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Fair enough and I agree he deserves a little slack. I would be grateful though if you would give an example of what might have happened behind the scenes that saw him continuing with Dele on the left of a three man midfield. I believe he should have made a better judgement three or four games ago.
I would imagine a lot of it came down to fitness, effort, application in training. I assume the replacement personnel wise would have to be one of GLC or NDombele being as they are the two you mention? MD spent the entire Summer saying he wanted to leave and turned up at pre season unfit and out of shape. GLC has had minor injuries and then fucked off to S.A and had to quarantine on his return missing games. Then factor in the amount everyone shouting about our running stats as a team(which the club will have been more than aware of) and look at which player had been covering the most ground....Dele! The only other real option then was Winks, and well eughh.
MD now looks like he's close to full fitness now, and GLC has had a few more training sessions and minutes under his belt.
None of this even takes into account any political motivations or squad chemistry reasons that could well have affected the decision. Nuno has only known the players a couple of months, so I don't expect him to have a full grasp of the players yet. If Dele had been the one impressing in training while the other two weren't it's hardly a surprise he'd go with Dele.