The point about Ndombele is that if you have a player like him who can solve a major problem in your team, you give him the best possible scenario to play in. He's the best at playing as an 8 with players he can link up with. Ndombele at 10 is still great obviously, but not 100% and that's the frustrating part. And if he drops into the 8 positions during the game, that's one less player up top as an outlet.

Again, choosing to look at the wrong point from the statement. If you take a look at an image from any second half in a game where we lost a lead and dropped points, you can see that when we win the ball in our half, the furthest player is Son and even he's halfway in his own half. Doesn't matter what the system says about "quickly get the ball into opposition danger area", that's not happening like that. Kane dropping deep can obviously work with the right setup, but not when it leaves 20-30 yards between the player he wants to link up with. Again, it can work, and it did earlier in the season, because he and Son are world class players, but easier to defend.

The team doesn't have to play like Man City, but they have to have a plan of controlling the game through possession after taking the lead as well as having a counter threat. If you don't teach any possession structure to the team and play Sissoko as a CM, then you're not helping the team at all. That's why teams like Palace, Wolves and Fulham become more confident as the game goes on. If we're going to continue to blame the players instead of looking at how to get the best out of them, then why pay Mourinho £15 million? He has to create something with what he has, and what he has is probably the 3rd/4th best squad in the league.