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Mauricio Pochettino has told £30m record signing Moussa Sissoko he does not deserve his place in the team.

Pochettino ruthlessly dumped Sissoko from his squad after a midweek bust-up which left the Tottenham boss fuming with the France midfielder.

Sissoko claimed Tottenham should abandon Wembley after crashing out of the Champions League which angered Pochettino who told him to “do his talking on the pitch.”

Then four days later, Sissoko was left at home and did not even make the bench for Tottenham’s London derby at Chelsea. Sissoko has been left devastated and angry by the snub.

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Pochettino is seething with Sissoko and says he must do more in training to show that he is worth his place after failing to make an impact since his arrival on transfer deadline day.

Angry Poch has now told former Newcastle midfielder Sissoko that he is behind the likes of Vincent Janssen and Josh Onomah and admitted he has not been the signing he expected.

Pochettino said: “Football is not about money. It is about you being better, and that you show on the training ground that you are better than another team-mate and that you deserve to be involved or not.

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“In my opinion, I need to take the decisions and I believe that the players that started in the game and the players on the bench deserved to be involved in the game. There's nothing else to find [read into] in it.

“It’s not frustrating for me. It's about football. We can see in football different things that happen. You sign a player and then you expect something, and you don't find what you expected.

“If another deserved to be involved, like maybe Josh Onomah or maybe Janssen. Why, because we pay money, do they deserve to play?

"Of course (he needs to learn). He needs to work hard and to show in future that he deserves to be on the team.”