Tottenham Hotspur defender Kyle Walker-Peters has only played nine times in all competitions this season.
Mauricio Pochettino has surely delivered a hammer blow to Kyle Walker-Peters’ Tottenham Hotspur career by suggesting Juan Foyth is going to play more regularly at right-back.
Foyth started at right-back for Spurs against Manchester City, and was again picked to perform there against West Ham United at the weekend.
On both occasions Walker-Peters was overlooked, and the Spurs boss’s comments are hardly encouraging for the academy graduate.
“I think he was very good,” Pochettino said to Football London. “He played so well. The signal that he’s giving us in the training sessions, you can see and you can feel and you can trust him in that position.”
It was one thing for Walker-Peters to be missing out on playing for Tottenham to Serge Aurier and Kieran Trippier, but to lose out to Foyth is another matter entirely.
Foyth is a year younger than Walker-Peters, and is not even a natural in the position.
If Pochettino is favouring converting a centre-back over playing Walker-Peters it is very hard to see how the 22-year-old Spurs defender will ever make the grade.
And it may be that Walker-Peters has to move on now, for the good of his career, as it is very hard to see him getting much game time at Tottenham.
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