Chris Waddle has revealed that ‘something has to be done’ about Tottenham Hotspur right-back Serge Aurier.
The Ivory Coast international had a poor performance in midweek as Spurs were thumped 3-1 away at Sheffield United.
Aurier was a rarely-used figure by former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, but his successor Jose Mourinho is a much bigger fan of the defender – a £23 million signing from Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.
According to Sky Sports, Aurier is a wanted man by Monaco this summer.
Even aside from Aurier, Mourinho has major problems at right-back and revealed this week that midfielders Gedson Fernandes and Oliver Skipp had been playing there in training.
Waddle told The Racing Post: “Something has to be done at right-back because Serge Aurier is just not the answer.
“Ok, he offers a good attacking outlet down the right but a defender needs to defend and any time I see him I just think a calamitous mistake is never far away. Good players are great decision-makers and his choices are sometimes terrible. You just know a handball or a free kick given away in a dangerous area is just around the corner.”
Waddle definitely has a point in saying that a mistake is never too far away from Aurier, and if fans know that, then so do his team-mates and it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
He can have stormers every so often, but for the most part he’s a fairly bog-standard defender and if Tottenham want to win things, they won’t do so with that sort of unreliability in defence.
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