Play young kids who will put a shift in, track back, press and fight. That's what Poch did, benching wastes like Adebayor, Paulinho, Capoue, Chiriches et al and barely playing the cheap bargain bin wasters Levy fobbed on him like Stambouli and Fazio.
Or at least, play a formation that allows you to bench as many of them as possible to make it clear they are not of the level to play for Spurs.
Winks has been here 6 years now, lingering like a bad smell through every single manager we've had. He continues to get games. Davies was our backup LB for the vast majority of his time at Spurs - now our first-choice LCB, despite being painfully mediocre.
Sanchez is a brainless bombscare, keeps getting games.
What that tells the whole team, and the academy kids, is that mediocrity is rewarded - you just have to be stubborn and stick around at Spurs, and eventually you will be played because you're a warm body in the role.
That is the only value Sanchez, Dier, Winks and Davies have - mediocre to awful warm bodies who will go through the motions of being good footballers without actually being good.
Again, it baffles me that we went from having these blokes as outcasts or bench warmers at best to key first-teamers. I don't blame Kane for whatever he thinks when he looks around in the dressing room and sees that fall in standards from the days of Toby, Jan, Dembele, Wanyama, Eriksen and so on.
