After a disappointing defeat in midweek, Antonio Conte's Tottenham Hotspur side once again failed to stake a claim on a top-four place with another lacklustre performance on Sunday, with Spurs losing out 2-0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Following the match, the 52-year-old manager admitted that, on current form, it will be a near-impossible task for Tottenham to qualify for Champions League football next season, stating: "When you lose two games at home and against Chelsea - for a team that wants to qualify for the Champions League, it's impossible to happen.

"We know we have to fight to build something important with the situation but it's important to know the situation. Maybe our fans shouldn't be disappointed with the defeat - instead, they should try and push us and stay behind us."

However, aside from Spurs fans getting behind their team, there are also a number of tangible changes that could be made on the part of the Italian which could help to improve Tottenham's overall level of performance - one of which would undoubtedly be the dropping of Davinson Sanchez.

Sanchez must never play for Conte again

Having joined Spurs in what was a club-record £42m deal back in the summer of 2017, four and a half years on, the 25-year-old is not even one of the best centre-backs at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, let alone "one of the best centre-backs in the world" - as Mauricio Pochettino had predicted the Colombia international would become.

Indeed, after making £27m-rated defender has since seen his game time generally become more limited with each passing season - featuring in just 18 league fixtures last term.

And, considering just how poor the £65k-per-week "liability" - in the words of Kenny Cunningham - has been in recent weeks, it is not difficult to see why Sanchez is not considered a nailed-on starter in North London.

Indeed, the Evening Standard's Dan Kilpatrick awarded the centre-back a four in his player ratings in the 3-2 loss against Southampton on Wednesday, writing that the 25-year-old was "desperately shaky," produced "wobble after wobble" and was "dragged out of position for Saints' first goal."

The defender earned a similar review for his display against Wolves, once again being handed an extremely disappointing four in Kilpatrick's ratings, with the journalist stating of the Colombian: "Lucky to keep his place after Wednesday's horror-show against Southampton and no better here. What has Joe Rodon got to do to get a chance?"

As Kilpatrick suggests, after two performances that could well have cost his side dearly in the top-four race, it would appear an extremely sensible move for Conte to replace Sanchez with Rodon going forwards.

And, with the 25-year-old who Jamie O'Hara recently labelled "embarrassing" having been linked with a move away from the club last summer, should Rodon impress upon a potential step up to the first team, it would also seem a wise move for Spurs to finally cut their losses on the defender at the end of the season - as Sanchez has quite clearly proven that he is not of the standard required for Tottenham - leading us to believe the centre-back who Darren Bent claimed makes "mistake after mistake" must not play for Conte again.

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