Arsenal legend Ray Parlour admits he would choose Harry Kane over Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on current form but three Tottenham Hotspur stars have been omitted from his combined XI, speaking to talkSPORT (4 December, 9am).
During their Mauricio Pochettino heyday, Spurs boasted perhaps the finest full-back partnership in the whole of Europe.
The days of Kyle Walker and Danny Rose flying down the flanks in the famous white shirt are long gone now of course but, for the first time since 2017, Tottenham look to be force to be reckoned with out wide again.
£23 million summer signing Reguilon offers the kind of thrust that the steady if unspectacular Ben Davies cannot while the once error-prone Aurier is perhaps the most improved member of Jose Mourinho’s team.
Given the choice, however, Parlour would chose Kieran Tierney and Hector Bellerin over the Spurs duo, while the often-maligned Bernd Leno has been given the nod in goal ahead of the in-form Hugo Lloris.
“I think the goalkeeper is difficult to pick. Lloris or Leno; they’re both very good goalkeepers. Lloris has won a World Cup and has more experience. I’ll go Leno. It’s close though,” Parlour, who spent 12 years with Arsenal between 1992 and 2004, explains.
“I’m gonna go Tierney, on the left. Reguilon has been playing very well though.
“Right-back is difficult. Aurier has been playing better in recent weeks. (But) we’ve got to go Bellerin.”
While many Spurs fans may be left nonplussed by the omissions of Lloris and Reguilon in particular, even the most hard-nosed Arsenal fanatic would struggle to argue that their misfiring captain deserves a place in Parlour’s XI ahead of the irrepressible Harry Kane.
“At the moment, yeah (I’d choose Kane). The form is not very good for Aubameyang. He’s struggling for goals at the moment.”
Aubameyang has not scored a Premier League goal from open play in nine games and around 800 minutes of action.
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