Marseille are keen on signing Moussa Sissoko from Spurs this summer to offer the Frenchman an escape route from his nightmare first season in North London according to the London Evening Standard.
It has been a far from satisfactory debut season at Spurs for Sissoko, who famously turned his phone off to ignore Everton on his way to Tottenham for a medical on transfer deadline day. Spurs fans might be wishing he kept his phone on and was persuaded by the Merseyside club as his performances have been nothing short of disastrous since his big money move.
Daniel Levy forked out £30m last summer to secure a dramatic deadline day signing last summer, and the Frenchman hasn’t looked as if he was worth £30 let alone £30m in his first season. He showed flashes of his talent at Newcastle and at the European Championships in 2016 , but nothing that screams at me ‘I am watching a club record signing’.
Sissoko has clearly lacked the work ethic and arguably the talent to succeed at a club like Spurs, and as a result, made just eight Premier League starts last term, appearing from the bench a further 17 times, providing three assists and not scoring a single goal.
Like me, Sissoko might be glad to hear that Marseille are prepared to offer him an escape route. The Frenchman is keen to put himself back in the plans of French national coach Didier Deschamps ahead of next summer’s World Cup in Russia. The only way he can do this is by playing regular first team football, something he is unlikely to experience at Tottenham.
The French club would like to secure the services of Moussa Sissoko, despite his struggles at Spurs, before the end of next month before the transfer window slams shut. However, it is thought that they would be open to agreeing an initial loan deal with an option to buy, to see if the midfielder can recapture his form in Ligue 1.
I think a move to Marseille would be best for both parties. It would be ludicrous to think that Spurs will get back the £30m that they spent last summer, but some money is better than none as I feel Sissoko has next to nothing to offer to the team in current form. I would personally be glad to see the back of Sissoko if he were to leave the club this summer.
