He's no legend that's for sure but I think he qualifies as a hero. As JJ points out if only for his 2006 FA cup performance (And Barca)
Hero or Zero #11 Momo Sissoko
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bingo - there is a difference between hero and legend.
grow up - play the ball, not the man.
believe it or not there is more to life than 6cm, it's true! now run along.
believe it or not, but posting on a forum is not akin to childish banter in the play ground - if your internet key board warrior persona must get a kick out of being the 'last one' to post, then pls by all means reply to this post if its that important to you: call me a whopper again and get some cheap thrills, and go to bed feeling smug.
nah i thought you'd be picking up on the IT crowd style error
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I think the greater likelihood is that they considered all his performances rather than a handful in isolation. He certainly bossed a few games for us, but more often than not, he looked like an athlete rather than a footballer. I think his injury saved his reputation if anything, because without it, he wouldn't have had an excuse for not being good enough.
I respect that view but I don't agree with it. At his best he plainly was good enough in that destroying role (and would have been tailor-made for it in Rodgers' system as we press so high up the pitch). Besides, even had I agreed with you overall, his performances in that Cup Final and against Barca would IMHO have removed him totally from the running for a "zero" tag.
I think we are remembering different players here, Momo was perhaps the worst passer of the ball I can remember playing for us, he wouldnt have gotten anywhere near Rodgers team
My take on Momo Sissoko is this: we loved him because he was a great tackler. How he did is was a bit mysterious. Perhaps it is better not to know. It was a sort of mysterious mugging that saw Momo coming away with the ball. The downside of Sissoko was that his passing was pretty shit.
For me, Momo was a hero until we signed Mascherano. Here was a new player who tackled just as well as Momo, but was also a reasonable distributor of the ball. Mascherano also had fantastic powers of endurance so that he spent the entire 90 minutes buzzing around like a US Army drone seeking out terrorists.
So Mascher became the new, improved hero. 🙂
For me, Momo was a hero until we signed Mascherano. Here was a new player who tackled just as well as Momo, but was also a reasonable distributor of the ball. Mascherano also had fantastic powers of endurance so that he spent the entire 90 minutes buzzing around like a US Army drone seeking out terrorists.
So Mascher became the new, improved hero. 🙂
Some of that is too indiscriminate. Momo's use of the ball wasn't nearly as bad before his injury as it was afterwards - pre-injury it was on a par with Lucas's AND he was light years better at the defensive stuff, which he did a long way up the pitch, so much so that we used to have debates on here about whether he really was a defensive mid. Let's agree to differ.
Alonso was a hero. Mascherano was a hero. They were great midfielders; they won the ball and passed it to a teammate. They kept the team fluid and progressive. Sissoko was a tragi-comic intermission; he got applause for getting back to where he should have been in the first place in terms of possession. If you cut out all the frenzied chasing to make up for his mistakes you just have a very flawed midfielder who stalled the team whilst he struggled to execute the basics of being a midfielder. You must keep a sense of perspective - if Alonso is a great midfielder, Sissoko, putting any indulgence aside, is so far below that he may as well be a zero.
Comparisons are odorous, my dear sir 😉. Matching up with the like of Mascher or Alonso is going to put most midfielders in the shade. Of course Momo was a far more limited footballer than either, but that far more limited footballer was instrumental in winning us a Cup Final (when all around him were failing to measure up) and in beating modern football's greatest club side on their own onion patch.
Yeah cos he was shite after the eye injury
for all you momo lovers a chance to reminisce
Definitely hero. He was a better passer than Xabi.
Supporting evidence: The 20 yard pass to himself! He wouldn't fit into a Brendan team and Mascherano showed us what a 'proper' DM could do, but hey we brought him for 5 and sold him for 10, everyone's a winner!
Quite a career he's carved for himself, despite obvious frailties in ability with Valencia, Liverpool, Juve and PSG shirts hung on his wall.
Supporting evidence: The 20 yard pass to himself! He wouldn't fit into a Brendan team and Mascherano showed us what a 'proper' DM could do, but hey we brought him for 5 and sold him for 10, everyone's a winner!
Quite a career he's carved for himself, despite obvious frailties in ability with Valencia, Liverpool, Juve and PSG shirts hung on his wall.
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