic business.

    Some clubs in Turkey may pay that sort for him.
     
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  4. Darth Plagueis

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    I hope we all realise the amount of money we get is irrelevant if it's not re-invested. If we get 10m, we need most of that to buy a replacement.
     
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  5. Lord Jonjomort

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    I'd go as low as £10M. I think he's disruptive and unreliable. On his day - few and far between - he's unstoppable. But we need a core of reliably quality and for me there's very little difference between Sissoko and Hatem Ben Arfa.
     
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    Keep him for one season, it's win-win.

    Moussa wins because he'll get the regular football he needs to go to the Euros, we win because he has the potential to be our best player especially now we have a proper, tactically astute manager in charge. If he performs well then chances are the club will too. He can then decide to stay and progress with us or we sell him for 15m plus.

    If he has a poor season we'll still get a minimum of 10m for him. He's the sort of player then when we play well he'll always get positive media. When we play poorly he'll avoid the negative press and it'll be because of the "poor" players he surrounded by. It's exactly how the national media work. If he leaves, which I'm sure he will at some point it will never be for a penny less than 10m in my opinion.
     
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  7. Heremod

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    Ben Arfa is a much better player

    Both though have the character of 14 year old delinquent's.
     
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    Sissoko isn't as good as he thinks he is. He has one unbelievable game every few months but for the rest of the time he is so-so. If someone offers 10 million we should take it [provided the money is re-invested.]
     
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    I think we will see a good season from him purely for the fact that he needs to get into the France team for the Euro Finals as well as increasing his changes of being snapped up by a Champions League club.
     
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    Indifferent about the guy. Probably great when you have a deep squad so you can use him when he is switched on. Certain games he'll dominate. If he is supposed to the jewel in the crown then forget it - inconsistent and not fully committed. He's fairweather unfortunately.
     
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    Just another foreign mercenary using the club to his advantage with no real care about what we achieve as a team, but looking to further his own career and fill his pockets. He can go in my opinion and we can replace him with any of 50 half decent CM that are out there
     
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    If he wants champions league footy..think he will have to turn in more than a ..just, maybe, borderline .. champion league performance more regularly than 20 minutes for some one / two games a season.

    If he went, wouldn't be fussed. (If the money is reinvested of course ...fat chance of that though)
     
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  14. KazakhToon

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    Could we loan him out to a higher-placed club in Europe, and slap a £6m release clause on the agreement?
     
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    Is it wrong that I too want Champions League football again? :angry:
     
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    Let him go for £10m and re-invest in a more consistent player. Plays like he couldn't give a damn, however, if he want CL football you'd think he would at least put the effort in to any interested team.
     
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    Sissoko lacks footballing intelligence he looks confused the first 2 seconds he has the ball.
     
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  19. Rum & Black for 2

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    I'm actually, genuinely surprised that you've said that Mr T.

    He usually doesn't have control of the ball for that length of time.
     
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    Agree with this. Once he does get the ball under control he is a a 'head-down go for goal type of player with little creativity'. Great when he is having a blinder but often ends up losing the ball and leaving supporting players stranded up field' Not sure how well he will adapt to a McLaren style passing game but think if we dont get that inventive midfielder 'a la Cabaye' we are not going to get any better.
     
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