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Yves Bissouma continues to struggle for Tottenham
National World - LocalTV
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18/03/2025
A look at the Mali international and his downfall this season.
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Yeah, let's just look at one player in Vespersuma. Now, obviously, he came in and obviously,
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you touched on it there, he was really stale in Angie's plans, in Angie's team. He could
00:14
receive the ball really well. He made the team tick from back to front when he first
00:19
came in and then slowly he's petered out. He's almost at 100 games for Spurs, but if
00:24
you look across them, it's been pretty abysmal this season, especially the last few months.
00:29
He's really suffered. He's really going through a tough patch personally as a player. How
00:34
do you think he gets back to his best? Can you see him getting there? He's only 28 years
00:37
of age. He's still got a lot of football to play if he can at the top, want to be at the
00:43
highest level, but it's been a real poor season for him by his standards.
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Yeah, I mean, you look at Vespersuma at Brighton and when Spurs brought him in, you're thinking,
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wow, what a signing. This is a really, really good deal for Spurs. Not a huge amount of
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money, super talent, ball-carrying midfielder, working those tight spaces, got a brilliant
01:04
engine on him and it's just never worked out for him at Spurs. You don't know what's going
01:10
on off the pitch and any personal issues. Obviously, we can't comment on any of that
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sort of thing, but it looks to me from the outside in, in terms of his discipline, there's
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an issue there. Mentality, I think, is another thing and I think you could probably level
01:23
that at several Spurs players. It's almost like when they get to Spurs, they get too
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comfortable. It's like the pipe and slippers job. You're at Spurs, nice and comfy, really
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nice stadium to play in every week, lovely training ground, but actually on the pitch,
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it doesn't really matter. Nobody stands up to be countered. They all find it easier to
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go and hide and you can see that. When Vicario's got the ball at the back, we're trying to
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play out from the back, which is another thing that we just play and play and play. It's
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totally in the way of the manager, but the options he's got to pass the ball out from
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the back. Vespersuma was there initially when we first started with Ange and he'd be taking
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the ball off the centre-halves and he could lay it off back to start the build-up play.
02:02
Now there's just nobody and there's no options and that's why we keep losing the ball. You
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saw the first goal against Fulham, throw-out to Odubu, he's got three players around him,
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not one person shows for him for the ball and he ends up losing it and it costs us a
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goal and you could level that confidence, form, fitness, but ultimately, is it a lack
02:20
of desire? Is it a lack of mentality? I just don't see Vespersuma ever shining in a Spurs
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show. He's had flashes under Ange, a little bit under Ryan Mason, didn't really play under
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Antonio Conte, he didn't fancy him. Again, a really, really positive on-paper signing
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for Spurs that's just turned into a real disappointment and I hope he can get back to the levels because
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he's a terrific player, he's clearly a talent, but sadly I don't think that's going to be
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in a Spurs show now and I can see him moving on during the summer.
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