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Ally mentions Dele, Aurier, Winks, Dier (said Mourinho was especially upset with him after Liverpool), Toby & Rose as players that Mourinho has pushed to the side a bit. He goes on to say those are a lot of very popular figures in the dressing room and other players will take notice to that.
This is our issue. Some of our worst players are also some of our core players. The HG contingent if you will.
Dele - Understand the clamour for him going back into the side considering we can't score, but a classic case of a player getting better than he really is when he is out of the team. He was poor for two years before this, is a bad trainer and thinks he is better than he is. Alli under performed under Poch too for a considerable period let's not forget.
Winks - 25 years old. Nothing to say other than he is not good enough, not even close.
Dier - 27 and will never be a top CB, makes too many mistakes.
Aurier - Had a good season relatively but is a loose cannon and probably wants out.
Rose - meh
Toby - still useful but declining fast
Our best players are Lloris, Reguilon, PEH, Ndombele, GLC, Son, Kane (I'll add Bergs / Rodon as they have potential). We need to build around them, the rest really should be up for sale. Only one out of our first choice backline are good enough. That is a seriously bad state of affairs.
It doesn't matter who we bring in as a new manager. Jose said in his last PC post Brighton that, after it was put to him by a journalist that with the players still making so many mistakes, it's got to the point where you just have to say the players aren't good enough? Jose basically agreed with him without saying it. Dier will never stop making mistakes, he isn't going to turn into John Terry suddenly under any manager. Winks will never become a dominant ball playing dynamic CM player. We need to move on the squad filler and replace with young talented players, and we also need to sign defenders, good ones.
I am still Jose out as the tactics and style of play have been awful, but the fault likes in many places, recruitment / squad building, Jose, Levy for thinking players like Alli are worth keeping instead of backing his manager. I think multiple people are responsible. What worries me is does Levy hold players like Dier, Winks, Alli etc in too high regard?
The AON doc showed he really is quite clueless about judging footballers. If we have a chairman with a strong grip on the club, almost DOF like if you will, thinking players are better than they are, and a manager like Jose who thinks those same players are not good enough, you can see where we have issues. The leadership needs to come from Levy, he needs to be told from someone he will listen to or realise that in fact half our squad really aren't at the required standard. The Alli situation worries me because for all intents and purposes the club should have got rid, a forward planning club who were progressing should have made that decision to move on, and we didn't...why?