Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara thinks Spurs need to “get rid” of Eric Dier and Davinson Sanchez as it’s “one of the worst partnerships in the Premier League”.
Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at West Ham was their fifth in the last six Premier League games and severely dented hopes of a top-four finish, with the fourth-placed Hammers now nine points ahead of Spurs.
Tottenham appear a shadow of the side that topped the table in mid-December and Jose Mourinho is in one of the worst spells of his long managerial career.
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Things might have been different at the London Stadium had Gareth Bale’s fierce strike gone in instead of hitting the crossbar or Son Heung-min’s deflected effort not looped on to the post.
But O’Hara thinks Spurs will “end up trophyless again” this season and puts a lot of the blame down to their centre-back pairing.
“It’s getting embarrassing, isn’t it,” O’Hara told talkSPORT. “We should be turning West Ham over!
“I don’t think we’re going to win anything this season, I think we’ll end up trophyless again, I really do.
“I look at the team and the back-four is just an absolute shambles. I don’t know why Jose keeps playing [Davinson] Sanchez and [Eric] Dier because it’s probably one of the worst partnerships in the Premier League!
“[Japhet] Tanganga plays right-back, but he takes him off and puts [Matt] Doherty there, he’s played [Moussa] Sissoko at right-back, [Serge] Aurier, he just doesn’t know the team.
“The only player you’d say deserves to play in that back-four is [Sergio] Reguilon, I really like him, he’s decent.”
On how Mourinho should go about solving the issue with his centre-backs, O’Hara added: “Get rid of them!
“Dier is an alright player but as a centre-half he just looks lost around the box.
“In my opinion he needs to be dropped. I would play Tanganga and Ben Davies at centre-half, play Reguilon on the left and Doherty at right-back.
“Ben Davies is decent on the ball and has got pace, Tanganaga has got pace as well and I think that’s the biggest thing we lack at the back, pace, because we just get exposed all the time.”
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