Alasdair Gold believes that Jose Mourinho’s complaint about Tottenham’s squad management has proven to be correct, with the journalist highlighting the club for their Europa League squad debacle.
Following the departures of Oliver Skipp and Japhet Tanganga, Tottenham only had two club-trained players – Alfie Whiteman and Brandon Austin, neither of whom are exactly Spurs first-team regulars.
Due to not being able to fulfil their quota of club-trained players, Ange Postecoglou had to name two fewer names in his squad than the allotted 25, choosing to leave out Sergio Reguilon and more consequently, Djed Spence, from the Europa League list.
Gold believes that this is an issue that the club should have seen coming, describing the lack of club-trained players as a ‘ridiculous situation’.
The journalist pointed out that this is something Mourinho pointed out during his tenure, with the former Spurs boss questioning the lack of talent in certain age groups.
The journalist said on the Gold and Guest Talk Tottenham podcast: “Spurs stuffing themselves completely by poor squad management, really, over the years of just not having any now outfield senior club-trained players in their squad, which is a ridiculous situation to get yourself in.
“Jose Mourinho pointed out a few years back, didn’t he? He said there was this gap in the players coming through from the academy.
“He was looking down at that point. It was to the likes of Alfie Devine and Dane Scarlett back then who were like, I think they were both sixteen at the time.
“He was saying there was no little kind of middle section coming through. And he’s been proved absolutely right because no one’s come through to fill that void.”
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I do not think you can put the lack of club-trained players down to bad squad planning. Japhet Tanganga and Oliver Skipp wanted to leave and Ange Postecoglou was seemingly happy to let them go.
The issue is that for a long time, the Tottenham academy has not produced players of a high enough calibre.
This is something that the club have successfully addressed over the last few years, with the current Under-21s and Under-18s crop full of fine talents.
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